'It sounds like the potential for disaster: Two people with ADHD who became parents of three children, two of whom have — wait for it — ADHD. But we’ve come up with some coping strategies that make things flow more smoothly.'
When we started dating, we had no idea. In retrospect, the signs were there for both of us: messy cars, messy houses, an inability to stay organized; the propensity to draw orour way through graduate seminars; always doing work at the last minute; always losing things — papers, staplers, child blankies. We were both great with the idea, bad with the follow-through. We should have seen the symptoms in each other, but we didn’t even see them in ourselves.
He hears the new ways our ADHD sons have developed to maim each other; I find out that his sophomores-he teaches public high school-have learned to curse in Elizabethan English. Amid the maelstrom of our days, Bear and I get at least 10 minutes to sit, cuddle, connect, and calm down. With our ADHD brains running, running, running, the break keeps us focused. Especially because you need to…This sounds easy. And it isn’t for neurotypical couples.
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