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What I have realized overtime is that desire to be normal just causes stress. One needs to admit that they are different from others and they will have to play the game [life] with the cards they are dealt with. ADHD is no disability IMO, but different enough from normal people to become very incompatible.

Just this acceptance to oneself relieves a lot of stress. But it comes with some experience and I guess most ADHD people would just feel inadequate during teenage and in university. Its horrible when you feel there is so much to do and you cannot accomplish most of it. Its only when you find/realize that there are people who would treat over-accomplishment in some aspects as a fair trade to be not able to be good at everything.

Workspaces/Life Partners/Friends -- not everyone will work with ADHD people. They need to understand that they will have to spend parts of their life experimenting and finding a environment where they are valued. I guess that is the cost of being different in anyway.




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