Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2012 8:00:04 GMT
This year I was diagnosed with ADHD combined type after years of being mis-labbeled with personality disorders. I already had four diagnoses so it didn't come as much suprise really. See when I was 19 I was diagnosed with autism, Tourette syndrome, Obsessive compulsive disorder and dyspraxia.
Day to day life can be quite a challenge for me as my overactivity and impulsive behaviour can get me in a lot of trouble. Thankfully I have never been in trouble with the law and I hope that I never will be but it has come close... (anyone else started a random fight in a shop??)
I live in supported living having spent my last three years in residential care. I prefer supported living because it is less 'sterile' and the 'elf and safety' isn't as over the top (although we aren't allowed to have a ladder with more than three steps...) My biggest problem with my ADHD is my extremely low self esteem. Like most people undiagnosed as kids, I was often told off or made fun of for my problems, my teachers couldn't understand my 'weird' behaviour and as a result I started to think thatI must be insane or something. I didn't do well at school because I have mild learning difficulties and I left with no GCSEs. Oh well I went to college and got my A grade in English so I am not that bothered!
Things that people take for granted are hard for me. I can't relax (what is the meaning of this word?) so I am constantly on the go. I get so distracted by silly things (from squirells to a leaf dropping from a tree...) that I have been known to fall off my bike into a bush! I can, to quot my carers 'talk for England' and when I start talking it is hard for anyone to get a word in!
I was going to write more but theres lots of cars going past my window and they are distracting me... now there's a bus... I'll write some more later.
Day to day life can be quite a challenge for me as my overactivity and impulsive behaviour can get me in a lot of trouble. Thankfully I have never been in trouble with the law and I hope that I never will be but it has come close... (anyone else started a random fight in a shop??)
I live in supported living having spent my last three years in residential care. I prefer supported living because it is less 'sterile' and the 'elf and safety' isn't as over the top (although we aren't allowed to have a ladder with more than three steps...) My biggest problem with my ADHD is my extremely low self esteem. Like most people undiagnosed as kids, I was often told off or made fun of for my problems, my teachers couldn't understand my 'weird' behaviour and as a result I started to think thatI must be insane or something. I didn't do well at school because I have mild learning difficulties and I left with no GCSEs. Oh well I went to college and got my A grade in English so I am not that bothered!
Things that people take for granted are hard for me. I can't relax (what is the meaning of this word?) so I am constantly on the go. I get so distracted by silly things (from squirells to a leaf dropping from a tree...) that I have been known to fall off my bike into a bush! I can, to quot my carers 'talk for England' and when I start talking it is hard for anyone to get a word in!
I was going to write more but theres lots of cars going past my window and they are distracting me... now there's a bus... I'll write some more later.