Re: Successful ADDers annoy the h*ll out of me.

[billd]

My humble and public apologies for having taken toofat wrong, or having been irritated with him…….

LOL – guess that’s part of who _I_ am – short with folks who ‘seemingly’ “don’t get it” or “don’t understand”.

My mother warned me I’d be that way – but she gave a different reason after the school psychologist chatted with them.

This medium can be risky, and as folks with ADD – we often know what we WANT to say or type, but have trouble getting it down – or, like Dr. Barkley says, we strangle first……….

I went to only ONE class reunion (the social anxiety thing, my first wife helped to break that a bit with her own personality at such events) – in short, it was like 10 years after – back in 1985. What I found – _I_ was the successful one, I had a job, was married (then) and was happy. Those who were voted most likely to succeed, would be rich with great homes, would be company CEOs, were drunk, sad, divorced, and some unemployed.

My “geek squad” type friends – those of us who were grease monkeys, weekend warriors with the hot cars, very long hair (mine was past shoulders), etc – we were the happiest of the bunch! We were laughing, joking, had decent middle-class type homes (no mansion, but we were happier with our humble homes). Yeah, the class losers were the happy ones, the class elite, not so content.

I’ve never been to one since – but it was a real education – learned more there that one night than much of my high school career.

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