Hi! I am a 26 year old female and have just been diagnosed with
ADHD, although I sort of suspected I had it ever since I heard about
it years ago! I was diagnosed at University of Chicago. Or
University of Illinois at Chicago. I can never remember the
difference.

Anyway the doctor who diagnosed me suggested I go to counseling and
join a support group. I am probably going to go to the CHADD group
in Buffalo Grove cause it is closer to where I live. Anyway just
trying to find out more about adults with ADHD.

I am a little aggravated because when I think about it, my having
ADHD explains just about everything in my life. I have been reading
the book, "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?" and the title
explains exactly what I grew up thinking I was! Lazy, stupid and/or
crazy. Part of me is just happy to know the explanation, but part of
me is sort of mad because I went all those years hating myself and
thinking my parents, teachers, etc hated me... because they were
always YELLING at me or rolling their eyes at me... and it never
occured to anyone that I might have an actual problem besides just
being a brat!

So anyway. These are the thoughts I am thinking at 12:56 in the
morning, eating jelly beans and being bored because everyone in my
house is asleep and I am wide awake!!!!!

- Angel