ADHD
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I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was a kid, but my mom just decided I was an asshole and wouldn't put me on medication, haha. She would invent games like, "See how many times you can run around the block", "how many times can you jump on one foot", and a host of others. Eventually I would just tire myself out as opposed to driving everyone around me nuts. She'd sit and read, and I would zoom by her hellbent on beating "the record".
She put all of my energy into "games" to me, but I saw them as challenges and being that I always wanted to win at everything it didn't even matter if there was (and almost always) no competition to save me from ever losing, haha. "See if you can do as many dishes as your brother did when he was your age!" Seh would say that with a big smile on her face, and I bought that shit hook line and sinker, hahah.
Eventually it kind of worked itself out, I wasn't so much ADHD as I was just extremely over-active and still am. I could and still can focus when I want to, it just had to be things that interested me otherwise I'd rather spend my time doing something that I could get something out of.
I'm sure it's diagnosed correctly in some cases, but I know it's also been quite the catch-all at times.
Oh that and I am an asshole.
- So, basically this works for someone who is very competitive AND hyperactive. They probably go together injuhls
- many cases.
Also, hehe at you for falling for those things.juhls - Plus she also just wouldn't accept the fact that I couldn't read a book for school, but I could read books just fine if I picked it out, haha.********
- picked it out. Which helped me develop speed reading at quite a young age, haha. I would finish a book - and so I wouldn't get another one********
- get another one, I'd go back to the beginning and sit and day dream about other stuff slowly turning pages like I was reading but would be able to talk about it.********
- Yea man, kids are dumb. I can't wait to pull shit like this on our kids.********
- I mean ... what?!********
- loljuhls
- I think most guys think of children as some kind of experiment, hehjuhls
- I always thought it would be funny to teach a kid the exact opposite meaning of words before they go to pre-school.********
- Like whenever they would do something wrong I'd go, "Yes! That is absolutely waht you should do! "********
- "No, no, no! Do not brush your teeth!" - Kid maniacally starts brushing teeth as it thinks it should, hahahh.********
- oh dear, hahahjuhls