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Everyone is pointing to a key thing I just realized in the last little while. Unless it’s a result of a brain injury, you are born with an ADHD style mindset. So this is all you know. It’s not like depression, where the person and actually remember, vaguely anyway, that they didn’t always have such a dark view of life, they used to have energy, they used to do things, they used to be able to laugh at stuff…
No wonder so many of us take medication for the first time and think, “Well, I didn’t feel any different, but everyone around me became a lot less of jerk.”
It’s not that we never knew what normal was. We just have a different normal.
When we get proper treatment, it’s like, “Oh, this is how it is for most people.”
I think that analogy of putting on glasses for the first time is one of my favourite. It’s not a perfect analogy, but it does capture that sense of, “Oh wow! Look what I’ve been missing! I had no idea.”
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