Part of #ExplainAdultADHD. Crowdsourcing ADHD adults to help reduce ignorance and stigma by non-ADHD adults against our fellow adults with ADHD.
Share the most important point you want non-ADDers to know about what it’s really like living with Adult ADHD, I post it on my blog & share it on social media with the hashtag #ExplainAdultADHD and encourage others to share it. Anonymously or full name.
“Attention Deficit” Is A Misnomer.
“It’s not that I can’t pay attention – it’s that so many things are clamouring for my attention! Having ADD is like living life without filters.
It’s always a conscious effort to choose what I am going to pay attention to, among many, many things that are all shouting at me “HEY, OVER HERE!”.
Once I pick that focus, however, I’m all in. I may not hear the phone ring, or that you want my attention. I might say “Yeah, OK” to your request that I get the milk, without knowing I said a word.
I literally won’t register that a part of my brain heard you were talking and responded back to you.
This is in part a problem with regulating attention and in part a self-defence mechanism.
Once I’m locked in, I don’t want to go back out to the overwhelming world without filters.”
By Catherine Novak.
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What is your most important point you’d like to share with non-ADHD adults to help educate them and reduce stigma for us adults with ADHD?
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The only thing I would like to tell non-ADHD adults, is that I am not CRAZY! and I am not VIOLENT! I am just a normal human being with troubles on focusing.