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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“If you need to see a pain center that is near you, we can direct you to the nearest one. To buy pain medication online in the USA, Canada, or any state in the US, there is no need to have a prescription in order to purchase this medication.”
― Pain Management Near Me

“You feel a lot. Why is that a bad thing?"
"I don't know," I say. "I just know that it is. I just know I'm too much.”
― Sarah Grunder Ruiz, Last Call at the Local

“Whether you hyperfocus on this book, and listen to it all in the next few hours, or whether it joins a list of unread books and you finally to get round to listening to it in 2034, when you're moving house: we hope that you find value in these pages.”
― Rox Emery & Rich Pink

“What letters in the alphabet face the letters that follow it in a word vs its back against the letters that follow it. Like, “Because” The “B” faces the letters that follow it. But in the word, “dumb” the lowercase “d” has its back against the letters. #ThisIsWhatKeepMeUpAtNight”
― Niedria Kenny

“Dopamine is the brain's blood sugar. It should be stable, not fluctuating for your health.”
― Serhat Beyaz KOROGLU

“While those of us with ADHD may struggle to focus on school, work, and other structured activities, that doesn’t mean we’re not smart. Far from it. In fact, those of us with ADHD are usually intensely curious, persistent, and lifelong learners… When we find a learning strategy that works for us, we can be excellent students, especially if we’re interested in a certain subject, since we’ll usually we want to know everything about it. If we’re not interested in the subject but have to learn it to satisfy a school or work environment, we can struggle. When ADHD students pursue university or graduate degrees where they can tailor their classes to their interests, they do much better.
I often hear stories from women with ADHD who struggled through grade school but went on to receive a PhD and graduated with highest honors.”
― Tracy Otsuka, ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain

“Most days, I feel like I’m doing my best attempt at impersonating a normal human being.
Results vary.”
― Todd Lyons, You Tried: A Deadbeat’s Guide to Self-Actualization

“The ADHD brain is built for responsiveness, for novelty, for meaningful stimulation. It is attuned to cues of interest and urgency, rather than arbitrary deadlines or routines.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Neurodivergent People: A NeuroFlex ACT Guide for Living Fully with ADHD, Autism, OCD, and a Neurodivergent Life

“A common argument is that the real danger of people self-diagnosing with ADHD is that it could lead to people self-medicating for ADHD too.
But, I'm sorry... What?!
Do you believe there are actually people out there convincing themselves they have ADHD, purposefully deciding not to go to a doctor about it, and instead planning to buy a regular supply of Dexies from their sketchy cousin for literally 100x the prescription price?”
― Matilda Boseley, The Year I Met My Brain: A travel companion for adults who have just found out they have ADHD

“...the songs changed through-out the day, switching directions, coming now from the garden and now from the veranda, ragtime shifting to jazz, then to a Beethoven symphony, the boss, intense and restless, wanting to hear every kind of music all at once and never getting his fill.”
― Jason Fagone, The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine who Outwitted America's Enemies