| Can you imagine someone saying I am so excited | | | | the better. |
| about my family giving me the gift of ADHD? Just | | | | Both points of view have their merits, and most likely |
| can't wait for next year's birthday celebration maybe I | | | | the reality about the gift of ADHD lies somewhere |
| will get some more of that good stuff. It is such an | | | | between these two polar extremes. But while the |
| exciting prospect to have my attention span cut down | | | | naysayers will want you to believe that have attention |
| to next to nothing and not be able to control my | | | | deficit disorder symptoms is a certain formula for |
| hyperactive impulsive behavior. Oh Yea, how great | | | | failure let's take a minute or two to look at one area |
| would that be to be able to pursue a career as an | | | | where they just might have an edge; creativity. |
| absentminded daredevil who loses focus just at the | | | | Many great writers and inventors have had the gift of |
| wrong time. Can you say smashup. | | | | ADHD. We will never know if they would have been |
| But while it is easy to see the negatives in the gift of | | | | as successful, or possibly more successful, if their |
| ADHD many are choosing to look at the condition in a | | | | symptoms had been managed, but what we do know |
| different, more positive way. The positive approach | | | | is that they were able to turn the negatives of ADHD |
| deals with emphasizing the good and writing the bad | | | | into the gift of ADHD. How did they do it? |
| off to simply being different. They also will tend to | | | | *Thinking out of the box: We often hear this term |
| minimize the impact of the struggles a person with | | | | overused but for those with the gift of ADHD it comes |
| attention deficit disorder by compartmentalizing them in | | | | natural. Keep in mind their condition is biological and their |
| the context of societal norms, not laying blame on the | | | | minds simply don't run down the same train tracks as |
| individual but rather on the extenuating circumstances. | | | | the masses. |
| On the other hand other specialists in the field of | | | | *A whirlwind of mental activity: The vast majority of |
| attention deficit hyperactivity disorder scoff at the idea | | | | ADHD people have busy minds with thoughts coming |
| that packaging a serious biologically based mental | | | | and going at breakneck speed. |
| disorder could be looked upon as the gift of ADHD in | | | | Putting 2 and 2 together: When you have numerous |
| the first place. This group tends to focus solely on the | | | | thoughts racing through your head along with many |
| negative aspects of inattention/distractibility, impulsive | | | | different ideas eventually you may arrive at a winning |
| behavior, and hyperactivity/restless finding little positive | | | | combination. Think of the gift of ADHD as a pad lock |
| in any of these symptoms. To put it simply, if the | | | | whose combination is unknown, until one day you |
| person cannot fit into the present conventional norms | | | | arrive upon the right serious of numbers to open the |
| they must receive treatment to do so, and the sooner | | | | lock, along with the prospects for unfettered success. |