Re: just lost my job

[Anonymous]

Hey Robert it is like hearing from myself with your last comment, my story is similar but my ADD stories are sad

I was placed in special classes in Grade 2 with children with severe learning disabilities some on the border of retardation ( can we still use that word ) then for the duration of my grade school picked on bullied even by teachers, I was humiliated on a trip to Quebec tied to a change with soiled underwear on my head, I wound up in the eighties full of anger at one point spent a night in jail to calm me down, I went to the top shrink in Toronto at the time Dr. Jerry Cooper he was useless, so I went through majority of my life untreated, then in middle 90’s seen another shrink he though I was depressed and borderline bipolar so they gave anti-depressants, it was towards the 2000’s I started to get tested for ADD got the Ritalin but I never fully understand the true nature of ADD, so off I went to the UK I stop taking my medication I felt the change of scenery would be good I needed a break my mother died in 2000 so 5 years latter I moved to the UK , then in 2009 I got tested again in the UK and it was stated I have ADD, but then in 2008 I found the job I loved and by accident I was posting on Facebook in UK Add groups, just to get more information etc, The company must of found me on facebook because the let me go stating I did not pay attention you know the usually bullshit that companies give you.

Moving forward I am still bouncing through jobs still cannot afford the medication, I would love to have coaching but it is not covered under our Provincial Canadian OHIP plan or my medication, and yes the Dr says maybe you cannot work ,

It is all bullshit to me all I want is a normal life nothing grandiose nothing spectacular, I am not rich I cannot preach the moon about coaching because I cannot afford it.

What this site does not tell you is this unless you have some great plan at work or are making a very good salary or even a actor you will have a tough time coping with this condition, or some would say a gift.

Lets be honest here it sucks to know you have a genetic disorder, in other words the very things that make you what you are is screwed up and you will be passing this mess to your kids and so on and so forth, my son has ADD though the Dr states he does not.

Going back to companies it is just pure arrogance on their part and also are inept Governments here in Canada, I want to work that is all, but I want people to just accept me for who I am, accept my differences , and do not judge me because I have a brain fart, this is the way I was born I cannot get a new brain can I

As you can tell I am bitter, I am bitter on not being able to receive the proper support because of money I am tired of a Country a Government that just does not give a shit.

So I got it out how I feel to the world do I feel good no because I feel like this all the time, bitter angry

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