Careers are never an easy thing for ADHDers. There are so many things in life we want to do, we become paralyzed by all of the choices and opportunities. We also doubt ourselves that we will make the right choice. That’s a problem because when something is wrong for us, it’s REALLY WRONG. There isn’t a “SUCK IT UP” option for us, because when something is wrong, we feel it with our entire beings. It starts off mentally, moves to emotionally and finally progresses to phys

I’ve been asked more than once, if I had it to do all over and it was an option, would I choose a “normal” brain to live my life. My response is always…Are you kidding me? I see more, feel more, taste more, smell more, think more, hear more, know more…what an amazing, colorful, layered world I live in that “normal” brains will never see. That’s like asking a meat-eater if he would want to give up his steak for a lifetime of Spam. A weird analogy for a vegetarian, but hey,

We love our friends and family, but unless they have AD(H)D, there is no way in H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks that they’ll ever have any clue of what we go through. Sometimes they think they’re helping us with their advice and tips, when they’re actually making things worse. They “attack” so we withdraw. We withdraw so they attack. They attack so we withdraw….on and on. It’s an endless cycle, and probably not the best thing for our mental health (or theirs for that matter). I