Adhd Quotes

“Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It is growing up different. It is extreme hypersensitivity. It is a bottomless pit of feeling you're failing, but three days later, you feel you can do anything, only to end the week where you began. It is not learning from your mistakes. It is distrusting people because you have been hurt enough. It is moments of knowing your pain is self inflicted, followed by blaming the world. It is wanting to listen, but you just can’t anymore because your life has been to full of people that have judged you. It is fighting to be right; so for once in your life someone will respect and hear you for a change. It is a tiring life of endless games with people, in order to seek stimulus. It is a hyper focus, so intense about what bothers you, that you can’t pay attention to anything else, for very long. It is a never-ending routine of forgetting things. It is a boredom and lack of contentment that keeps you running into the arms of anyone that has enough patience to stick around. It wears you out. It wears everyone out. It makes you question God’s plan. You misinterpret everything, and you allow your creative mind to fill the gaps with the same old chains that bind you. It narrows your vision of who you let into your life. It is speaking and acting without thinking. It is disconnecting from the ones you love because your mind has taken you back to what you can’t let go of. It is risk taking, thrill seeking and moodiness that never ends. You hang your hope on “signs” and abandon reason for remedy. It is devotion to the gifts and talents you have been given, that provide temporary relief. It is the latching onto the acceptance of others---like a scared child abandoned on a sidewalk. It is a drive that has no end, and without “focus” it takes you nowhere. It is the deepest anger when someone you love hurts you, and the greatest love when they don't. It is beauty when it has purpose. It is agony when it doesn’t. It is called Attention Deficit Disorder.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.”
― Julia Cameron, The Prosperous Heart

“The children who need love the most will always ask for it in the most unloving ways”
― Russel Barkley

“I'm ADD and psychic. I know things ahead of time but lose track of which is which.”
― S. Kelley Harrell

“Taken together, it’s almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That’s because your mind is hardwired for ancient Greek. And the ADHD-you’re impulsive, can’t sit still in the classroom. That’s your battlefield reflexes. In a real fight, they’d keep you alive. As for the attention problems, that’s because you see too much, Percy, not too little. Your senses are better than a regular mortal’s.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“My room is the safest place my body has. My mind doesn’t really have a safe place.”
― Anna Whateley

“Do you think I'm weird because I'm wired, or wired because I'm wierd?”
― Jack Gantos, What Would Joey Do?

“The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future”
― Stefan Molyneux

“You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your dealing with symptoms and until you understand that you will always try to find sane explanations among insane behaviors. You will always have unreachable standards and disappointments. If you want to survive in a marriage to someone that has a disorder you have to judge their actions from a place of realistic expectations in regards to that person's upbringing and diagnosis.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There’s a huge difference for taking responsibility for one’s actions, and taking credit, and in this scenario I think we need to give credit where credit is due. I won’t take responsibility for my teacher’s drinking problem, but I will take credit for it.”
― Benjamin Tomes, Confessions of the Unmedicated Mind; Growing up with ADHD, before ADHD, Volume 1: Home

“What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do not attend to the things said to them, because they are always fully engrossed with the things they are doing. For indeed few men are idle in democratic nations; life is passed in the midst of noise and excitement, and men are so engaged in acting that little remains to them for thinking. I would especially remark that they are not only employed, but that they are passionately devoted to their employments. They are always in action, and each of their actions absorbs their faculties: the zeal which they display in business puts out the enthusiasm they might otherwise entertain for idea.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Eden," Cyrus snapped bringing her back to the present. "I have a sword pointed at you. Will you please focus”
― Samantha Young, Blood Past

“What you feed, Grows
What you starve , Dies
Stop feeding your brain with all sorts of information and a constant reminding conversation about your miserable or vulnerable lifestyle, how people wronged you, how all they did was hurting you!

Let your brain starve and heal”
― Himmilicious

“I can be extra sensitive to rejection, even when it isn't actually rejection.”
― Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

“s. “Mom, I feel my ADHD less when I only have
things I need and love in my room. It already feels much
better in there, and I haven’t finished yet.”
― Annie Eklöv, Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms

“I'm over it. All the little costs of having ADHD that add up in the long run. Lost customers. Overdue bills. Replacement phone chargers. Time spent looking for things. The way it makes me feel, like a child. As if everyone else is a real adult and I'm just pretending. The frustration that I can't do the simple, everyday things that most people can. Like laundry, and making phone calls, and remembering to take out something from the freezer for dinner. It's the missed deadlines for opportunities I could've had. The broken relationships. How people think I'm lazy and selfish. How they think I don't care. How I think I'm lazy and selfish, even though I know I care.”
― Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

“If our plan today is to write three thousand words, rock a presentation with our leadership team, and catch up on our email, and we successfully accomplish all of those, we were perfectly productive. Likewise, if we intend to have a relaxing day and manage to do absolutely nothing, we're again perfectly productive. Being busy doesn't make us productive. It doesn't matter how busy we are if that busyness doesn't lead us to accomplish anything of importance. Productivity is not about cramming more into our days but about doing the right thing in each moment.”
― Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus*

“I’d been a straight-A student in elementary school—whatever that means to anyone—but as soon as I hit puberty . . . everything went downhill.”
― Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life

“Some people just aren’t meant for the grind. I was in one of those huge public middle schools, taking seven different classes a day. I couldn’t keep up. I couldn’t even remember my locker combination! So I started shutting down—figuratively and literally, during classes. I’d been fully alert at ten years old; then I turned eleven and suddenly I couldn’t keep my eyes open. I’d fall asleep right there at my desk. And not because I wasn’t totally well rested; I totally was! It was so weird. And in the next class, I’d nod off again, at a different desk.”
― Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life

“Half an hour later, I was downstairs at my own desk when I felt my first ever stimulant kick. My heart beat a little faster. Then my brain was, like . . . aroused. Turned on. Stimulated—like Tyga in that gross song he wrote about having sex with Kylie Jenner when she turned eighteen.”
― Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life

“Concerta was wack—Ritalin-ish; amateur hour.”
― Cat Marnell, How to Murder Your Life

“Embrace the unique strengths that ADHD brings into your life, and let them be the foundation upon which you build a balanced and fulfilling future.”
― Rowan Reeds, From Scattered to Centered. A Practical Guide for Women with ADHD: Proven Strategies to Master Your Life, Relationships, and Career

“If the rest of the world says you're obnoxious or stupid or just not braining right, loving yourself is an act of rebellion, which is beautiful but exhausting, especially if you're a little kid.”
― Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

“I had a conversation with myself and three other people this morning and I did the talking for all of us. The conscious committee in my head meets once again.”
― Niedria Dionne Kenny

“The problem is that everyone expects you to be motivated by the same things that motivate others.”
― Jesse J. Anderson, Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD

“Captivate: how can I make it interesting? Create: how can I make it creative or novel? Compete: how can I make
it competitive or challenging? Complete: how can I make its completion feel urgent?”
― Jesse J. Anderson, Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD

“As soon as I gave up caring, everything got easier.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are

“Adrien sometimes talk and acts as if he has a hundred tabs open in his brain. Like he's giving a speech and watching a film and reading a book all at the same time. But then, when it's something really important, he focuses so hard and so fully. Gives it the most undivided attention I've ever seen.”
― Elle McNicoll, Show Us Who You Are