I am sure I have ADHD. I have always had an issue to be still, had a hard time to concentrate and stayed focus from age 7 ‐ when I started school. I started to climb on high things in an age of 3,5 years, like loos book shelfs, house roof, the tallest tree etc.
School wasn’t hard itself but to sit still 40-60 minutes. OMG that was hard. To run around or bicycling that was both fun and good for me!
Why am I writing about this now? Well reasonly I have realised how often I start on something at home and than start on a second or third or fourth thing all in an hour or two 🤪. I have always known I had it. Never been examed by a doctor and actually got the diagnosis. But I also learned to live with it.
An other thing is how good structure and good routines work for me at work. Or how I can relate to a pulpils with the same type of hyperactive brain and never being in the moment and recieve a message. Because you stop to listen because you already have to much things you are thinking of 🤪.
To be creative helps me to focus it helps my brain to relax and not be super hyper. I would say that the way I use “my medication” helps my brain to stay focus when I need it. It helps me to concentrate and relax. I found my method to cope with ADHD when I was around 17 years old. So now approxy 30 years later I still use the same method. I do get a bit tired on myself especially if I am Hungary then I can start doing to many things 🤪🤪 because I need food…
I have had some challenges this week (April 19th) as a substitute teacher in art&craft! With pulpils who isn’t motivated to learn new things or repeat something they’ve learned two years ago… So for my brain that’s challenging! How do I get them motivated when my brain needs to be creative to learn?
mia-simone. svenberg 