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Consider this:

Most with ADHD are born with it. They don’t know any other world, like many colorblind don’t know they can’t see some colors. They feel just as normal as everybody, because what would they, there is no way to compare, so why diagnose and treat it anyway?

ADHD isn’t only a “now” problem. By small cuts it pushes into aggressive behaviors, megalomanias, depressions and even suicides (2x more incidence). Having ADHD means higher chance to abuse drugs, cheat on partners or die in a car crash due to reckless driving.

Managing ADHD isn’t only the drugs (and the trend is to avoid them unless necessary) but first and foremost a great deal of self acceptance. Small changes in behaviors can help alleviate ADHD symptoms and increase quality of life by removing those small cuts.

One of the symptoms or ADHD is ODD (not expanding acronym on purpose), and I believe ODD is exactly what prevents many ADHD folk from getting help they really could use.



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