Reply To: Help, my spouse is not interested in learning about ADHD

[blackdog]

I had to skip your thing because I just don’t feel like reading it right now.

My “significant other” has no interest whatsoever in learning about ADHD. Or anything else for that matter. No curiosity and no desire to know any more than what he knows.

It was so funny when I was watching the DVD the ADHD doc gave me. They showed the home of one of the women they interviewed with the kitchen counters all cluttered up, dirty pots and pans everywhere, clothes all over the bedroom floor…. He looked over at the TV, looked at me, looked at the TV again, then pointed at me and said “You!”

And  I replied “Yes, me. That’s  why I’m going to the doctor”.

The next day he washed the pots and pans.

So he has some basic understanding, which is likely all he will ever have. The real problem is the rest of my family. Even though they know and sort of understand they will never really get it. I’m not sure anyone who hasn’t experienced it themselves can fully understand, even if they do watch the videos and read the books.

i don’t know what to say. You can’t force someone to learn something they aren’t willing to learn. But you might be able to trick them into doing it……;)

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