Saturday, November 26, 2011

If I had never had ADHD

Attention Deficit Disorder affected my life in general, but I am thinking if I never had ADHD, what will life be like.  Now I am treated and I am thinking about what things will be like if I never had ADHD.

I think my social life will be a little bit different.  For most of high school, I think most of my friends would be a continuation of the people that I knew very well in elementary school.  I think I am going to develop way more intimate friendships than the casual bonding around and playing I did in elementary school on the playground, and I am going to spend a lot more time hanging with them outside of school.  They would not of drifted away as it did in high school when I was not attentive enough to have "mature" friendships outside of play.  I did have friends in high school, but they were very casual and not very intimate, and most of these relationships ending when I left school during the day, making the weekends and the summer very boring.  I see pictures of friends online hanging together and doing things together, but they never wanted to invite me to do any of these things with them because of unpredictability, inattention, and lack of intimacy.

The same thing could happened with a girlfriend.  I don't think I had the attention span to create intimate relationships to have a girlfriend outside of school.  When social life ends when I am outside of school, with the exception of the internet, it is very hard.  I think back then I had friends with lots of girls and if I stuck to making intimate connections with these girls, a relationship would blossom.

I would of made new friends, but I don't think I will be jumping from crowd to crowd.  Most of my friends will be made from church and they would of been mutual friends of the ones I known since elementary school.  I don't think I would of made too many band and choir friends, unless they were in church with me or a mutual friend to the ones I known since elementary school.  Track will be the time that I would of made the most new original friends.

But now this is corrected and I think this "pattern" I am thinking about is going to happen in the future, even in the latter end of college.  I think I am still going to have hope.  The friends I am going to have are going to be temporary, but very deep and memorable.  A lot of them are probably going to be either from the apartment - someone is going to suck me into a gang or from a job if I get a part time job.  They are going to be more focused friendships where you do something with and become more intimate with; like in a gang or pack instead of the casual friendships that I had in school. I have hope coming :)

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