Intro to Me

 

So this is an informal introduction.  I don't really do formal and I am gritting my teeth against the desire to make this perfect and just get something in a blog post...so here goes.

My name is Dan and I'm in my forties and its taken me a long time to realize I needed to have an ADHD evaluation done.  I've gone my whole life thinking certain things were a problem for everyone and developed a lot of shortcuts to get past those things only to slowly realize over the last five years or so that I am not neuro-typical.

Final analysis from a qualified person: ADHD Inattentive Type.  For those of you who know ADHD if you met me you would likely guess it right away.  For those who don't know what ADHD really is you would probably point to my job or whatever and say, "You can't have ADHD, you are functioning just fine." or something like that.

I probably pass for Neurotypical.  I always thought I was until recently.  Slowly listening to my wife, a longtime teacher of high school ages, over the past few years more and more seemed close to home about kids with ADHD struggling and my life in school at those ages on top of that some of the struggles were still real I just had tricks and shortcuts to avoid falling in the same brain holes. 

So what now? Well I now know why I have difficulty with things. Doesn't mean they aren't difficult and it doesn't mean I cannot do stuff but I am now aware that I just don't suck at stuff, the difficulty rating for me is actually a bit higher.  This means I need to work harder.  

Yeah ok Dan but why this blog?   Oh that.  I have been wanting to blog for most of my adult life. I was never good at doing it and never good at sticking with it.  Assumed I was just lazy.  Turns out new habits are harder to form for me.  So I am starting again and hopefully I will stick-ish to it-ish. 

This blog will have my thoughts on.....all manner of things that run through Dan's brain.  Its likely you will find things you like, things that are weird and things that might just be a bit off key for you.  Skip what you don't like and don't feel bad about it.  If you have a question or something I am sure I will find a way to enable a reply or a contact point in here somewhere.