Many Ways to View ADHD

There are many ways to view ADHD.  Some view it as a disease.  Some view it as a disability. Some view it as a difference, but not a problem.   Some view it as a gift.

ADHD can give a person certain strengths, especially in creativity, and also in persistence in certain things they are interested in.   People with ADHD make people laugh by noticing connections that others don't.  ADHD also can give a person more energy than most other people (and this despite having less sleep).

ADHD also can make it hard to do certain things.  The degree to which those things are important are the degree which ADHD may be viewed as a disability.  Its hard to sit still.  Its hard to concentrate on certain things which one finds uninteresting.  Your mouth may say things or you may do things on the fly.  You go with your gut.  If your gut is right, great, you beat everyone else to the punch.  But if it isn't, you could get in trouble.  You can never make ADHD an excuse for doing the wrong thing, though.  ADHD never makes a wrong thing right, because if you try hard enough, you can do those things that you find difficult.   Maybe not consistently, but you can when it's important to you.

People with ADHD  do struggle with certain physical and especially neurological problems.  Things like legs that won't stay still at night, or a bladder that is hard to train to stay dry at night.  Asthma and allergies and eczema. Insomnia.  Tics.

 I think, as with everything, there is a balance to what ADHD is, and people who live with it, either in their own bodies, or in their households, have to come to a balanced view of what it is, in order to flourish.

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