Does ADHD Medication Ruin Creativity?
Short answer: No!
To believe otherwise is to conflate your creativity with your ADHD as if one depended on the other. When you are diagnosed with ADHD late in life you just can’t imagine life without your ADHD and, therefore, you assume that your other qualities, like creativity, will suddenly diminish if your ADHD symptoms diminish. [...]
He Said / She Said: Examining the ADHD Life – Answering Questions About ADHD, Parts I & II
The latest in the He Said/She Said series is a set of questions with short, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant answers. After viewing the videos, you may want to tackle answering the questions and providing your answers in this post’s “comments” section. After you post your comments, you may want to see what some others said [...]
The Diabetic Life of the ADHDer
No. I am not diabetic. But I want to draw a parallel between the diabetic’s and the ADHDer’s life.
If a diabetic does not admit they have diabetes, if they try to live like everyone else by eating sugars and carbs, they will literally kill themselves. To survive as a diabetic you need to alter your [...]
How Do They Do That?
The world can sometimes look like a very strange place to adult ADHDers. They scratch their heads and wonder, “How do they do that?”
OMG! I <3 Her Blog!!
It’s not often that you find a blog that so resonates with your soul that all you can do is read post after post after post while having a silly grin on your face as you nod in agreement with so, so many things and…yet… that’s exactly what happened to me when I found Zoë [...]
You Didn’t Fail (For A Dear Friend)
I know you think you failed but you did not. You had a setback.
You didn’t do enough planning. You didn’t do enough research. You didn’t wait for the right moment.
When children learn to walk, they fall many times before they succeed. But they do not fail. They stand up and try again. That’s really the [...]
Pages From My Notebook
Some days I just get tired of having to push myself. I wish I could just wake up and, voila, no more adhd!
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Oh!! Here’s a fcuking eye opener. I have a client who is definitely ADHD. They are god damned psychotic! They drop off the face of the earth and then, blam! they send an [...]
What Is A.D.H.D./A.D.D.?
H/T to Kalstolyn on adderworld.ning.com for posting a link to this video
Part Four: Inside the Mind of JeffsADDMind – A Conversation
Based on the popularity of the blog — JeffsADDMind — and the willingness of its author, known only as “Jeff,” to discuss most any issue that touches on Adult ADHD (and even issues that don’t touch on Adult ADHD), one would be surprised to learn that there is another side of Jeff that is not [...]
Your Baby Is Illiterate: A Review of the “Your Baby Can Read” Program
What is the Your Baby Can Read program?
According to the Your Baby Can Read® website, there is a “natural window,” that is, an optimal time for a child’s developing brain to acquire language skills. This optimal time begins at birth and lasts till age four. The Your Baby Can Read® (YBCR) program is designed to [...]
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 [...]
Mama weer all crazee now – ADHD in the Family
The latest post at You and Me… and Adult AD/HD presents the heart-warming story of a family of A.D.H.Ders and their wonderful wacky ways. In that post you’ll learn how children can invade each others personal space, how they can embarrass their parents at the local restaurant and how parents with A.D.H.D. help to make [...]
Can A Price Be Too Low? Thoughts on the eBook Price War
In the ebook pricing war between Amazon and publisher Macmillan, Amazon has come out the loser. They insisted on holding the price for ebooks at $9.99 while Macmillan wanted the price to be $15.00. You might be inclined to think that the consumer has also come out the loser. After all, a lower price is [...]
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