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Diagnosed by a friend who told me in a moment of honesty that it is "exhausting" keeping up with my "channel flashes", I took to Google. Oh how mis-informed the world is! "ADHD is just fancy name for hyper kids" and "Doctors are so quick to drug kids because the parents can't handle them" OMG!! Are you kidding me?!

I am 30 years old, and when I read the symptoms for Adult ADD I cried like a baby. It was my life on paper. Then I read the...

As an adult, I struggled in school, specifically while I was a student at George Mason University (G.M.U.). This caused a lot of anxiety for me and my Obsessive Compulsive Disorder was the only way I could cope. It worked well for a while, but it eventually incapacitated me. All along my studies at G.M.U., I had frequent and paralyzing panic attacks. Some symptoms of my struggle in school, I procrastinated starting assignments as long as possible as they made me anxious. The longer I procrastinated,...

I always thought that crochet was invented by an ADD woman, being one myself.


Once upon a time, long ago, probably in France, a woman with undiagnosed Attention Deficit Disorder was puttering around her cottage. Doing much but getting nothing done, of course.


In fact she was very busily working hard at trying to find the key to her chest full of yarn (and other odds and ends that had found their way into the chest). She tore the whole cottage apart...