ADHD
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Long Time, No Blog (Progress report)
Keep telling myself lately to start writing here again. So, here I am! Finally. I’m back. Whether or not it makes a difference for anyone other than me. What I mean by that is the realization that writing in this blog is good for me at the very least, because it allows me to look…
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Newton’s First Law of Motion
“An object that is at rest will stay at rest unless a force acts upon it.” I watched the movie “Wonder” today. It makes reference to this law when panning through an overhead view of a classroom, centering on the main character, August (Auggie) Pullman, a boy with a major facial deformity, sitting at his…
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Building a Better Me
“Who are you that lies When you stare in my face?Telling me that I’m just a trace Of the person I once was‘Cause I just can’t tell If you’re telling the truth or a lieOn you I just can’t rely, After all you’re just a piece of glass” “Piece of Glass” by Caedmon’s Call “I…
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How did I get here?
You may ask yourselfWhere does that highway go to?And you may ask yourselfAm I right? Am I wrong?And you may say to yourself“My God! What have I done?” Once in a Lifetime by The Talking Heads Since getting diagnosed, I have spent the following weeks looking back at my life and seeing a lot of…
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Projecting my future
Projects and essays have been my nemesis since I can remember. It’s hard enough time just figuring out where to start, but then I have to keep it going without getting distracted, not to mention that it can be almost impossible when it’s a subject that I don’t care about. It doesn’t take long for…
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Loud and Proud
Anyone who knows me knows that I can be…’loud’. I’ve realized that it’s most likely because ADHD makes it hard to regulate my emotions properly, so I can get excited easily, especially when talking about something that interests me. I’m hoping to be able to transfer that energy here writing in this blog! What I’ve…
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Adding a Kickstart
I haven’t had much of a history with medications until recently. Growing up, I never got regularly prescribed them, and I was the kind of person that didn’t really take them when it came to headaches or colds either. It’s not like I was avoiding them because of a fear of what they would to…
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Here’s my intro…
Hello readers! My name is DJ. I am a Canadian currently living the student life. This blog is about my journey in growing up as both a child and adult dealing with untreated ADHD, and the journey that I have been on for the last 4 years since I was diagnosed at the age of…
Suddenly Delayed 