ADHD and ME!

So I am sure the few of you who were there to see me do my presentation on my research topic were like wow this girl is crazy but really I have just been affected by a lot in my short nineteen years of living. ADHD and me is a blog I have been wanting to write but telling myself I shouldn't because it embarasses me just like it does the majority of teens with it. ADHD to most people just seems like a problem that kids have that causes them to be hyper and inattentive, and as true as that is, that is not all there is to it. I have ADHD and so does my twin brother so I have been living through all the terrors and yes the few blessings of having ADHD. Firstly just to help a few understand how it can serioulsy affect a person, think about something you love to do! ... ok got it! The one thing that I love to do is read, and I don't mean like read magazines, or the paper, or facebook or anything like that I mean like sit down and read in depth mystery novels. I know you thinking well yeah I know people who like to read well then my question is do they have ADHD? If they do then you should ask them about how difficult it is for them to read even though they really enjoy it. I honestly can be reading for ten or twenty minutes and pause for a minute and realize that I have not retain a thing that I read and that is with things that I want to read so can you imagine what it is like with things that I don't want to read. Its a little more than frustrating. The only good thing that I have noticed that I have learned from having ADHD is how to handle others with ADHD especially children which is why I have chosen to teach early childhood education. I am living through my problem and not letting it control me.