Here’s the thing about ADHD, sometimes it doesn’t look like ADHD.

When I first started researching it, I found an image like the one below that really helped me understand what I was dealing with.

I thought ADHD was trouble focusing and hyperactivity… that’s it. But as the picture explains, that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

So many more boxes got checked off as I moved down the list and I realized that for me, ADHD is both a superpower and my biggest foe.

This isn’t to say that I’m blaming ADHD on anything, I take responsibility for all of my choices, distractions, emotions, and more, but it does give me a little help understanding my brain.

Also, if you’re the whole way down here, I want to apologize for the title, it’s more a description from my new book, ADHD ROCKS, than a sharing of the actual 99 reasons.

Let’s keep going.

I wrote this book to help kids/teens embrace their brains and the amazing things they can do with them.

Throughout their lives, they’ll constantly be told to calm down, keep quiet, stop fidgeting, pay attention, quit whining, stop crying, and a plethora of other things that will slowly teach them that to fit in, they have to shut down.

Please don’t shut down.

If I’ve learned anything over the past 42 years or so, it’s that to truly be comfortable in your skin, you have to allow the comments that hurt your heart, to not get stuck in your mind.

If you live in them, they’ll control you.

ADHD isn’t a reason to not read, or not create, or not write, or not this and not that, and the other thing, it just makes it harder sometimes, especially if you’re not interested in the thing you’re reading, creating, writing, etc.

That being said, sometimes even when you do love the thing, you can’t stick with it, and that’s okay.

I hope anyone reading this, reading my book, or just struggling, hears that phrase, and embraces it, “That’s okay.”

Do what you can, let your mind run, daydream, fidget, and with enough time, and work, you can get through it. Even though it’s hard. Some days it will be harder than others.

Your brain is different, and that’s okay.

If this helped you, it would mean the world to me if you shared it and/or a link to ADHD ROCKS.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jason