“Since my diagnosis, I’ve given myself permission to focus on what I’m good at, and to ask for help with those things I’m not so good at. I have more compassion for myself, and that leads to feeling more compassion for others.”
also means I have an urge to make everyone happy. I’ve learned that I will never please everyone — and if I do, it means that I’m likely not pleasing myself. This experience has allowed me to practice detachment — an element in yoga called aparigraha — whereby I detach my ego from others’ assumptions about me and the name tags they might use to describe me.
Since my diagnosis, I’ve given myself permission to focus on what I’m good at, and to ask for help with those things I’m not so good at. I have more? Speak to other people with ADHD, join groups, listen to podcasts, read books, and anything else that will educate you on the ADHD experience. I’ve discovered that ADHD isn’t a problem to “overcome.” It means I have a wonderfully quirky brain that just works differently.
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