Re:get rid of shitty teachers (Score 1)

As a kid and a young adult, I was just like you. I couldn't quite fathom it back then. My way of describing the sensation is like having someone who constantly taps you on the shoulder to ask you questions about something entirely different than you're trying to focus on. For instance, while walking from the living room to pick something up from the kitchen, I could forget why I was going to the kitchen at all because I spotted a piece of paper with a logo on it which reminded me of unpaid bills. While trying to find my bills (all in unsorted piles all over the apartment, of course), I would be reminded of something else, etc. Several hours later, having done nothing of relevance, I would start to wonder why my stomach was growling, walk up to the kitchen and stare into my empty fridge.

I, too, wouldn't have been able to read a post as long as yours through without taking breaks. Now, thanks to 90 mg of methylphenidate every morning, I had no such difficulties, even though people are moving in the background and I have a hum of background noise here at the office - well drowned by my headphones, though.

Of course, everyone have these symptoms to a lesser or greater extent, and to be diagnosed you need to be on the 'wrong' side of the cut-off point, that's the definition of ADHD/ADD, at least here in Sweden. "Now", you say, "this happens to me, too! ADHD/ADD-people are just lazy bums". Sure, it happens to you too. It most probably doesn't happen all the time, every day. If it does, I recommend seeking treatment.

I have an IQ of 150+, and I am well liked and sociable. I have strong communication skills and I am very good at what I do. Before I was 'diagnosed', I lost a jobs, several girlfriends and lots of friends, I slipped into several depressions and I flunked university bad, twice. My father has had to lend me money through parts of my life, and for a couple of years I gave him control of my economy, just for my bills to be paid.

90 mg of methylphenidate each morning has given me the opportunity to get up every morning and go to work (because I'm so exhausted when it wears off in the evening that my day has a, for me, unprecedented regularity). It has given me the opportunity to do my job well all the time, every day, because I don't have to depend on the "good days" to get stuff done. It has given me the opportunity to start a family which I am about to do, because with methylphenidate, I am startingly like a dependable adult and not a 32-year old impulsive teenager unable to shoulder responsibility.

I am able to look further than trying to have clean socks in the morning and trying to pay the bills. At last, I am able to realise my potential and I am able to dream of a normal life.