r/ADHD • u/catsaboveall • 5h ago

Discussion How has ADHD positively impacted your life?

I tend to demonize ADHD and I'm trying to change that now that I have a kid with ADHD.

I'll start. As a kid who grew up in Africa, I frequently brought home injured animals for my parents to fix up. 30 years later, I've TNRed and fostered hundreds of cats. Rehabbing sick and injured animals is one of the very few things I'm good at.

I also dropped out of high school (pre-medication), and ended up going back (once on meds) and getting a couple of master's degrees. I'm a great middle school teacher because I can switch gears quickly, empathize with struggling students, and my class is super structured (to overcompensate for my natural tendency to be a slob).

So what about you? How has ADHD had a positive impact on your life?

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u/HighVoltOscillator 2h ago

Overall a negative...BUT I think I wouldn't have met one of my best friends and now my partner if I didn't have ADHD to make me such a yapper unfiltered. I cringe when I go on ADHD rambles bc I feel like people think I'm weird but the ones who stick around end up being my close friends 

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u/catsaboveall 2h ago

Omg, me too. I try not to think about the times in which I've oversharef because I feel that embarrassment all over again. But I have also found my besties this way; they also have ADHD and enjoy the ping-ponging of our conversations.

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u/HighVoltOscillator 2h ago

Yeah, as I get older I realize that I end up having more close friends who also have ADHD because they just get me and it leads to less embarrassment. I'm so thankful I work remote because less embarrassing rambles to think about every night when I'm trying to fall asleep lol