ask my friends and all of them will agree on at least one thing about me and that is that I am a strange kid. I’ve even had people remark that I seem more like a character sometimes than I do a regular person….I’ve always found that flattering, but it has also put considerable strain on my parents sometimes, as they are concerned with me being a reasonable, successful adult. (I’m 22 now)
My mother and I have always kind of assumed that my father also had it, though he was never diagnosed, and I always looked to him as the only other real example of someone with add in my life. However, he has coped with it quite differently than I have in many ways and doesn’t seem to have some of the same problems or perspectives as the majority of add adults seem to have. (One can only guess why. I have no idea.)
As soon as I started reading a lot of this stuff, it was pretty amazing how much of it sounded like it had been directly lifted from my life.
I also knew I had add in highschool, but I never realized how much it may have correlated with my general strangeness. All the books I’d pick up (to then only half read) or anything I’d hear from professors in my psych classes only spoke about add from the outside or undermined the complexity of the disorder. I always thought some of my odd habits were just me…they weren’t connected to my add and no-one would ever totally understand them.
Reading some of this forum and watching the videos on this site and seeing people dealing with those same problems is extremely nice for that. 