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This blog will discuss the impact of AD/HD on my overall life in the past year, since I've become very open about it, and for the first time, told my employer about and started an education forum at my job for people with disabilities...

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AD/HD. I wasn't diagnosed until the end of my 20s. I wasn't even aware that I was and later why I was different until my daughter was diagnosed and I started to realized that many of her issues I had. If she had AD/HD, I had to have AD/HD. Gosh did I wish I'd known this earlier, but it's never too late to learn new things about yourself.

The long walk in the dark. As a kid I was suspended and expelled from school numerous times. I was a very unhappy child and I just didn't fit in with my peers.… Continue

Migraines. Again, I don't remember how young I was when I started experiencing migraines, I don't actually even remember the first one. What I remember is thinking, and I still think this, that I can even tell where the gravity pulls more in the house. As a child, the only place I was comforable was below the toilet on the cold bathroom floor while I vomitted until my stomach couldn't heave anymore. It was awful, more awful for a child to experience.

Migraines are now known to be heriditary. My… Continue

Asthma. When I was too young to remember, I just don't recall whether I was 6,7,8,9 or 10 actually, but I was still young enough to want to play and run around but it's the day I couldn't I remember the most.

When I had my first asthma attack I was terrified. I was an active kid and unafraid of everything but the dark. My lungs suddenly closed for a reason unknow that day and I started to turn blue. We had no health care insurance then, but my grandmother was a retired nurse who took care of an… Continue