Also FYI the ADHD subreddit is hilarious. We're so eager to dump feelings in 5000 word posts but NOBODY there can read any of it because it's too long.
We need to hire some normal folk to come in and TL;DR that shit for us.
I read them, especially if they're 5000 words long. It's been subbed to r/ADHD for years for the education. I'm an older "neuro-typical" man, but my 17 y/o nephew has ADHD and I want to learn everything I can because he's my best bud, and I've been his primary male example since he was knee high to a grasshopper.
Problem is I'm a retired airline pilot so squared away you can't get a pin up my ass with a jackhammer, and he's ADHD with all that entails, so I've needed continual help not taking his deal like an endless series of "fuck yous." r/ADHD is the best kind of insight because it's first person "day in the life," rather than clinical. Every parent of an ADHD kid should be reading it.
For what it's worth, as a 20yo with severe ADHD who's finally managed to secure a modicum of success in life through meds and therapy, please keep doing what you're doing.
The one thing that I always wished I had growing up was somebody who even tried to understand what I was going through in school. I love my parents a whole lot, but they never believed me when I told them that I had tried to do an assignment, but it just... never got done. I spent hours sometimes, just staring at a blank page in my room trying to will myself to write a paper. In the absence of distractors, I just got distracted by my own thoughts.
If I even just had somebody to vent to about this stuff growing up, it would have taken so much weight off my shoulders. I'm glad your nephew has someone like you. It makes a huge difference, dude.
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u/Aneurysm-Em May 30 '17
Also FYI the ADHD subreddit is hilarious. We're so eager to dump feelings in 5000 word posts but NOBODY there can read any of it because it's too long.
We need to hire some normal folk to come in and TL;DR that shit for us.