Allow myself... to introduce... myself.

[BackAfter10]

Points if you can guess whose quote that is.

I'm Teresa, a Gen Xer with ADHD. Also an expat (Ecuador), mom to a tween with ADHD, wife to an obsessed cyclist, sewist, gym lover, cooking disliker, cat mom, artist, author, friend, dork.

I would love to meet other ADHDers, especially to learn what works for you - how you manage and, hopefully, how you thrive. I am not medicated but my son is and so I'm really eager what works for adults and what works for your kids.

I'll keep this short because, you know, we have ADHD.

You're awesome and I hope to meet you soon.

Teresa

[Hominid711]

Hi there, it's Hominid. Sporadically on this forum, getting bored of it at times like with everything else.I liked your post on ADHD books, haha. It's so true, isn't it? What's the negative to 'self-fulfilling prophecy'? Wikipedia says the self-defeating one or Prophet's Dilemma. I never make it to the end and never pick the book up again either. I love having time to follow where ADHD leads me, those are great days! I start by reading ferociously everything my thoughts tell me to latch on to whilst my brain tears itself away from vivid dreams to catch up with the now and here , loving the freedom to go off topic or sideways tangentially and research the questions that result, marvelling at the discovery that there are indeed hypotheses out there matching my thoughts, looking at links. Whilst I'm doing this I consume what tea drinkers would probably call a copious amount of coffee - nothing in halves - and smoke a couple of cigs, not many in fact. I should go out more often because once out I move fast and energetically, chatting up unexpecting, often unexpectedly humerous folk, but sometimes I miss the point in time and have that mini crash of interest or physical energy that inevitably follows high mental energy. A bit unfortunate is that I must have developed anxiety and depression secondarily to this ADHD thing early on in life, resulting from the conflict with academic learning from text and being tested. My personality hates it, but I am on good stuff for it so mostly I'm fine and can be my enthusiastic self, indulge in and love life. I don't believe in neediness but in rational self-compassionate analysis of issues and limits to one's knowledge, so just like I'd have a mechanic taking care of the car I have a psychoanalyst currently who's helping me to figure out those inner workings and what gets thrown in the spanner, hits the fan, how to step aside etc past, present, future.

I guess ADHD is a spectrum and where I've landed after I fell out of my mother I've developed this insane belief in right, wrong, black, white, justice, injustice although I know of course the shades of grey are infinite. But it means that after 3 decades working more or less arduously, mostly joyfully in healthcare I've ended up a whistleblower, so in this world of access to wisdom it's almost self-inflicted, you could say. Presently I'm fighting the battle of righteous naive young David against nasty Goliath oscillating between days of vigour and plotting my next strategy and anxious doubtful pessimism. Having your reputation torn to shreds reflects what your opponent has to loose but the pathetic child within still finds it no mean feat. I'm determined to win, that is to come out stronger at the end, not necessarily winning my case, but having survived and gained with life greeting me all the more sweetly for it. It's Spring again and aaah - all that promise in the air!

[FuzBuz]

Welcome. The quote is Austin Powers. Good taste.