If Only You Applied Yourself

When I got started in the ADHD community, I did it to educate, inspire, and support parents and children.  I felt that too many people were being labeled or mislabeled.  I found that people being labeled as ADHD (or diagnosed with ADHD) were having major events in their lives overlooked, and simply attributed to their ADHD.  It drove me nuts!

ADHD is a way of understanding differences.  That’s all there is to it.  ADHD might provide an explanation for how you respond to events, or struggle in certain areas of life.  But it does not account for everything you experience.

ADHD Is Real

All I know is that ADHD is real.  I might have it… I might not.  But what I do know, is that I have always been different…  I will always be different, and I am proud of that.

What is normal anyway?

When I started thinking about whether or not I really do have ADHD, I drove myself crazy trying to “make sense of my life.”  And then it hit, I understand my life already.  I am already successful.  So whatever I am doing has been working.

My whole life I have heard, “Imagine what you could do if only you applied yourself?”

My answer, now and then, “I might screw up.”

Focus On What Really Counts…

Let’s focus more on what we can do and are doing, rather than what we should be doing.

Let’s spend more time giving people the support they want and need, rather than trying to rescue them.

While ADHD affects many people, and it can have a profound impact on school, social, work, and more…  For many people it can be just a natural part of life.  Really… it can be.

I’m sorry to all the people who feel the need to label one another and classify us as if we are in need of a new categories and classifications.

Let’s look at one another as people with certain challenges, and unique talents.  And then let’s focus on being successful by knowing how or helping others to use those unique talents.

Some people just aren’t meant to sit in an office for 40+ hours a week.  And I am one of those people…

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