ADD

The best way to think of ADD is not as a mental disorder but as a collection of traits and tendencies that define a way of being in the world.

Having ADD is like listening to a ball game on the radio station that's coming in with alot of static. The harder you strain to hear what's going on, the more frustrated you get. Once in a while a static free interval blesses the airwaves, and you can hear the ball game clear as a bell. A cat may meow in the background, but you know it is just a cat, not more static, and the clear signal from the radio allows you to focus on the game, How good this feels! But then, like an unresolved feud, the static returns,a dn you become more frustrated. You get mad. You want to break the radio, or kick the cat, or scream at whatever human makes the terrible mistake of inquiring right then as to how you might be feeling.

-from "Delivered from Distraction" By Edward Hallowell M.D. and John Ratey, M.D.

This book is opening my eyes to myself for the first time ever.