Re: Ritalin

[Anonymous]

I suppose the way I look at is is a bit different… I guess I have made my environment suit me rather than trying to make me suit my environment. I don’t believe that there is anything ‘wrong’ with me, rather that the world I live in doesn’t always fit the way my mind works. I am a true believer in the hunter gene premise, and the idea that ADD’ers are simply a throwback to the paleolithic hunter / gatherer hard wiring system and the world is now run by farmers. (including the educational system) I don’t have a disease and I don’t have a disorder. My problem is that I live in a monetary society that requires / expects me to have a family and a mortgage and responsibilities and therefore a job. And because of these expectations I need to do things I don’t like or am unable to do easily and so I find medication makes me able to sit in front of a screen for 8 hours. Normally my job enables me to engineer and problem solve and meet new people and travel a lot and tinker. Its just that sometimes it can get a bit boring. I love my family and my home and especially my workshop where I ‘live’ sometimes because as my wife tells people, it resembles my brain in there… I can’t imagine life as a farmer, coming home from an accounting job and eating dinner at the table and watching the game and the news and going to bed, only to get up the next day and do it again. I have gathered the materials for a rope bridge across the creek out back, and this next fort in the woods will be even better… But it’ll have to wait until I come back from the road trip to James Bay where my two ADD brothers and I will take a dip no matter if we have to cut a hole in the ice… I am well familiar with how my brain works without meds, and I much prefer it over any altered state, but hey, you do what you gotta do.

Love, Dave

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