In my work with adults with ADD I hear many stories of school days gone wrong. People tell these stories much in the same manner as victims of trauma. There is a numb period when I hear all the facts. Not much emotion, just a long narrative of what it was like to be in school. Gradually, as I empathize with what it must have been like for them, the emotion begins to emerge: the hurt, the anger, the disappointment, the fear.
