Dear Merely me: My adhd has struck again. I wrote you a fairly poignant letter and thought I had sent it correctly, it keeps saying my email address and my password do not match. It should, because since I have adhd desperately and have all my life, without medicin. I try to make it simple for me and my adhd memory, which is prodigious, but exasperating, and sometimes I just plain forget. Let me tell you how bad I can be. I have come out of the mall , got into another townand country chrysler that looked just like mine, tried to start the town and chrysler with my chrysler car keys, only finally realize I was not my car. I have done this with a grey escape and a few other cars. Yes I am naturally blond, but that is not what caused me to do that.. My car was new to, but I can only imagine what a person whom that car may have belonged to would have thought, had they come upon me trying to start their car with my new and actually a little nicer (once I focused) car. Can you imagine what they may have thought. Fortunately for me, I have alwyse realized it wasn*t my car and slipped out of theirs and into mine which would probably be very near. I have done that at least 3 times in my life. But to try and answer your question or query of blessing or curse on hyperfocus. I*d say blessing anyday. It happens to be people like that whom come up with cures for diseases for others, believe me when I say this. And yes it is flow, and it is beautiful and better than any drug I have been prescribed in the past by dentist etcetra. When I go to the libray I check out maybe 25 books all non fiction. I have this voracious appetite for knowledge,and I love it. I love my adhd brain, it makes me high without the drug. I am well aware of the cons of adhd, believe me, am I ever aware. We as a human species can only do the best with the cards we have been dealt. To me hyprfocus is a blessing, but I could certainly see where othere*s may see it in a different light. I know I exasperate people sometimes, but usually most people find the zillions of things that I think of as extremely interesting. I once went for a job interview when I was about 25 years old. I needed the job and talked laboriously and I thought interesting to the interviewer, whom at the end of approximately 1 hour of my ongoing 1 way conversation. Politely and kindly said to me. Mr. I really honestly cannot hire you for this position, but I could listen to you talk all day long. I know he meant it in the good spirit that he stated it. I loved it. It allowed me to know that I was quite intelligent after having been told I was both stupid and ugly by an Uncle that had a need to try and destroy others, he was quite successful on many fronts. He didn*t destroy me, but wow did he ever do a number on my head. But that is another therapy session. I hope you get to read this post. I am not very good with the computer, yet, it is so daunting to me. I have so much stimulus going on in my head and I am not talking Obama stimulus, although that might be an interesting change, but nonetheless, I hope this post gets through. Maybe this will be a learning and enjoyable experience for me. I am a bit leary of the computer tech /world, because it truely is invisible in some sense. Have a nice evening Merely me....You have a very lovely picture posted. I do not yet know how to put my photo or anything really in there. I will though...I am just very slow in getting things done, I suppose if you had a million things you want to get done today, you probably may be slow as well. I am very sorry for your Mother and that situation, how very sad. I met such a lovely wonderfully kind elderly schitzaphrenic lady. I hope she is better now.
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. It is always good to hear how characteristics of ADHD impact people's lives, both good and bad.
I also wanted to let you know, I have also gotten into another person's car (on more than one occasion) and did not realize until I was fully sitting in the car, with the door closed. As with you, luckily the owner did not come out of the store before I had realized my error and found my own car.
Eileen