From The Archives: It’s All About Choices
To be human is to be confronted with choices. Each choice, like a fork in a path, takes us in a different direction. Some choices are inconsequential while others are, literally, life changing. Collectively these choices make up who we are at any point in time. [ Read More ]
Minimize The Effects of Adult ADHD With Holt’s “ADD Simplified”
Adult ADHD has a serious downside. It effects every aspect of your life. Even worse, you cannot get rid of it. However, just because you are stuck with it forever that doesn’t mean you can’t reduce its impact on your life and this is where Sidney Parker Holt’s ADD Simplified: Strategies for Minimizing the Effects [...]
ADD / ADHD Candid Health Series Videos
I’m proud to present this series of video interviews with ADHDers. In these videos you’ll meet Meagan, who talks about how she deals with her learning disability. You’ll meet Cardon who discusses his early diagnosis and his problems with his prescribed drugs, and you’ll hear how Dozie was able to succeed in school once he [...]
Adult ADHD: The Silent Killer
Sometimes I try to imagine how different my life would be if I was diagnosed with ADHD at a young age. (From the perspective of age 52, a “younger age” would be 36.) The changes that have occurred in my life during the past few years — improvements in memory; ability to meet deadlines (well…sometimes); ability to visualize the future (this is improving in leaps and bounds)
STFU! I Silenced My BlackBerry And Lived To Tell About It
I love my BlackBerry™. I’ve written many posts on my BlackBerry. I’ve replied to many comments and emails from my BlackBerry. But with eight different email accounts all going to my BlackBerry (and Twitter, FaceBook and WordPress for BlackBerry too!), the device can become quite distracting. Each time it beeps when an email arrives, I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! ————————————————————- 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 [...]
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 [...]
