http://www.adderworld.com/blog1/2008/10/28/i-have-adhd-but-i-want-to-be-normal/ Bryan Hutchinson's thoughts about ADD ADHD Attention Deficit Disorder and other stuff Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:44:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.adderworld.com/blog1/2008/10/28/i-have-adhd-but-i-want-to-be-normal/comment-page-1/#comment-50924 Steven Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:21:39 +0000 http://adderworld.com/blog1/?p=930#comment-50924 ok i have adhd and have been on medicine my kid years are done i have been on that medicine forever im 16 years old now.what i mean by normal is not being hyper not having to take medicine in the morning. my pill only last for 12 hours i will take it at 6am and it will kick in at about 9 or 10 am and then i feel normal. im not hyper,not spacing out, not feeling like wanting to bounce off the walls or say stupid stuff that i dont mean. thats what i think most of us adhd people think when we think of normal. we dont want to have to take medicine for us to be good or to do what is told of us, we have to wait for our medicine to kick in before we feel normal ok i have adhd and have been on medicine my kid years are done i have been on that medicine forever im 16 years old now.what i mean by normal is not being hyper not having to take medicine in the morning. my pill only last for 12 hours i will take it at 6am and it will kick in at about 9 or 10 am and then i feel normal. im not hyper,not spacing out, not feeling like wanting to bounce off the walls or say stupid stuff that i dont mean. thats what i think most of us adhd people think when we think of normal. we dont want to have to take medicine for us to be good or to do what is told of us, we have to wait for our medicine to kick in before we feel normal

]]> http://www.adderworld.com/blog1/2008/10/28/i-have-adhd-but-i-want-to-be-normal/comment-page-1/#comment-10739 DaWg Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:35:22 +0000 http://adderworld.com/blog1/?p=930#comment-10739 This is an interesting paradox for me because since being diagnosed I think about it a lot and have become aware of what others perceive and honestly sometimes worry about it. knowing full well that "normal" is an infinite range that cannot be accurately reported or gauged. It's also in a constant state of change, a judgment call. i think I liked it better when I just didn't give a crap about what normal is, or what other people's thoughts were on it. When i didn't WANT to be normal. this could get interesting, buckle up! This is an interesting paradox for me because since being diagnosed I think about it a lot and have become aware of what others perceive and honestly sometimes worry about it. knowing full well that “normal” is an infinite range that cannot be accurately reported or gauged. It’s also in a constant state of change, a judgment call. i think I liked it better when I just didn’t give a crap about what normal is, or what other people’s thoughts were on it. When i didn’t WANT to be normal. this could get interesting, buckle up!

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