Do You Feel Others Don ’t Understand You? Explain Adult ADHD

Part of #ExplainAdultADHD.  A campaign to reduce the ignorance, misinformation, and stigma against adults with ADHD. Do You Feel Others Don’t Understand You?   “Do I feel others don’t understand me? Yes and no. In this instance I’ll talk about the workplace because it is where I excel and thrive, so have no issue introducing it into the conversation with someone I’m likely to be working with for a while; puts me in context from the outset and let’s them know what they’re dealing with. Being one of the extremely talkative ADHDer’s (that has a love of verbal and written language, and enjoys playing with both) I’m generally pretty articulate and get feedback from time to time to say as much. Combined with the very visible excitability factor and I’d like to think I’m convincing too, because I certainly believe what I’m saying! The two words most often used by colleges to describe me over the last 20 years have been ‘determined’ and ‘passionate’. They know I’m high energy, talk lots and fast, am seriously committed to my vocation (human services) and take pride in running a tight ship. So in that regard, I think I’m very well understood. This is also why, when the ADHD thing comes up with someone that has known me a long time, it always surprises me that mostly they are caught off guard. Always to my amusement, it’s evident that soon as they start thinking about it...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Explain Adult ADHD To Non-ADHD Adults Source Type: blogs