When my son Markus was diagnosed with ADHD at 12, his therapist told me that my job as his mother was to reduce his expectations so he wouldn't be disappointed by life. Who in their right mind would tell their child that? Instead, I fired her. I didn’t know anything about ADHD but what I was intuitively certain of was that she was dead wrong!
Eight months later I was diagnosed with ADHD. No surprise there as ADHD is as heritable as height. Apple, meet tree. That’s when it dawned on me that had my mother taken this same psychologist’s advice when I was a child, I would have never made it through college, law school or graduate law school. (If you knew my mom, you’d know better… well, again, apple ---> tree!) Right then and there is when I made the commitment to learn everything I could about what ADHD actually looked like in the real world, because so many of the professionals I consulted with didn’t seem to have a clue.
This group is for smart, high-ability ADD/ADHD (diagnosed or suspecting) women who see their symptoms as more positive than negative and want to live to their full potential. Bottom line, we're not meant to fit in, so let's work on standing out.
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