Re: OK, I'm having some trouble getting my head around this concept: “Disorder”

[Tiddler]

Disorder is exactly the right word for it in my opinion.

Lots of people without ADHD are divergent thinkers – most gifted people included. Lots of people have flashes of great inspiration. That’s not caused by ADHD either.

I’m glad you see it as an ‘exceptional gift’ but not all of us who have it consider it to be a gift.

I have a highly gifted child. He’s extraordinary in the way he thinks. But that’s no gift either. His unique way of thinking creates problems at school, problems with socialising and problems having to conform. But what is holding him back isn’t the giftedness – its his memory and visual attention problems which are likely to be ADHD based. It is holding back a wonderful, brilliant mind and it’s so hard to see.

I have MENSA level IQ too. Can I use it? Not well. I forget everything I learn. I can’t stay on a project for any length of time. I’ve never been in a job more than 3 years. I have really exciting, interesting, innovative ideas that never go anywhere.

Last week I lost:

My coat

My son’s coat

My new mobile phone

My forms to fill in for help at uni. AGAIN.

and my way home – 5 hours for a 90 minute journey.

I also broke my cashcard (the one I had just replaced because I lost the last one, and my husband’s and locked another because I forgot the pin number.

I could go on but it’s just too depressing to write it all down.

So do call it a gift in your case. I think that’s marvellous. But, just for now, I’d rather not hear people refer to people with adhd as ‘those of us with this exceptional gift’.

This exceptional gift can go fuck right off. I dont’ want it.

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