I know I have ADHD and I need help.

Tiberius
Sun, 20 May 2007 21:15:30 +0000

I’ve been reading about ADHD for quite awhile since like last year and I have come to realize that I have ADHD.

However, my father and mother deny that such a thing exists and both, along with my older brother, have pretty much bullied me into thinking that I do not have it.

My brother was malicious enough to tell me that the reason I do not have it is because I have been able to through role playing games on consoles but that is ridiculous because that’s like saying that I do not have ADHD because I can sit down through a meal. And he told me he knew people who had ADHD at boarding school and that I was not like them but did not even say just how I was not like them (lies).

When I was in kindergarten and when I was recognized as bright then, my mother knew that I definitely had ADHD. I was all over the place, causing trouble, and my mind was sometimes not where it was supposed to be. My kindergarten teach too acknowledged that I had ADHD but she told my mother that the drugs to help those with ADHD were bad and as a result I never got treatment.

And just right now before I began this paragraph, I got in a fight with my parents and they called me lazy telling me that I was full of it. I told them that I will see if I can take an exam at my community college at the health building and they continued on with illogical tactics and it turned into a series of ad hominem attacks. I cried.

It pains me to know that a psychiatrist diagnosed me at gifted at my elementary school but I cannot function my brain to it’s full extent.

So if there is no service available at my school, where can I get tested? Is any physician fine? Can any physician check me up?