28/10/2025
ADHD Awareness month!
Now, I don’t know what you think about labels, agree or disagree, what’s important is acknowledging everyone has the right to express their own perspective 🧡
My story-At the age of only 5 my teacher would humiliate me in front of the whole class calling me stupid for getting zero every time we did mental arithmetic’s!
✨My dad slapped me when I was 7, calling me stupid for not understanding long division.
✨I was called Laura Biff (a play on Smith) in high school, for being in remedial classes.
✨I couldn’t sit still or concentrate in high school, and chose to head down the glen instead smoking joints when I was 14.
✨My 20s through to my late 30s were a mix of working abroad adventures, jumping from one seasonal contract to the next, engaging in risky behaviour, (will leave those bits to your imagination), and chasing the thrill of drugs and toxic relationships.
✨Thank god I found myself in Cyprus, got therapy and started working on what I recognised as an unhealthy dose of negative limiting beliefs, created through childhood trauma.
✨When I finally got my diagnosis, I went on an emotional rollercoaster feeling angry, let down by society, disgusted with the educational system and sad knowing all this s**t could have been prevented if someone had understood!!!
✨To say everybody is a little bit on the spectrum is so frustrating for those of us who actually are!
I don’t like the fact I’m classed as having a disability, and I don’t agree with how we are being portrayed! But, finally thank god someone took notice, listened, understood and since, my label has brought so much comfort and peace.
✨Now I fully accept ALL parts of me, love my neurospicy community, and genuinely appreciate my brain works differently! Having ADHD means learning to be authentic, taking advantage of this super power and not squashing yourself into a square box, because you were told that’s the only way!
✨To all my ADHDers . . take the mask off, accept yourself! You were born to shine!
