My "stupid" ADHD
I can remember growing up and hearing people saying, Hyperactive? ... "she should be in a special school, she is retarded, she is not like other children" ... Well I went through nursery school, then on to gr 1 through to the end of Matric and then on to college, without ever failing – with ADHD but because of Ritalin, because of a mother who believed in me and a doctor who knew what he was doing! When I started treatment for ADHD people even family stereotyped me and warned my mother about all the bad things regarding Ritalin – well thank goodness it supposedly stunted my growth. I am a 1.85m tall blonde woman with blue eyes. Addictive it is they would say – Really?!! then why would it only work for 3 hours at a time? And WHY would I not bother to remember to drink my pills on my own?? ADHD shows up in real life in a vast number of ways, and it’s sometimes hard to recognise the symptoms myself because I was born this way its my “normal” It has...