“We first heard of ‘attention deficit disorder’ in the ‘90s, when I was a teenager. My mother to bravely pursued an ADHD diagnosis for herself. The diagnosis transformed her life. Years later, I see her for the radical trailblazer she truly is.'
It’s the late ’80s. I’m 6 years old, waiting outside of my elementary school for my mom to pick me up. She is running very late, and it’s almost time for school to close. The grownups, horrified by my mom’s transgression, try to comfort me with all-too-cheery, reassuring words: “I’m sure she’ll be here at any moment, sweetie. I am sure she didn’t forget you!”on her way to pick me up from school.
She was magnetic; her friends loved her and loved to spend time at our house, which was always well stocked with orange soda and sour cream potato chips. In our Southern world of twinset-wearing JC Penney moms in minivans, my mom wore slippers and drove a giant electric green camper. I loved her freedom and joy. She was the mom who propped us up onto the furniture to dance to beach music, cranked at full volume. I loved that she let us eat fried chicken and bananas, the two items always in the grocery cart that she’d load up with enough food to last us a month at a time.I loved my mother, and I hated her, too. At least, I thought I hated her at times. I hated the judgment that she attracted by daring to show up differently.
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