The Power of Positive Thinking & ADHD
Note: This post, written by Bryan Hutchinson, is in response to the two-part post (links are here and here) from Paradigm of Thought (POT).
To: Paradigm Of Thought, Jeff,
I very much enjoyed reading this entire post, more so than the first one. The first part just seemed to be missing too many points and wasn’t clear [...]
You Have A.D.D. And You Can Succeed: A Rebuttal By “Paradigm Of Thought” – Part II
A Bit of Background: A lengthy comment on the blog post You Have A.D.D./A.D.H.D. and You Will NOT Be Rich and Famous resulted in a lengthy response on my part that became the blog post You Have ADD/ADHD and You Will STILL Not Be Rich and Famous. The author of the lengthy comment, Paradigm of [...]
You Have A.D.D. And You Can Succeed: A Rebuttal By “Paradigm Of Thought” – Part I
A Bit of Background: A lengthy comment on the blog post You Have A.D.D./A.D.H.D. and You Will NOT Be Rich and Famous resulted in a lengthy response on my part that became the blog post You Have ADD/ADHD and You Will STILL Not Be Rich and Famous. The author of the lengthy comment, Paradigm of [...]
For the Holidays…Bring Home “The Gift of A.D.D.”
First…a 15-second commercial break:
The Scene: Living room… Fireplace… Christmas tree… Family opening gifts. Camera begins from wide-angle and then slowly zooms in on children. They are fighting over who gets to rip up the wrapping paper. Slowly zoom out. Catch glimpse of father who is muttering curses because he has forgotten his digital camera. As [...]
“Is” and “Like”
Is – to have an objective existence
Like – to be suitable, agreeable, prefer
Someone wrote “I realize it [A.D.D.] is a GIFT if we treat it as such.”
The phrase within that sentence – “if we treat it as such” – defines the underlying problem, the deception, that is perpetrated by Hallowell and Handelman and many others [...]
Unwrapping The Sales Manure
On October 6, 2009, I received an official request to remove the screen shots from this particular blog post. In response, on October 7, 2009, I removed or hid all of the copyrighted material that appeared in the images below. I assure you that no pixels were harmed during this process.
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The Gift versus The Curse
My most recent post, The Curse That Keeps On Giving, has elicited quite a reaction from A.D.D.ers. The very first reaction was an attack. In a private email an A.D.D.er eloquently wrote:
here’s a suggestion — which I doubt you will take since you love to be miserable on your pity pot — try changing your [...]
The Curse That Keeps On Giving
A.D.D. is The Curse that Keeps on Giving. It never stops. It never lets up. It never gives you a break. It is a curse from Pandora’s Box. You can’t put it back in. It stays with you till death. You can’t take a drug that will wipe it out. You can’t get a transfusion [...]
Know Thyself
A.D.D.ers are masters of self-delusion. Our ability to weave mental tapestries to explain anything that needs “explaining away” is our strength, as a source of creativity, and our weakness, as a source of self-delusion. Though we can easily explain anything and everything in the world, we can not explain our own inner workings. This [...]
Is A.D.H.D./A.D.D. A Gift or A Curse?
On the negative side, when someone is diagnosed with A.D.H.D., it is because “things have been going significantly wrong” so that referring to it as a gift “might [be] meet with skepticism.”
On the positive side: “[T]here are lots of skills, abilities and characteristics that routinely come with ADHD, and which most people [...]
