Apparently it's AD/HD awareness month!
As someone who wasn't diagnosed with AD/HD until adulthood, I've always kinda wanted to make a post about what AD/HD is really about. There are a lot of myths out there, and the household understanding of AD/HD is actually very misleading... and very dismissive of our day to day struggles.
Actually, it's *because* of this vast amount of misinformation that I find myself unwilling to explain certain behaviors and short comings to people as "a symptom of my AD/HD". If you don't know what that's like, imagine having a badly sprained ankle--and when people ask you "Why can't you keep up, why are you walkin