How ADHD Changed My Life

Growing up I always knew that there was always something I had that made me different than to those in my grade. Different in other aspects, such as the way I think and the way I am in school, in terms of attentiveness and learning. It increasingly got difficult as the years went on, this was not just increasing laziness as my family and I had presumed it to be, as even when I had attempted to try and improve my grades in school, with all the extra help and all the studying that I could do it just was not enough. It was something wrong with me, I could not concentrate and keep things in my mind, I had always been very good with memorizing things, I always had an extraordinary memory, and then it happened, a day that changed my life forever,

It was very difficult for me to come through with the fact that I had ADHD at the beginning of it all, I hated taking medication for like the first week of it all, it made me feel abnormal, I had always felt fine, I always felt like I was a “normal” kid as in I did not feel like other kids which I have seen that have that have mental disabilities. The self-judgement I implemented onto myself was largely due to the misconception I had about ADHD at that time, and the fact that my late uncle had down syndrome and my little brother having autism, I was very much afraid in a way that I would not be able to live a “normal” life like they unfortunately have, I was thinking that it was the beginning of the end. However, things did not go from bad to worst as I had anticipated, they genuinely got better in ways I would have never imagined, as I had only presumed that this would enhance my grades and performance in school, but it expanded too much more than that, as my overall life improved