Comments on: From Loathing to Loving My Awesome, Dangerously Fast Brain

By: Kate Arends

Kate Arends — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:25:31 +0000

In reply to Kristi. Thanks for your comment, Kristi. I'm really glad to hear this resonated.

By: Kristi

Kristi — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 22:28:43 +0000

Just stumbled upon this and I can relate abundantly. Thanks.

By: Jim Rhodes

Jim Rhodes — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 12:51:54 +0000

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By: Hanna

Hanna — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 21:23:50 +0000

Weirdly enough I was diagnosed the same year as you, but with ADD. I started seeing a therapist at uni when living abroad so my student insurance covered it and she asked if we could take a test for it. Once I got my results in I felt the same way, I was in tears and also a bit angry why nobody had realised before and helped me out. I too worked so hard. I almost failed 8th grade and I changed schools and started working harder cause I got good teachers and class mates. I finished with amazing grades, but I was also super stressed the whole time and finished my masters degree, but I had adrenal fatigue and depression. I am so proud of myself, but I over worked and thought I was going to fail, so I worked way too much + with a full time job on the side. With my therapist we did figure out things like time, and how important it is to give myself extra time to get ready or travels. To have to do list and reminders cause forgetting appointments was so stressful for me. I find it so hard with every day life. I work for myself and I’m a graphic and web designer. I would love to read more posts about how you deal with this a bit more in-depth. Really feeling stuck with my work that’s mostly on my computer and working with clients, and wanting to do something less client work orientated. It would be so helpful and love reading about someone else going through something similar cause not many people understand and it’s something only my partner knows

By: Andrea Hartman

Andrea Hartman — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 06:22:22 +0000

“You can’t just try harder. You have to create a life that works with your unique needs.” Those words are gold. I am very often ‘stuck’ in my day or in my work, and I think I need to just ‘try harder’ but really the key is, as you said, to dive into the things I am good at.

Thank you for sharing so honestly, though I am not clinically diagnosed, I can relate all too well! I am also a parent to a kiddo with ADHD, and this is great perspective. Happy to see this being discussed openly (and positively) in the blog world.

By: Mykki

Mykki — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 20:02:06 +0000

I don’t have ADHD but I’m on the Autism spectrum and I deal with some of the executive dysfunction and attention wandering that a lot of people with ADHD have, so I can relate a little bit.

And I do agree, having neurodivergent brains absolutely can be a wonderful thing if we know how to make them work for us instead of against us. 🙂

By: Diane@InMyOwnStyle

Diane@InMyOwnStyle — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 18:46:38 +0000

Thank you for posting this. It is nice to read about others who live with ADHD every day. I have never been officially diagnosed, but know I have had it all my life and know how to use it to my advantage now that I am older. In school and in life, I never had the hyper-active part, hence like you mentioned in your post, I was not seen as a problem – only a daydreamer that couldn’t focus. I am older and ADD/ADHD didn’t even have a name back in the 60’s and 70’s when I was in school. If my teachers had only known that my mind was going a mile a minute with creative ideas and solutions to everything in the classroom and around me all day long, they may have known that I wasn’t daydreaming. I was thinking hard, creating and planning how I could make things better and prettier way beyond what most could ever even imagine. This was and still is my gift. I have been told I am a go-getter. I think the only reason this is- is that I have always known that to stay focused, I have to always be doing stuff I like to do and tune out the rest. I think having ADD has helped me achieve many goals in life and successful as a blogger doing my own thing. Having ADD can be a good thing when you know how to use it to your advantage.