I have three ADD shirts. "I don't suffer from ADD, I enjoy every minute of it!", "I have ADD, I never finish anythi" and "I don't have ADD, it's just..oh look! A bunny rabbit!" I like laughing at myself. I accepted the ADD. Lot easier to do that than get depressed over it!!

The problem (mine or my mom's) is........

On my MySpace space, I publically announced I have ADD. To me, it's no big deal. I read an email from my mom (the one that does not live with us. LOL) and she said my brother was shocked I put my medical history on there. It could discriminate me from future employers. Ok, I kinda understand that. I've heard they look at that kind of stuff. But is it THAT big of a deal? I think I agree with her there....barely but it would help if she would've said something more polite. My brother left me a message that I haven't read yet. It'll probably be about the same thing.

Then....what really gets me depressed about my mom.....(here's why I was so depressed living with my parents!!!) She "thought" about my shirt (since she's in town visiting. Not staying with me, thank goodness) and it just "labels me". That upset me so bad I about wrote her an e-mail back. I decided to ask you all how I should address it though.

Family background (I'd never get hired if my future employees read all the stuff I write in the ADD Forum!!!)....my brother has always been the perfect one. Everyone sees that Mom favors him. He's only a couple years older than me. Different personalities but oh well. Even though there's been a lot of "unperfect" stuff about him.... He doesn't have ADD and I could never picture him wearing something that I would wear. So I'm the blacksheep I guess.

Quick! I need some hugs please! LOL. This is EXACTLY why I was so depressed down in Kansas all the time! Mom hasn't gotten on my nerves yet since she's been up here (so far about a week. She's staying another week) but she's starting to now! Opinions!!!!

ATM, I have no idea how you should address it -- my brain is officially shut down for the night...

But (((hugs))) all the same.

Hang in there and chin up!

Remember, we're more interesting and fun to be around than the "perfect" siblings.

Get a T-shirt that says family black sheep - or my mother never likes my T-shirts or maybe one with an arrow ignore this person and be sure she walks on the side the arrow points.

Maybe some thing like
http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s206/tlr823/borrowed%20small%20pics/dontlabelme.jpg

Perhaps maybe this is your style

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s206/tlr823/borrowed%20small%20pics/ILLITRATE.jpg

Not all employers are ADD-phobic few if any are going to read your forum entries and if employers hired based on crap you write on myspace they are either looking to hire some one who writes blogs in which ADD may help, the CIA, or a figment of your mum's imagination - I write all sort of sh** on myspace and the account is even under my real first name I haven't had one employer comment on any thing written on my space or here.

((((((hug)))))

Your mom needs to accept you for who you are - some mums actually do that naturally. No one is perfect not her nor your brother -

Any one who is old enough to have grown children {like myself} should already understand perfect is merely a delusion of the imperfect mind . . . . .

Thank you, thank you! Been an up and down birthday. I have MySpace and then I shut it down. Then I start it up again. LOL (a symptom of ADD?). My brother didn't even add me to his friends!!!! Grrr.... He wrote a message saying happy birthday. That's cool. I wanted a bunch of comments though!!! And I had to dump one friend who I've known for a LONG time. "**** me off once, shame on you. Keep ****ing me off, shame on me!" Ok, that's not the actual phrase but it's the same idea. He didn't put any comment (my birthday wish was for all my friends to leave a comment) and he was on at 1:00 am yesterday morning!! Idiot didn't bother.

Does Concerta cause mood swings? I just started it. Maybe it's just circumstances.... My ****y (I guess that's my word for the day. Hopefully I don't get blocked. It's not EXACTLY swearing!) birthday..... Friends like you all help make it better.

Wow! Good editing! I guess I swear more than I thought I did! Oops! Underneath the asterics isn't too bad of a word. Maybe it was light swearing.... I can't even swear correctly!!!! LOL

Here is an extra message that I can't seem to delete. LOL. Ignore this!!!

Uneek1,
Don't let them make you feel bad for who you are. You are the only one that needs to be happy with yourself.

I make it a habit to listen to others comments (ie. complaints & criticisms). They can be helpful. But I have to decide for myself if they are helpful. Does what they are telling me, as logical & rational as it may be, contradict my own true self? Does my gut say something isn't quite right here, for me?

I'm not going to give advice about a myspace page, or a t-shirt... I'm just going to tell you that you need to be true to yourself, who you want to be, and how you want to live.

As long as you can do that, what they think won't matter.

<hug></hug>

I knew I could count on you guys! I put a Guns N Roses shirt on one of the kids the other day and she never said anything. LOL. I'm surprised....

When will I grow up? LOL.

New shirt: "I've got plenty of friends in ADDland to play with! I don't need you!" Ok, I'm tired. LOL.

GnR rawks!

GnR rawks!

Sure does! My husband thinks I like living in the past though. I love the new Motley album. It's great! Hubby could care less about it. He thinks I need to put the past behind me. Uh, it just came out this year.... Am I getting too old to rock and roll? NEVER!

If you like t-shirt sayings here is a blast from ADDF past neuropsychiatric" t-shirt sayings (http://www.addforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8338)- but the thread still gives me a laugh. I have it on my favorites which is how I can still find it. . . . .it is umm a few years old but still funny as all get out.

It is a great pick me up in many ways . . . .it was one of the first threads I participated in on a regular basis - okay it was when I finally figured out how to post in the little reply box and how to find my way back to a discussion I had been in previously. . .

Enjoy . . .:)

Ummmm.....oops! I'm hanging my head in shame. A few posts back, remember when I said I dumped the friend from MySpace? Well, he did try but I had deleted him as a friend. I was upset so I didn't give him a chance to send a comment. So he didn't do it ON my birthday....!!!! I feel so bad. I just checked my mail for that screen name and it said I had a message from him. I was able to read it without actually getting on MySpace (the computers at work won't let us on there). He said something like, "it said I was not a friend. That was strange..." Uh....well.....I COULD tell him I don't know what happened. LOL. He invited me to be his friend again. One of the most up and down relationships I've ever had is with him...and it was never even romantically!...well....almost but not and "you're a nice girl but".....because I wanted more. Ok, no we never slept together! I'll just put it that way.

Just wanted to let you know how embarressed I am. LOL. Hey, I have an excuse I have ADD and was just a bit too impulsive.

Awww, here's hoping today's a better day for you!

Hilarious thread meadd