ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

by Penn Holderness

Brené Brown has taught us, guilt is feeling bad3 about something you’ve done, while shame is feeling bad about who you are.

Dr. Hallowell describes people with ADHD as having a Ferrari engine in a race car brain with bicycle brakes.

“What we have is an abundance of attention, the very opposite of a deficit problem. Our challenge is to control it.” —Dr. Edward Hallowell

The phrase “out of sight, out of mind” was probably coined by someone who had ADHD

Dr. Caldwell described emotions in the ADHD person’s brain as a very strong dye in the water of the fishbowl. You add some red dye to the bowl, and very quickly the entire bowl turns crimson. Everywhere you look, the water is red, and everything you look at through that water also looks red. But then, if another drop of dye is added to the water, the water instantly switches over to the new color. Now nothing looks red at all anymore. Presto chango.

ADHD is both a massive wallop and an asset if you learn to work with it.

Your symptoms are involuntary, but their severity and frequency can be managed.

Compare leads to despair.

“What is creativity but impulsivity gone right?”

riding horses.

I dunno, that kinda makes sense, just like sports

Cure for a nosebleed: sticking a red-hot poker up the nose.

also makes sense, cauterization, just not as pleasant as current techniques!

“What does ‘done’ look like?”