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A Cat With ADHD

Posted: 26th March 2012 by Daryl in Buck Normal, Building Up The ADHD Child, Funny Stuff, In School With ADHD, Talking About ADHD
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Be Gut Ripping Honest: What Do You Say?

Posted: 18th February 2012 by Daryl in Adult ADHD, Buck Normal, Building Up The ADHD Child, Diagnosing ADHD, For Teachers: Empowering the ADHD Student, Self Esteem
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It’s Question and Answer Time Don’t think about your answer to the question. Im trying to get to your gut level response. So tell me, what immediatly boiled up in your mind when you read it? Which one jumps out first? Give me that answer, not the answer you think you should give. Ready? Here [...]

What Does It Feel Like To Have ADHD

Posted: 8th February 2012 by Daryl in ADHD at Work, Adult ADHD, Buck Normal, Building Up The ADHD Child, Discipline, Disorganization, Perfectionist, Relationship Help, Self Esteem, Talking About ADHD
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Stacey Turis at www.staceyturis.com asked the question on her Facebook page, www.facebook.com/adhdsuperhero: What Does it Feel Like To Have ADHD? This was my answer: “Are You Paying Attention to What I’m Saying?” No. I’m paying attention to everything everyone in this restaurant is saying. The five tables around ours? Following their conversations. The person sitting [...]

World Changers, Celebrities and Fire Starters Gifted With ADHD: Bruce Jenner and David Neeleman

Posted: 6th February 2012 by Daryl in Adult ADHD, Buck Normal, Building Up The ADHD Child, Celebrity and Famous ADHD, For Teachers: Empowering the ADHD Student
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You or Your Child Diagnosed With ADHD? Feel Alone? Well You Are Not! It’s important to understand our roots, not just focus on the day to day trials and tribulations. It’s tough, knowing you or your child will wake up each day and view the world so differently. The sooner you embrace the crazy, beautiful, [...]

To Dither, Or Not To Dither : Indecisiveness and ADHD, Part 2

Posted: 3rd February 2012 by Daryl in Adult ADHD, Buck Normal, Building Up The ADHD Child, Indecisive, Issues and Problems, Perfectionist
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Yesterday, I read a post that prompted me to look closer at the word Dither. Loved it, because it prompted a couple of my own thoughts regarding Dithering. (Not that I ever dither, but I know people that do, like my friend and colleague Marti… Talk about a’dithering! And don’t even get me started on [...]

An Open Letter To Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg Regarding Education

Posted: 2nd February 2012 by Daryl in Buck Normal, Building Up The ADHD Child, For Teachers: Empowering the ADHD Student, In School With ADHD, Technology and ADHD
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I wrote this note last night on a Congrats post to Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook. It was meant as a great job/ encouragement comment. Now, if in one of your Hack-a-thon’s you give it the theme “Education” and challenge your people to build a never before imagined platform for public education that allows [...]

To Dither, Or Not To Dither : Indecisiveness and ADHD

Posted: 2nd February 2012 by Daryl in Adult ADHD, Buck Normal, For Teachers: Empowering the ADHD Student, Indecisive, Issues and Problems, Perfectionist
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I received an email notice that ADHD Strategies posted a new tip of the day and since I needed an excuse not to finish the project I’d already started delaying, I jumped over and started reading their Tip of the day #213: Dithering. It brought to mind a couple of thoughts and I wanted to [...]

An ARD, The Texas Education Agency, And A Well-Meant Insult

Posted: 20th January 2012 by Daryl in Buck Normal
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Originally Written: 1-27-2011 I reached my boiling over point two days ago, while in an ARD. I began to growl, as a TEA mandated statement was read, regarding the State of Texas’s classification of ADHD’ers. In this two paragraph statement, the word disability was used 5-7 times. Imagine being a 16 year old kid in [...]