The Pros of ADD (that’s attention deficit disorder):
- It’s a perfect fit for a blog with no topic.
- You can learn little bits of tons of subjects.
- You never have a chance to get bored.
- Life is a constant adventure.
- There’s a certain freedom to being impulsive and spontaneous.
- People with ADD are highly intuitive.
- People with ADD are creative.
- It isn’t about inattention, but attention to so many things.
- People with ADD can hyper-focus like nobody’s business.
Even though it has complicated my life ever since I got the first “whispers” and “won’t sit still” on my report card in kindergarten, I wouldn’t want to be any other way. Of course if I’d been born the other way I’d never know what I was missing, but I like it this way just fine. Even though all through the years I see the trouble it caused me. It would have been easier to have had some help learning to deal with it, but over all I like my brain going off on whatever tangent strikes it and I even like it when I get obsessively stuck on something and stay up 30 hours or so working on it. I could spend months telling of my adventures that came from ADD. It’s how I saw Boston, joined the army, lived in Savannah, moved to California, it’s also how I spent a winter living in a basement and sleeping on the Charles riverbank, but I wouldn’t have missed it all for anything.
Preach on sista!
OK so I’m weirded out by your picture. It looks like one of those “I took a picture of my kids and really messed with it” kind of things, but I also see a vagina.
I tried to call you the other day and the phone just rang and rang and rang 🙁
Wow, and I thought I was warped. I don’t see a vagina, just a really discombobulated woman.
I might have been sleeping but I think my ringer might not be working. I’ve spent most of the week in bed with a pinched nerve in my back.
Ooooh — look at all those positives! And to think pharmaceutical companies push to medicate these energies right out of our kids! Boo-hiss…..
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Not just pharmaceutical companies push them. My daughter was started on ritalin, during her second try at first grade. It turned her into a zombie. I took her right back off it within a week. At an IEP meeting 6 months later, her special ed teacher said she was ‘fidgety’ that day and did I forget her ritalin? I said she hasn’t been on it for 6 months and that woman threw a true tantrum right there in the IEP meeting. Even shocked the principal. Let’s not teach kids (or adults) to deal with the issues it causes, lets just dope them into conformity.
I love this story. When I was raising my son (who is now 25) going through his ADHD I didn’t have anywhere near this positive an attitude. This really needs to be there for mom’s who are going through it now.
I have known a few kids who were so out of control they needed a little help, but it’s not entirely a negative thing to have 😉