Re: The Benifits

[Anonymous]

Embrace chaos. You’re right about that. I used to teach in a very shall we say, ‘hectic’ classroom full of SpecEd behaviour students. Most of them were diagnosed as ADHD but that was the least of their issues. Their other diagnoses were much more serious and problematic.

Whenever there was a blowup and yes, they were frequent, I was always bombarded by questions from the other teachers in the school as to how I was to stay so calm when someone was in the midst of tearing up a classroom and smashing equipment and windows. Uhh, I think it never frazzled me much because- A. What would getting all ‘excited’ accomplish? It certainly wouldn’t assist in settling the situation down and B. My brain just seemed to go into the correct zone to really work. Maybe the rush of adrenaline was actually making my brain actually work properly for once!

Who knows? I’ve been successful in that line of teaching and I can thank my ADHD for that. I went into that line of teaching because frankly, I was finding the ‘regular’ classroom just a tad boring. Same old routine, day in and day out. The ADHD was a real benefit in that job. (I had to step out of it due to some big health concerns/surgery. It was getting hard to dodge the kicking/hitting/tripping with any speed.)

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