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Bedelia, do you have any memories of your own childhood? I can remember being called lazy in kindergarten and that was by the students! I got good grades up until the last two years of high school, but I don’t know how many times I had to stay after school in grammar school for not finishing classwork on time. Stupid, lazy, unorganized and daydreamer were the watchwords of my childhood and all of my adult life. (Sigh) I was diagnosed when I was 62(I’m now 64) and went on Ritalin for about a year which really helped. I realized that I’d already had a lot of coping mechanisms in place, but once I realized that they made sense for ME and that they were really imaginative and smart, I stopped feeling lazy and weird and ashamed for not being able to do things like everyone else. I’m off meds now, but things are still slowly getting better. I’m doing the whole omega 3 thing along with diet and exercise and things are going well. You deserve to find out just how good your brain can work. I hope you can get some meds even for just a while. Let us know how things are working out!
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