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if you can "cure" your add by sheer force of will/playing sports, it's prob not add - just laziness or a bad diet or something.
i literally cannot remember things that i've just said or done unless i'm taking my medication, and adderall really helped turn me around. it was very frusterating, because i've always been smart/testing in the highest percentiles and a hard worker, but things that i studied would NOT stay in my brain, and i would get overwhelmed so easily, even by things/subjects i enjoyed. i also couldn't sleep because i couldn't stop thinking.
my mother never believed that add was real, so i struggled all through high school but managed to get into good colleges by the grace of my high test scores because i do have good critical thinking/logic skills and did very well on my SATs. after a year or so in college i realized that i needed to do SOMETHING so i wasn't just wasting my money by taking classes but not retaining anything, and got put on adderall after getting some tests and an official diagnosis. it's helped so much - my memory is back, i can sleep, i'm much more calm and focused.
like, i know it's en vogue to self-diagnose and overmedicate kids, but come on now. i think it's always really obvious when looking at the difference between someone who just wants an excuse for why they're lazy/fucking up, and people who actually try really hard but have a bonafide learning disorder.
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