'ADHD may give me many good qualities. It may set me apart; it may make me who I am. But sometimes it screws me up. It makes me messy. It keeps me from doing things that neurotypical people do without thinking.'
I know there are a lot of positive things about attention deficit disorder . I’m a creative thinker; I can multi-task. I can hyperfocus. I tend to get obsessed about things, which can be both a good thing and a bad thing . I have good qualities, and some of those good qualities are partly my ADHD brain’s neurochemistry. I appreciate that.My husband cleaned out my car last week. That sucker was clean. You could see the floor. He’d chiseled off the Splenda packets dried into the cup holders.
It will stay this way until I clean it again. When I stand back, and gaze upon the totality of mess in my van, I can’t think of where to start. As other people withThis would not happen to a neurotypical person. They’d just keep the damn car clean in the first place, and remember to carry things inside.It’s not just the mess in car and the house-specifically my bedroom and bathroom, where you can’t see the floor. I had promised a friend I would watch his son one day.
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