Re: School – Verbal Abuse by Teachers!

[Anonymous]

These blogs speak for a lot of us ADDers.

I am in my 50’s and was dignosed with ADD about 15 years ago. Yeah, childhood was mostly a nightmare. Add to the undiagnosed ADD; dyslexia and Irline’s, being left-handed, being a girl in the 1960’s, living in poverty, constantly feeling stupid…..

I can’t go back there in my mind anymore. I had to let that go.

Now there is my prescription, an understanding Doctor and websites like this for info. Family and friends are still on the whole pretty non-supportive and make no attempt to understand. I find now that I’m older I can shrug things off as getting older but in my mind, I know that it’s ADD. hey, it’s all about coping. I’m just getting to the point where I start to snap when someone makes fun of me. It’s never funny, always hurtful. A really great response is, “Now why would you say that?” At least it shuts the Jerks up.

The biggest changeover was enrolling in an Ontario college a few years ago. The support and understanding was so wonderful, I cried. I cried for my horrible childhood. I cried for all the misunderstood children. I cried out of gratefullness for people who now understand my disorders.

For the first time ever, I realized that I am not an underachiever, I’m an overachiever!

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