Comments on: ADHD vs ‘Inside-the-Box’ Thinkers – A Personal Story

By: Mariah

Mariah — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 22:34:08 +0000

Wow! Thank you for sharing your story. I can relate.

By: Danica Surette

Danica Surette — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:27:25 +0000

Bless you for acknowledging this truth. I will post this on my blog, tourettemama2012.blogspot.ca, as my daughter has tourette syndrome, ADD and OCD.

By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:14:33 +0000

Wow. Thank you for this. I can relate to this! I cannot imagine NOT using metaphors-I learned so much from your essay. Am truly grateful to have read this. This was so key for me “translating my thoughts to a boxed-in mind. So much effort and so little result. In the meantime, I work and listen all day to other people and I understand them so perfectly, including what they are saying in-between the lines.” Please write more about this. Why “anonymous”-if you had a web site I would seek you out and read all you had to say: you are very wise. And I can relate to Christina and “neurotypicals”-What people call “friends”-usually don’t “get” it-am shocked by betrayals. We need you, Anonymous!

By: Christina

Christina — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:51:48 +0000

I used to feel like I was speaking a different language with other people or like I was from a different planet than them. Why couldn’t people understand what I was saying?? I also find it ironic that these other people can get and keep respectable jobs and in general be more ‘successful’ in life and I can’t. I was eventually (at 31) diagnosed with Asperger’s. I wondered if I might have ADD but I was ‘tested’ and they said I probably don’t. I imagine you and I would get along and I think it’s great that you have others like you in your life. I hope to find others like me. It’s a lonely life being surrounded by neurotypicals. Thank you for sharing your story.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:37:16 +0000

Very recognisable and good of you to share it! It is so unfair! Last night I dreamt a “normal” person ending up in a colony of morons and being dubbed abnormal. They fed him drugs so he’d become more normal. That probably won’t happen, but it was a fun thinking it through.

By: RJ Edwards

RJ Edwards — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:31:35 +0000

I identify with so much of that. I went a bir further in school (waste of time and money?), but only because it seemed preferable to the agony of trying to find anf fit in to a job without a credential that would speak for itself. The credential can’t do that, of course — that seems obvious now.
Incidentally, what’s your experience been with meds? I use them, and they are effective in the same way coffee was in school, but I think they cause further alienation from people, seemingly amplifying and exacerbating my “spaceman” communication style.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:55:57 +0000

Wow I thought you were chatting about me Though I am 46 years old and I was just about 2 hours ago told by my mother is all I have to do is fit in with the family(does that mean I do not fit in?LOL wow after 46 years it is now official! Wow I work with people that have schizophrenia depression bipolar all day long and they get me and treat me well could I hope that one day my own family could do this for me? Ok I will lower my expectations! 🙂 though sad but true it is!
As far as writting wow do I know the block I just really started back up since November 14th I wrote a tiny bit but not much at all. I think people understand what I am saying when I write. But when I talk people (ok I will use my family for instance since it has been such recent episodes) they seem to not understand what I am saying and when they state something to me it is like they feel the need to repeat it to me or think I do not understand and I truly do get it but If I tell them that I understand then they get defensive and state that I am anxious.
So your writting came at perfect timing for me and be honest I found my self laughing at how very familiar what you spoke of was so identical to what I have gone through the last 46 years of my life.
S thanks bunches for your unblocked writtings!

By: sagar

sagar — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:05:07 +0000

nice one…