Re: New Diagnosis = Light at the end of the tunnel

[Anonymous]

Raven darling, no one can remember and organize all things. Even the most organized and together of us (human beings, not ADDers) forget or misplace things. It’s a spectrum, both within ADD and without. You will be able to learn systems that will help you organize and it will get better. When things DO go wrong, as they inevitably do for everyone, you will know why.

The way that I have started to think about it is, once we are diagnosed we are more conscious of whether or not we are succeeding at memory and organization. We are more deliberate in our efforts to make it through the day. The fact that we have to force ourselves to slow down and actually take a look at what we are doing means that in the end we are the ones that prosper. In the event of the inevitable melt down, because we are more aware of our difficulties and more conscious of our efforts we are able to point more easily to the source of the problem and can more quickly and effectively mobilize to correct it. It’s kind of like people who run for health versus professional marathon runners. Everyone learns to run, it’s something we learn as we develop. However, a professional athlete is more conscious and deliberate with the same movements and knows where their errors are in the event of a mistake which costs them the race. Next time they will work to perfect the movements that caused them so much grief last time.

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