When I was 10 years old, I was diagnosed with dyslexia, and a motor-visual impairment that made it difficult for me to copy the lessons teachers would write on the blackboard into my notebook. (My ADHD diagnosis would arrive twenty years later.) To counter my dyslexia, my parents were advised to give me
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Remember the phrase “use the right tool for the job? Well, when you’re ADD/HD, that’s never been more true. For someone with ADD/HD, tools can be the difference between productivity and a wasted day. For me, I know that I’m able to control my Faster Than Normal brain and use my
Ask any techie the #1 way to cure a slow or sluggish computer, and they’ll all agree: Reboot it. Rebooting a machine cleans out all the RAM, starts you fresh, and bumps up speed and processing power, all of which can slow down after being used for long periods of
Growing up, “calm” was rarely used to describe me. Quite the opposite. I was hyperactive, always ready with a comment or a question, asked “why” probably 200 times a day. I had a constant goal of making people laugh, of being the class clown, of not being normal. Years later of
Last year, I had two weeks left on deadline for a book I was writing. My publisher was getting antsy, as I hadn’t sent her anything yet. I’d done all the research, the problem was sitting down and getting the writing done. But I wasn’t worried. I’d been here before.
That “out of control” feeling. For me, there’s nothing worse than feeling like things are out of control. When you have ADD or ADHD, control is your first course of survival. Control lets you breathe, it lets you focus, and it lets you prepare for what comes next, and what
