I’m so excited to share a guest blog post this week from one of my favorite colleagues, Alan Brown, creator of ADD Crusher™ Videos & Tools!
We ADDers are at a disadvantage from the get-go, so we have no business adding more troubles to our plate. Yet we do. The many things we do TO ourselves – or don’t do FOR ourselves – make our ADHD worse, or just seem worse. Here are five such things, and some fixes…
Changing a lifetime’s worth of self-destructive habits takes effort. You have to push yourself to contribute to something big: a community, a cause, a belief system.
If your children grow up with a constant soundtrack of those exclamations and reprimands, they will become accustomed to thinking of themselves as the mess-ups, the problem-causers, the trouble-makers. There’s no telling how deep the scars of negative self-image can go in a sensitive child.
When you’re in a relationship with a rapid-fire thinker, you need to understand that you can’t fix them.
People with ADHD have fascinating differences in brain chemistry and thought creation patterns, which yield valuable traits: rapid thought, original and innovative idea creation… There are also some aspects of this brain type that clash with the behaviors and expectations of those who don’t have it.
