How can I accept my ADD, for what it is, a part of me?
Any suggestions?
Does anyone else struggle with accepting their ADD and more importantly themselves?

Does anyone else struggle with ... and more importantly themselves?Everybody should face this struggle; it reflects what it is to be ADD - the urge to answer ->- what it is to be ADD.
And before this post drifts away as a meaningless collection of words ... here's a quote - one which I used with alarming regularity here

... 'the desire - to understand our (rr)reality - our context, our meaning - our reason for being' - is our motivation.

... why though?
... a meaningless collection of words?
or more...???...

Simply - the urge which you describe - is an evolutionarily defined desire.
The mind has been evolutionarily favoured -- The mind is the development which arose from the interneurone (that is) - bit between
->->->-
info in ->- {} ->- info out.

Nothing magical.
Or mysterious.
Or freaked.

... and more importantly themselves?Simply an evolutionarily defined desire - reflecting the serendipitous path which man has taken from first life on our planey - to now.

How can I accept my ADD, for what it is, a part of me?
Any suggestions?
Does anyone else struggle with accepting their ADD and more importantly themselves?I did.

I came to this forum to get help and to learn how to live up to the standards that I believed were expected of me; standards contrary to ADD. "I must stop being distracted, bad boy." "Be perfect, it won't hurt."

What I discovered was that my ADD made me special, made me think and question and search and ask and ask.... Please forgive the technical digression, but it's made me realize I am not linear but multifarious, complex, not a single self but a different self each second with a shared memory.

memetic through and through

Each of us must confront and face what we are. A deficit? From one vantage point. A new creation from another.

Be patient, you'll find your way, but it must be your way.


SL :)

How can I accept my ADD, for what it is, a part of me?
Any suggestions?
Does anyone else struggle with accepting their ADD and more importantly themselves?Accepting ADD is always going to be a struggle. How can we 'accept' something without knowing how it affects us individually, or what it will mean to us in the future? You can only really accept it when you've learned how to cope with it, to see your way clear to a future you want despite any challenges ADD might bring.

The key is knowledge--knowledge about how ADD itself and the specific ways it might affect your life. Then knowledge of yourself, your own specific strengths and weaknesses, especially as affected by ADD. And then the most important step--finding a way to work with your strengths and weaknesses instead of fighting against them all the time, to get support with or delegate the hardest challenges and or ways to work around them to get on with life. This kind of knowledge takes time and experience and experimenting and patient effort. Not exactly an ADD'er's long suit...

How can I accept my ADD, for what it is, a part of me?
Any suggestions?
Does anyone else struggle with accepting their ADD and more importantly themselves?
I've really been thinking about this a lot lately, but the problem is I also have Tourette's Syndrome (fairly bad), GAD, OCD, and who knows what else. I believe that all of my 'special blessings' are somehow interrelated and that the labels that we all get are just a convenient way to disguise our poor understanding of the human brain.

You have received some excellent replies already, however I felt there was a little bit more information which may prove useful.

How can I accept my ADD, for what it is, a part of me?

Much of this acceptance is dependent upon time. Being diagnosed as ADD causes a change in perception of ourselves, even though the reality is we have been ADD all our lives. This new revelation will normally bring about a variety emotional reactions this is normal.



Any suggestions?

Give your self some adjustment time, accept your feelings as they come, avoid judging your self by these feelings which will fluctuate.




Does anyone else struggle with accepting their ADD and more importantly themselves?

Struggling with accepting ADD is some thing every one who has ever reached true acceptance has had to go through.

Self acceptance is a journey, one of the few that become easier with age.