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> If we are successful with ADHD, then we would only be more successful if we didnt have ADHD.

Indeed, ADHD is a bane, not a superpower. Yet, more? I don't know. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, which in turn makes you able to overcome ordeals and achieve things, sometimes worse, sometimes better, and anyway differently. This is how I live with ADHD, how I learned to work around or abuse it, how I made it a part of me.

PS: the acronym is only correct when you are hyperactive in addition to the attention deficit part. the H trait is not always present — or at least not as prevalent — which sometimes makes ADD hard to detect.



ADD == ADHD-PI now, there is no ADD anymore


Only psychiatrists and others in the medical profession still call it ADD. It all boils down to a diagnostic/billable code anyway. 314.00, 314.01, etc.




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