Have you ever shown brilliance and extraordinary talent and yet less talented peers passed you in the long run?
In any endeavor, sports, dating, work and even tinkering in a hobby with the hopes of accomplishing anything, there is nothing more important than mastering basics and fundamentals. Undoubtedly, you’ve heard this before, but do you really know what this means – especially in the context of ADD and ADHD?
You can have incredible talent mixed with ADHD risk taking and impulsivity and you can do absolutely amazing things which blow the minds of any spectators, but at the end of the day, most times you will fall short of your desired outcome, you will lose! You will fall flat on your face. And, it will hurt! Sorry, I know that is painful to read, but you and me, we know it’s true. Don’t we?
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To say that Gina Pera is an amazing woman is to understate the awesomeness of this woman, her pure heart and what she has done for the ADHD community. She is intelligent, she is stubborn, she is strong and she is passionate and most of all she sincerely cares. When you put all of that together, as an advocate and supporter of those with ADHD, you have someone who has become a voice of scope and scale beyond “I hope you feel better” to “let’s do something about it!”
Are you the only one you think about all day? When you go out to buy Christmas presents do you think of what others would like to have, or do you think of what you would like to give them, or better yet, what you would prefer to have? Do you interrupt others questions with questions of your own that concern you? Do you interrupt in general before others have expressed all they have to say on a subject? Do you consider the ramifications of something before you know the complete story? Do you think you know how a movie is going to end before you have seen it? Do you judge a book by its cover? Do you have an opinion about everything and you believe your opinion is always the right opinion? Do you…
It is amazing what 20 or 30 years can do! When I was a kid ADD ADHD was relatively unknown to the common populace. There is an ever growing awareness of ADD ADHD and studies are finding many children and adults are going undiagnosed. What was once considered a myth or a popular ‘made up’ illness is finally becoming recognized and
