“Girls with ADHD Need to Hear You Say These 5 Things”
“I wish I had grown up hearing the following words of encouragement – the things all girls with ADHD need to hear to build their self-esteem and avoid viewing their symptoms as character flaws.”
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I am now 81 years old. I was diagnosed with ADHD in my 50s. I also have dyscalculia. As I struggled with math, my father, who was a science and math whiz, told me a) I wasn’t trying hard enough b) I was afraid of math, uh, yeah, c) I had my head in the clouds,(duh!),I wasn’t paying attention (of course!). When I was a student at Cal, I had a nuclear physicist as my physics professor. This was 15 years after the bombing of Hiroshima, and he was part of that team, BTW. At the end of the semester, he called me into his office and told me, “You understood all the concepts, you took every test, you turned in all your homework. However, all your calculations were wrong. I should fail you, but I’m going to give you a D. You’re an English major and I’m sure you don’t want to have to take this class over again.” Bless him! It’s hard to be a bright kid and hear all the discouraging things people told me. That professor did one of the nicest things anyone had ever done for me. He respected me, and he understood. Now, in the age of computers and calculators, I don’t worry about basic math. As for algebra, I’d rather do geometry, thak you very much. At least I could see a picture of what I was doing!