Some people believe that ADHD is a fraud, others believe that it is a disorder. I believe that it is a gift. Some people believe that a gift can only be positive which will make a person perfet. But as we all know perfection is impossible and it takes failure to succeed. My negative ADHD traits are there to teach me that with actions there are consequences and I can use my mistakes to learn. I love to learn and with my negative ADHD traits I am forever learning and so my life will never be dull.

People with ADHD are great thinkers, although some people may disagree as we don't always think the way others think. I can give you ideas from a completely new and different perspective out of nowhere. Some people call this type of thinking 'out of the box' thinking. This is where my mind lives. In fact I find thinking inside of the box incredibly difficult but if you get ideas from someone who thinks inside the box and put them together with the ideas of someone who thinks outside of the box the results can be amazing.

I apologise for my scattered writing skills, keeping on one track is not a strong point of mine, although if you have ADHD then this might make sense... at least I hope so!

Sometimes I have days when I just think "I hate ADHD, it ruins everything." I am so wrong when I think this. Yeah ADHD can be difficult, I can be impulsive, hyperactive at the wrong times, distractable and unfocussed. But when my positive ADHD traits shine through I can do great things, I even surprise myself sometimes.

What I guess I'm trying to say is that ADHD is only a bad thing if you let it be. I believe that everyone has something that they are very good at, not everyone knows what they are good at but once you find it, use your ADHD positively and you will go far.

You have so much potential. Let it shine!


Again I apologise for my scattered writing style but I felt the need to tell people how I feel about ADHD.

For me, that out of the box thinking, was the only way I could learn.
I was in a group in my early college days called "pathfinders."
It was for handicapped people.
I know, they are "hadicapable", I got that.
There were people that had physical problems, that you could easily identify
(deafness, lameness, etc), but then there were the ADD people.
We look like everyone else on the outside, but to everyone else, once we start speaking, we make no sense (often times).
I learned in this group, that we (as the others) were "pathfinders", trying to find a different path to the same thing (learning and normalcy) that everone else walked straight to.
So we don't get things the first time (names, concepts, etc), but we do retain them longer once we get them IMHO.
We also think "outside the box" because we aren't even in the box to begin with.
This goes with a lot of ADDers.
We learn differently, but in doing so, I think we learn more, because we aren't hurrying through something, and we are more focused on learning.
Maybe it's just me, I don't know.
Anyone else feel this way?

For me, I've always had much more to deal with, than 'just' ADHD.

If I would've allowed all those who expected me to 'fail'... to win...then the game of Life would've ended a long, long time ago, for me.

Sometimes people don't understand, that 'creative thinking' is a survival tool, when they dub it something else.

I still don't view ADHD as an impediment, for me.

I'm not minimizing anyone else's views, by saying this...this is just my own view, about *me*.

I'm ending this by saying, that I truly believe in my heart, that I've been blessed with certain 'gifts', that most choose not to observe as such.