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Ronbell

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It's true. Like she says in her video about needing things to be clean and organized to work...I'm similar. If there aren't any prime conditions for doing something, I will avoid doing it.

For example, I have a second laptop that I use for work, that has some forms in it that I need to fill out. It is also sitting in a bag, not on my desk or somewhere easily accessed. I have avoided filling out those forms because I don't want to go through the effort of literally taking the 2 seconds to take it out. There are many little things like that in my job, and I thank goodness that I do have an assistant.
 

CarlaMarie

Member
I wasn't going to say anything I was really trying not to comment on every thread but the reason is I am chatty. I can not keep my mouth shut (or hands from typing) sometimes it is one of my diagnoises. I am adhd. I have it, I admit it. I find I struggle to manage it. I wish I had a personal assistant, a personal chef, a maid, an organizor, a personal trainer but I am not indepantantly wealthy. I am blessed to have a husband who gets "it" now. He doesn't get mad at me anymore when I have a dozen creative projects going at the same time and can't complete one. I'm really not lazy I just get completely and utterly overwhelmed, or distracted and then I hyperfocus on something that isn't important. I can laugh at myself. He stays out of it keeps the house picked up and the kids on a schedule. Things I just can't seem to do consistantly. I do my best. He happens to love those qualities in me that make me me. He quit trying to change me and I try to moderate because I really want to finish stuff.

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Ok, I'm triggered. Trauma bubble possible. I struggle with this so bad and that is why I reached out to a forum like this.To get through my day without driving myself crazy. My last kid went to kindergarden and I am home and I want be home what I am is an artist and I have everything I need at home. My husband works from home and he travels so working outside the home isn't reallly an option. My life and my time are completely unmanagable. I am driven by 100 forms of distraction. I take stratera it helps some of the syptoms like concentration but I cannot take the others like adderall I like them too much. I just flashed back to what I went through without any diagnoisis for any of the learning disabilities I had. I compensated. I was dyslexic. I never knew. Somehow I managed to graduate highschool and get some college (I avoided math and english). Thank goodness my kids don't have to go through what I did. Ahhh... I am breathing.
 
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