“I realized I was the only person who could understand a particular songwriter’s lyrics — no one else could! He had ADHD, so I thought — hmmm, maybe I do also. (The lyrics are very picture oriented, rather than straightforward. But easy for me!)”
“My ‘Aha’ moment was right after I transferred from a 2-year to a 4-year college. In community college I had a 4.0, but suddenly I found myself unable to pick up a book and read it, despite my interest in the subject matter. I would re-read the same passage over and over and would get nothing from it. My first semester yielded Bs and Cs — and for a perfectionist that was utter failure. I was desperate for some insight and Googled everything under the sun.
I highlighted practically the first 2/3 of the book as it described my son perfectly — and then cried through the last 1/3 of the book as it described my life virtually to the last detail. It was 1994; my son was 10 and I was 42. It changed my life forever.”“The same doctor who treated me for my major depression and social phobia since I was a teenager tested me as an adolescent, because many of my struggles persisted without the typical symptoms of depression.
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