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Damn, you brain. I have stated before that I only realized my intelligence less than five years ago. I know this sounds wild, but it’s my reality. I sometimes feel like I have two brains, one that is driven and hyper-focused and another that is scattered and struggles to recall words or remember the most straightforward fact.…
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I wrote about friendships and my mom’s lifelong friends a while ago. I wrote about how lucky she was to have friends that lasted a lifetime, that came into her life around the time I was born and remained until her last breath; some were present at the time of her last breath. Those friends…
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Thank you. I say this with gratitude to all those who read my blog and with whom I spoke today. Today felt like a milestone. Today, I felt heard, supported, and recognized. You may wonder what she is going on about, especially given the gaps in my posts. For that, I apologize. I promise to try to do…
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Have I told you that my ADHD makes me special? It makes me very smart, an expert of sorts in things that interest me or that I am passionate about. Have I told you how it makes me function like the energizer bunny until my batteries run dry? Unless, of course, I am passionate about what I…
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I did it… I can officially check it off… it was not as bad as I thought. Was it a lot? Yes. Were the 100’s of people a lot to deal with, given I hate crowds? Yes, but I survived. I admit I did retreat to corners of the room on occasion, but I lived…
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One of the most un-used words in the English language is No! We seem afraid to say No! to people, especially children. Imagine if their feelings got hurt. Imagine if they had not gotten their way. According to them, I must confess I ruined my child’s life at an early age. I said No! They responded that…
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Shhhh… stop and listen or rather hear what is being said. Have you ever felt like people do not hear what you are saying? I feel like this is a lost art. We focus so much on people and their listening skills when we should focus on their hearing skills. People can listen to you…
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Too many words, too long to tell me what you want me to know. When I am unfocused, my daughter will say, “Focus”. People have given her a hard time when she does this, but she responds, “I have to; otherwise, it will take her 45 min to tell me something that should take 5”. …
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What is happening? I sat at the park the other day and watched a child around eight years old cry and hit his mother, and her reaction was to rub his back. I understand that I do not know their story, but I see this more and more. Children are acting out, crying and assaulting…
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When did we start to commodify emotions? Where does it end? The pharmaceutical industry has its hands in every aspect of mental health. As an individual with an ADHD diagnosis and the mother of children with ADHD, I have lived head in the sand for years. In 2021 I returned to school after a…
Random Acts of ADHD: ADHD is not what you do but who you are 