Dr. Lara Honos-Webb Michael Phelps

For every Michael Phelps, Terry Bradshaw, Paris Hilton and Richard Branson there are hundreds, perhaps even thousands of others with ADHD who go by each day unnoticed and alone in their struggles. These are wonderful people suffering chastisements, belittlements and ridicule from themselves, and others, who may never know what it is like to smile a genuine smile of pure happiness. Lonely spirits searching for hope and happiness, searching for some relief from the constant bombardment of life in a void, uncontrolled and unrelenting. I have not forgotten the days gone by, the pain or the tears and the fears. No, they are still fresh in my mind, in every step I take forward. They beckon to me and I remember them for what they were. The goal of my writing, in my memoir, here and elsewhere, is to show that life does go on, and that there is a way, that […]