ADHD touches your life: everything, everywhere, all at once
I found this quote by Linda Roggli and since I couldn't have said it better, I've pasted it here.
“ADHD... touches your life from the moment you wake up to the instant you fall asleep. Your health, personality and preferences, friendships and relationships — and truly everything else in between — is colored by your ADHD. It is there 24/7, 365 days a year, influencing every single part of you.”
https://www.additudemag.com/areas-of-life-health-relationships-career-adhd/
Topics she addresses are:
How ADHD Affects Overall Health
ADHD Influences Eating Behaviors
Adverse School Experiences with ADHD Are Common
How ADHD affects relationships
ADHD and Family
ADHD & Friendships
ADHD in Girls and Women
Time blindness
Sensory sensitivites
Rejection sensitivity
Feelings of shame
Linda also points to these exceptional strengths:
We are good in a crisis: Whether it’s a true emergency or a manufactured one, we tend to perform well under serious pressure. (Is it any wonder that so many firefighters have ADHD?15)
We are creative: We have a lot of great ideas, and we’re out-of-the-box thinkers. We like to hyperfocus for hours (a dopamine surge in itself) until we figure it out.
We are absolutely resilient: We fall off a horse or two, but we get back on every single time.