Roll Call -Wisconsin Attention Deficit Disorder

[Tara]

This is a roll call for members living in Wisconsin . Please give a brief intro.

Name
Location
Relationship to AD/HD

[Lilgoomer]

Anyone else from Wisconsin?

[Aiyana]

Hi.
My penname is, Aiyana.
I live near Green Bay, with my husband, who is from Wisconsin. I am not. I am from Cali, and I don't have any real friends, and no family, I can count on, trust or can confide in, or whom, I do not scare away with all of my problems and issues.

We have lived here for a couple of years, but I am not happy, here.
Wisconsin is a far cry from Cali, as I miss the atmosphere, and the open and outgoing people within the southern state communities. I also miss my private getaway spots right off the beach, the sunsets, the lifestyle of being a beach-comber, as no other beach (for me), throughout this great Land of the Free, beats the Western Coastline, as San Diego and Southern California beaches do.

I hope that through this forum, I can meet some people in my area, and become friends with some people, who will not judge or persecute me for being myself.

I write poetry as a means to be understood, and to be listened to, but that is not, always, enough...
I need to feel ok with who I am, my circumstance i.e., a newbie, and such.

Who knows, maybe I will find my place, where I belong, and feel safe to socialize and to just being me.

P.s. It always comes up, so allow me to clarify... Yes, I am in counseling and I do get medication treatment, that I am currently taking. For I have been recieving treatment and counseling since the age of seven... There are no magical cures, so the battle goes on.
I just really hate that that is the first question everyone asks, whenever I open up with immediate honesty, and vulnerability, as if that label is supposed to mean something. To me, questions like that, right off the bat, tends to become, more of a hinderance, and my goal, here, is to move on with my life, not to be set back, by these concerns (?).

Not saying that no one should be concerned, and ask, it is just that that is always the first thing someone asks me, and that makes me feel, one is rushing to assumptions and misinterpreting my openess as anything but.

Thank you for allowing me to present this to you.
And thank you, for having me, here.
Aiyana

Safe Journey
Aiyana

[BenFoldsNerd]

I live in Milwaukee, WI, where I'm currently attending college. I'm 22 and not very close to graduating.

[amymoe]

Also from WI! I is nice to see a whole state full of support!

[casper]

I too am from WI. The milwaukee area. 23, still in college, and feed up with my ADD!

[jenni4476]

I'm about 20 min north of Milwaukee...Hi all!

I'm 28, recently diagnosed (thank god, no I'm really not broken!), still trying to get through college. Married, 2 kids (with suspected ADHD), living crazy and kind of liking it.

[Alynnstaff]

My name's Amy (non-ADHD)- Milwaukee - 30 - boyfried w/ADHD (hence why I'm here).

Aiyana: If you're ever come to the Milwaukee area, feel free to contact me and we can get together sometime. You can feel safe and "be you" all you want and it would not make a difference to me at all. If it's okay, I would love to read your poetry sometime.

[d0dg3r]

My name's Steve and I live in Neenah, which is about 30 or 45 minutes south of Green Bay. I think I have ADD. Only took me forty years to figure that out. Looking back, I think it never got caught when I was kid because while I have fidgety feet, I wasn't doing cartwheels throguh the school or anything so hyperactive as to really disrupt things... I saw an ad for Straterra on TV a while back and had a "EUREKA!" moment; read "Driven to Distraction" about three months ago and had many more. In fact, it almost seems too perfect a diagnosis in some ways, but I guess I'm not the first to have that reaction either.

I've been treated on and off for depression and anxiety disorder since I was in my early teens without much success, probably because that's been only part of the problem. I'm currently in the process of being "evaluated" for ADD which is a little frustrating. Had to wait six weeks to see a specialist, then another two week wait to take some tests (scheduled for next Monday) and then see the specialist again on Dec. 21. Maybe this is moving right along, but I wish it could move a lot faster! OH well

The doctor did say at the initial appointment that he agrees ADD is a likely diagnosis, so in the meantime I'm going to be reading posts on here to try and get a handle on things. So far it looks as if I'm hardly alone in my experiences.

Thanks for having this forum.

[sdmonty]

Hi, just found this forum this afternoon. Just wanted to say hello.

I'm a 35 y/o m in Madison; transplanted from the east coast over thirteen years ago for grad school, and for various reasons, I'm still here.

Some of those reasons revolve around my ADD; I was diagnosed about eight years ago; at the time I was in the third year of a post-grad school job search (for a university level teaching position) that was going nowhere, and in the fourth year of a relationship; my partner did not accept ADD, or work with me to understand what it was and how it was impacting my life. A year later I abandoned my job search (or shelved it; the jury is still out...), and two years after that the relationship disintegrated.

I am still single; I date off and on, and try to meet new people; I have a steady job that keeps me fed/clothed/sheltered and requires some of my vast creativity; all in all I lead a very good life; but... there are things I would like to do, new directions I would like to try, and many of these things take planning and time over the long haul. That's where I feel the ADD is most disruptive; I'm very organized, and I'm good at planning projects, but after the initial "launch" period, it's keeping the attention going on the little processes required to achieve the end result that often trip me up.

Anyway, long enough post already; hello; I look forward to reading up more on here over the next couple of weeks.

[Spacey Cat]

Hey There! I'm a 21 yr old from Stevens Point (dead centerof the state). I just found this site today and I'm so excited to find other people who relate to me! I spent my entire life feeling that I was a little different from everyone, but could never put my finger on just what that difference was. During my second dismal year at the U of Minn, I started getting depressed (which I now know was kinda caused by ADD) and it was then that I was diagnosed. I have since read a ton of books, such as Driven to Distraction, Answers to Distraction, and Learning Outside the Lines. (A wonderful book for ADDers in college) Since I've been diagnosed with ADD, my dad, an aunt, an uncle, grandmother, and a cousin have all been diagnosed. It's such a great feeling to know what that difference I always felt is.
I look forward to reading and anwering posts and getting to know everyone!

[adidas_swimmer]

23 female in oshkosh finishing up my last semester of a bio major and currently applying to grad schools for the fall in forensic science

[GaryandRachel]

Yes, we are from Sheboygan, Wi

[GaryandRachel]

We just moved here from florida to Sheboygan, WI with our two kids stephany and jacob.

[casper]

Brookfield Here