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Re: ADD & ADHD and low self esteem

Posted by CarolAnn on January 8, 2000, at 15:47:09

In reply to Wow! same problem., posted by Janice on January 8, 2000, at 13:18:11

Having only recently discovered my ADD, I have been pondering my childhood, connecting symptoms that I have now with the same type of things I was doing then, which were not diagnosable, since know one knew back then that there was such a thing as ADD W/O hyperactivity.
Anyway, what I see looking back are all these ADD behaviors that to the outside eye would have just looked like weirdness or laziness or something. I know that I *always* felt that I was so totally different from other kids, that there must *really* be something wrong with me. Lacking insight of course,over years of my childhood, I began to assume that the "something wrong" had to be my own fault. And it doesn't help to live in a family who see the differences but can't understand it and also assume that it is something you are "doing", rather then something you need help with. How could I *not* develope low self-esteem? I would bet that any ADD'er or ADHD'er could find similarities to this story if they thought about it long enough. Any comments or additional thoughts?CarolAnn


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