Submitted by ReadilyDiverge30 t3_117ocvl in GetMotivated
mvndaai t1_j9fjza0 wrote
Reply to comment by Mendel247 in [Image] The finish line don't have an expiration date by ReadilyDiverge30
Not having ADHD medication made me waste so much time in college. I spent like 8 years wandering through and eventually failed out. I took 3 years, got a real job, got married, then went to a different college. Once I had my life together even though I was working full time taking mostly night classes I graduated with honors. I am a programmer so I probably didn't even need the degree but I never have to think of going to school again and I am happy
Mendel247 t1_j9fm3yg wrote
I have ADHD, too. I was diagnosed last year after years and years of struggling. I've actually been teaching English as a foreign language for the best part of a decade (without a degree, go figure!) and I've found I'm really good at it, but what I'm better at is working with gifted or struggling students and helping them/their parents identify what's causing their issues (and gifted students are very likely to have issues, too!) and get help. Following my own abysmal experience with getting ADHD treatment, and the appalling way so many of y students have been treated, I've decided I want to become a neuropsychologist. I finally got adequate treatment at the end of last summer and since then I've finished a series of coursera courses - more to see if I can actually commit to studying and to get back into studying than for the courses themselves, and I've been really consistent and I've done well on the courses. I wish I'd been treated sooner, but I wasn't, so I just have to make the best of now...
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