ADD/ADHD
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This is an article from HuffPo. I can relate to some of these things. Other parts seem like they'd apply to either gender.
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I am not the kind of person for whom neatness comes easily. I cant keep to a routine. Every surface of my house is piled with clothes, books, and papers (despite living with a minimalist partner). I start many things and rarely finish them. I find it impossible to focus on instructions. I imagine complex, faraway concepts, but can never seem to get the basics of reality right.
Theres always so much going on in my head, like a thousand different songs playing at once. I try to follow them all, but I cant. I freeze in the overwhelm and feel like its all my fault.
My disorganization was more obvious when I was young and at school. It was easy enough to work on things I cared about, but impossible to dedicate time to the things I didnt. When I was 14, I wrote a long essay about the plague. The subject the decimation of entire populations of Europe, all without explanation darkly fascinated me. I couldnt learn enough. But proofreading my own work didnt hold much satisfaction; it felt like eating the side salad after the main. Printing was also overwhelmingly cumbersome. My printer at home was broken, and the effort of saving the file onto a floppy disk to print it out at the library held zero appeal. So it did not get done.
More at link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-establishment/why-so-many-women-with-adhd-never-get-the-help-they-need_b_9842454.html
Doreen
(11,686 posts)I am 48 and back when they diagnosed me girls weren't supposed to have it and somehow we were supposed to not have it as bad and we were expected to handle it better. Yeah, think about that. There is still the belief that you "grow' out of it.....yeah, right. I still have to deal with mine but as I have grown older it shifted to being more mentally hyper and I oddly do not have energy to get up and do a lot of physical activity because I am to busy thinking. I do not know if that makes sense but maybe to you it does.
Phentex
(16,500 posts)I think I was more physically hyper as a child and young adult than I am now. I have learned better coping skills as I have gotten older that I wish I had learned much earlier on. I don't think people realize how exhausting it is!
Thanks for posting!