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Hey, it’s not that easy living with it..I have ADHD, full blown, nine years, etc.

It seems like my middle name is trouble, what with the stuff i get myself into. I keep repeating the same things over and over, but the truth is, I really don’t have that many options to choose from…considering that most of my choices would not be “proper” in society!

I thank you for being such a positive influence in my life, and I urge you to keep it up!

I have adhd and also numbers dyslexia try that on for size i too am always into what ever even when i say or write something it is not exactly what i mean. I cant understand it but i have learned that coffee or coke helps me and calms me down. I raised two children with it and it was not easy. One lies likea rug and the other is very successful and i never used drugs on either one of them except for a while, (two) weeks i used ritlin on the baby and she told me mama that stuff makes me feel stupid. That did iot i stopped and asked the doctor what can i do and he told me to send her to school with a thermos of coffee and that is what i did. The school tried to force me to use drugs on her and i threaten to sue. I did not want my child to feel stupid but i never let her fall on something she had adhd and she also had vision problems no depth preception and i was told to teach her depth preception and i did it like the foot ball players did with a two by four and car tires and she had to walk that two by four and run thro the tires bless her heart today she is a successful realestate agent and i am very proud of her. The other works in a casino. I am also proud of her just not what she does. so i understand their hatreds and loves and their feelings and sometimes I am part of the hate as i pushed as hard as i did. I remember as a child being from a poor neighborhood the teacher i overheard her saying that they were unconcerned about me i would never be nothing comming from where i was from and my problems Math was a killer i could do it in my head but could not bring it out on paper and i was always accused of cheating even if i did it my way in front of them. Life can be hard i cried for my kids and for myself and learned one thing no one can make or break me if i dont let them it i do i let them get away with it and it becomes my problem I wish there can be something i know when i was pregnant i was given by a lady in the neighborhood quote unquote speed it slowed me down and i like how i felt and got things done with out running from one thing to the other with out completeing it. One of the other problems i have all my life and i knew i was different as a young child. I never slept like the others in the house i would be up all night long plundering and reading and etc. Of course i got into trouble with my family but…… just one of those things. I could go on and on and i know how all of you feel who has adhd i also now have several grandchildren with it. I do know that epilepsy runs in the family and often wondered if maybe that had something to do with it. I also know that when i was 44 i went back to school and i wanted all of my life to be a nurse and i was so proud when i got into college and esp when i passed my math which is important in nursing even tho there are pharmacist doing the drugs in the hosp. One never knows when something catastrophic that happens that they dont have a pharmacist there or they need help and a nurse has to know the correct dosage to get to the patient. No one believed that i would finish it and guess what i did i finally became a nurse with a lot of prayers being said that i get to graduate. That was one time in my life i finished anything drug free and i dont believe in giving a child drugs and none to a adult either something else should be looked into like epilepsy does that have anything to do with adhd? I think they should look into it also the diet of pregnant women But mostly i think it may be the epilepsy i think of most. I have a cousin who had pititemal seizures she would be talking and just all of a sudden she would stop and start starring into space and i wouold get her out of it by a pinch and she would shake her head and o0me out ot it. She was also adhd and so is her son with my daugher and her son we had to be careful with those two play together because always one of them would get hurt and one time her son bit my German Shephard because my dog bit first and the dog ran away. and Another time he shoved a curtain rod down her throat and it was a hair from a major artery and she was hemoraghing from her roof of her mouth. I never let them play together again they were too dangerous with each other. I hope and pray that they do come up with somethingTry the epilepsy bit and work from there. You dont need animals to do the studying all you need is me lol and everyone that you can investigage with brain studies and etc Sharron Gorju i wish all of you blessing and good luck

Bryan, Thank you for being a positive force in the world of ADD. I was dxd. . about Ten years ago,I always joke with other people like myself, If you look up Add adult in the dictionary, you will see my picture. ADD explains so much about my childhood problems, labeled a “classic ” under achiever from early childhood to just plain lazy. At 53 I still carry those scars around every day. I have had great trouble keeping a decent job. I am great at interviewing, my inter personal skills are highly evolved, to the point that border lines on compulsive. It is so important that people like me, that I hate any type of confrontation or discord. Through therapy, I learned that it was my coping skill for not succeeding in a traditional way. I may get a D in German, but the teacher would tell my parents how great of a kid I was. I was also lucky to be very smart, it allowed me to get by,with out having to do much in the way of studying. It finally caught up with me big time, when I had to get a job working for someone else. ( I owned my own business for many years.) I am in my 5th job in 3 years and that has caused many financial hardships for me and my family. My wife of 26 years has had a rough time, and it pains me to have put her through much. She does not want to hear anything about ADD, she looks at it as an excuse for my short comings.It takes me a long time to learn anything with a lot of detail, especially computer skills. I find myself in a sales job with 90% computer work in a must do it now environment. Thats my story, if anyone out there has a perfect type of job for someone like me, let me know. The stress of going to work with all the potential pit falls has been difficult. I happen to be a good sales person, people like me pretty quickly, but the follow up is so hard. Thanks for listening. Bruce