[luisba]

This explains so much of my life! I’m mind blown!

For as long as I remember I have shopped clothes by touching and feeling, if it feels good I buy it. I dont cut just cut the lable off clothes, I loose and cut the threads that attach the label. Perfume makes me dizzy. I detest crowds but I am ok with loud music as long as it has a melody, specially singing, if it is just noise it gives me anxiety. I hate land mowers and busy streets. The more I think about it the more I discover! I think this is the reason I want to live in the woods in the middle of nowhere! I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 5 years old and I cant believe Im just learning about this!

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[luisba]

Hey Brian and Buschman!

My name is Luis, I am 28 years old and I was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia when I was 5 years old. I do not actively take medication but I was medicated until I was 17 years old, then back at it between 22 and 26 although not constantly. Concerta was the weapon of choice for most of my life, Ritalin used to give me tics when I was a kid but it was fine as an adult. what I can tell you is that you don’t feel the medication until you do a task you struggled with before and it wont do stuff on its own, you need discipline and routine to help you out. In my experience you need to take the medication daily or you’ll spend most of your time with the side effects and not doing what you need to be doing, I know a lot of people that take their pills only on days they think are going to need it. In my experience that is a load of BS haha. Take it daily, and continue with your life, you’ll feel a difference within a week, if you do not, dont worry about it. Everone is different in their biology and their needs, your doc and you will find the right dosage for you.

Medication is not magic, and most of the time we can learn to function in this not adhd friendly world. We will always struggle and the silver lining is that wr get can get used to it and shine in the adversity. I am not gonna lie, there are some days when I think I am gonna die if someone does not invent Rosie from the Supersonics soon. Who knows maybe Ill just get fed up with not remembering to eat or do the dishes and invent it myself, maybe someone reading this will invent something like it (if you do, you have no idea how grateful I am). The important thing is that we try, know your weaknesses and compensate. We would be unstoppable if we could f$%^*#@ multitask. It is important to remember that our weakness can also be our strength, our ability to focus on something is extraordinary, when we get “in the zone” nothing else exits but ourselves and whatever has caught our attention. Sometimes our attention is focused on the cure for cancer or a particularly difficult engineer problem, maybe the notes composing a song, and sometimes our focus is in a bouncy ball our the tennis shoes of an 8 year old that shine every time he takes a step and we resemble a particularly large cat lost in a laser pointer.

What I am trying to say is that all of us feel hopeless from time to time (some times it lasts for years) but you never know whats around the corner, do your best, have a laugh with yourself [I am hilarious when I forget to turn off the stove (sarcasm) thank whomever is above that I am still alive] dont give up and take comfort that there’s other people going through the same things you are struggling with.

Wish you both the best!

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