I’ve been speaking with a lot of people lately and telling them that I’ve just released a book. When I tell them it’s about my personal story on managing and successfully working through Adult ADD, I get some very interesting reactions.
The most common reaction is “really, you have ADD”? In addition, I have also heard “how did you get rid of the disease”?
The first comment “really, you have ADD”, is something that I can take some pride in because it tells me that I have improved, grown and learned to manage ADD and that having it is not something obvious nor does it stick out like a sore thumb. The second comment “how did you get rid of the disease” is another reminder of just how uneducated our society is on ADD.
It made me think back to a quote I put in my book Pills Don’t Teach Skills by Dr. Gabor Mate from his book Scattered Minds; “ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment, a developmental delay”.
Part of the process of managing and reversing this impairment, is the continued work such as learning life skills as an example. These lessons on life skills and other things we can do to help reverse ADD gets the brain circuits firing and the brain has the ability to retain these lessons.
The next time someone talks about ADD or ADHD being a disease or something that it isn’t, remind them that it is “a reversible impairment, a developmental delay”. The battle against ADD can be won. What do you think about these comments I’ve heard on ADD?
