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Friday May 24th - 2:39pm
Career Day: I'm a Writer, and I Have ADHD
It’s Career Day at the middle school where my wife, Margaret, teaches. I’m here to tell these sixth, seventh, and eighth graders what it’s like being a writer for a living. I’m standing at a lectern in an empty classroom waiting for the first group of students to file in and I feel the sweat soaking through the back of my shirt. I fiddle with the...
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Sunday July 8th - 9:37pm
Running on Empty: Part Two
In last month's Part One post I was down in an insomnia-fueled, no-joke, no-metaphor, black hole of depression so deep, so wide, and so all-encompassing that there seemed no possible way out. As an ADHD guy who can sometimes make hyperactive look like standing still, I didn't stay holed up in my bed with my dark hopeless thoughts brooding by myself. Heck, no: I brought them...
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Tuesday June 5th - 9:58pm
Running on Empty: Part One
In last month's ADHD Dad post I dug a hole and put a tree in it. This month, I woke up to a much wider and deeper hole in the floor beside my bed.
It's Saturday, the morning I get to sleep in, but I ruined that by staying up most of the night reading, so even though it's 10 AM, I've only gotten my normal...
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Wednesday April 4th - 7:07am
Digging Deep for Peace of MindWith every grunting swing of the pick, I dig a hole deeper to bury my ADHD — my worry, my anxiety, and my memories of a life that never happened, but should have.
I swing the pick down harder than I need to and the head buries itself into the hard-packed dirt with a dark, gratifying thunk. I get a deep satisfaction from this. It’s like I’m stabbing some beast in its thick, vital gut.
Swing it down, thunk. Pull it up, and the rip of the roots being torn from their home makes it sweeter. Down and up again,...
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Wednesday February 29th - 5:08am
That's It - No School for You!"I let her down, believing my ADHD daughter had her school work under control because it was easier for me not to worry about it - father and daughter, tag-team procrastinating."
It’s 7:30 Sunday night when I tap on the bedroom door of my 16 year-old daughter, Coco. She looks up from the laptop on her desk, her forehead still furrowed in concentration from working on a PowerPoint project that’s due tomorrow and the thumb of her right hand twitching over her rollerball mouse.
"What?" she asks, her blue eyes under black- and purple-streaked hair darting from me...
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Wednesday January 25th - 9:42am
Piece of My Heart: Letting My ADHD Son Make His Own Mistakes"What's wrong with you?!" I yell at my 23-year-old ADHD son after a thoughtless incident with a tattoo gun. Then I remember myself at that age... and hope I can survive growing up all over again.
This week I got a middle-of-the-night call from our 23-year-old son, Harry, who moved to Hawaii almost a year ago.
"Hey, Dad? What do you think it is when your arm hurts bad and kind of swells up, like a pimple but bigger?" he asks. "Plus I think I’ve got a fever."
I tell him to get to an ER; he’s got an infection. Probably from that...
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Thursday December 15th - 10:27am
Notes from an ADHD Christmas Crash-Test DummyI am crazy. That is not debatable. But what's so strange about wanting my daughter to believe her ADHD dad is an unruffled, wise, power-tool-handy father figure this holiday season?
"Parenting is the greatest of all hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills." – Stephen King, Duma Key
I can't exactly see where I'm going while carrying this seven-foot pine tree, but I keep moving ahead to the Christmas tree check-out shack with our prize. My 16-year-old daughter, Coco, is behind me carrying extra decorating loot we've picked up. My daughter and I both have ADHD with co-morbid short-term memory and temper...
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Monday October 31st - 6:32am
Sweet 16 and ADHDJust last week, Coco was a 6-year-old Brownie camping in our back yard. Now she's 16 and I feel overwhelmed that we haven't done enough to prepare her, to make her safe in the real world with her ADHD.
"Do you ever feel like something bad is going to happen, but you know if it does everything will still be okay because you know everything's really basically good but you still feel really bad anyway?"
My daughter, Coco, who has attention deficit disorder like here dad, asks me on the way home from school. She rests her red and black Keds straight in front of her...
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Friday September 9th - 5:30pm
Is ADHD Family Life Messier or Richer?How I cope when attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) symptoms, family stress, and life's daily demands collide.
“Don’t you worry about a thing, ’cause every little thing is going to be all right.” -Bob Marley
“Mom says to tell you that now I have the most expensive hair in the house,” my daughter, Coco, tells me over the phone from our home in Georgia. Coco called me as soon as my wife, Margaret, brought her back from the salon where...
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Friday July 22nd - 2:47pm
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ADHD Procrastination: Sometimes I Even Postpone Thinking About How I Really FeelDo you ever procrastinate processing your emotions? After a recent stressful visit with my family, I've been keeping busy, staying focused on anything but how I feel.
"Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool." -Charlaine Harris (Dead and Gone)
I’m overdue on this blog post and a whole bunch of other things I’m writing. I should just sit down and type. But I can’t focus on that because I can’t make up my mind about calling my 23-year-old...
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