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

[Anonymous]

hey billd, i updated my profile and icon. no offense, taken, i’m a girl BTW.

i think what i prize most is honesty. and most times, every time, i meet a fellow ADD or have known someone, it’s because the words seem to fly out and truth does sting a little but that’s what we do. i don’t mind if you speak your mind. i speak my mind most of the time without thinking (insert foot here). but at least it’s honest,, so don’t worry. it beats having to apologize for EVERYTHING. I’ve done that all my life and i recently had an AHA! moment, when I just realized i’m not anyone’s doormat, i’m a person with feelings, i’m worth something….because of my ADHD i do the opposite, my writing though you cannot tell here because i’ve not spell checked or grammar checked or whatever, was always better than my speaking ability. my writing style when i wrote my papers in college, though whenever i did happen to hand them in on time (rarely) were pretty good, i’ve gotten A’s without effort in my written but i’ve almost failed out of school for always being late, forgetting appointments or assignments, too sloppy or careless, just being flighty, people wondered why i was in school in the first place but i wanted to go to college because before me no female in my family did so and i did not want to end up pregnant, barefoot, and married so young in the kitchen. so i accomplished just going to college for my Psychology degree but never did anything with it.

wow! i click on your links and i’m truly impressed.. i think your true creativity and artistry shows in how you restored that chapman engine. it’s AMAZING transformation and GORGEOUS what you did to it. i know you work with the tools you’ve got (no pun intended) but WOW! i would have personally thrown that piece of junk away without realizing it’s true potential.you had the vision of restoring it — that’s where YOUR creativty and genius is at! publishing is also good for you, i see that you are a very knowledgeable and very prolific writer.

thanks for posting on the wellbutrin for me, all i have to do now is fill the prescription that my doctor wrote. i’ve got nothing to lose, will keep you guys posted on if this does anything for me. i hope that it does! in the meantime, i will try to do more homework on ADHD for adults because i do want to improve my lfe.

i’m thinking maybe i could go back to work and try my hand at doing massage, i went to school for that too, really enjoyed that aspect of school, and i didn’t have to write as much, got my Associates Degree in OT but also did NOTHING with that, then I got pregnant, got married and had my son. life just stopped. we moved twice so i did not have time to get my bearings. but now that i’m settled in my new home and this new community i want to kindle my interest in that because as far as the Psych unless i become an “armchair Pyschologist” and start practicing out of my home talking to the people on the internet all day, i feel like that chapter of my life is closed and that i have no ability to go back (i really don’t remember any of the stuff that i studied) to rekindle that fire though i do like talking to people and could do so all day. either online or in person. i just want to feel fulfilled instead of stuck at home just cooking cleaning paying bills. sorry for the way that came out, don’t want to offend anyone here.

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