This really irks me how it is in the world. I do not tell many people. But you know, if they think it is laziness or whatever. That is there problem in my eyes. They refuse to be educated then or just have not read any material on it. Whatever the case may be. I have told people here and there. I do no think it should be a deep dark secret. If they can't handle it or don't like it. Tough. I have told a few of my classmates. but it was sort of random we stumbled onto it. They just said oh, moved on and things were good it has never been mentioned again. As far as employers go, I won't tell them unless I have to. Although for drug screening, I will not stop taking my meds just for that. I will have note at the ready and will tell the tech administering the pee test. From there the only people who have to know will know. As far as fellow employee's go finding out. Not my issue, nor concern, nor do I care. If they find out, cool for them. I am better equipped now to handle there chiding or chatter. What we endured as children can be almost a double edged sword. Sure it sucked then and probably has pushed nearly all of us to the edge into depression or substance abuse, low self esteem all of it. But for me getting treatment and finding out has really been an eye opener and has allowed me to make slow and small changes for the better. For as I child I was not equipped to handle the situations I was put in then. But now when I look back on it getting picked on for being different(I didn't know I was ADD then,signs were there though) I have realized was not my fault for being different, and definitely not my fault they could not accept me because I was not normal. So now I am trying to rise above and not be dragged down by my childhood past. The way the ADD brain works allows you t look in at one thing in many different angles, so why not look at the your childhood, or incidences from which you have been ridiculed and turn it around into a new light, find the good in that negative and realize that the people who are belittling you are probably feeling threatened by you in some way because you have an ability they do not possess. Take those negative moment's and flip it on its head and turn it around right in there faces, realize to you do not need those people in your life. They are nothing but a drop of sand in the bucket life, you will meet many grains of sand along the way and there will be those that will catch the sun just right and grab your attention as the sun reflects off them so brightly, you cannot help but look.

But above all, use the trait so many of us are well known for and most likely got us to where we are intact, RESILIENCY. That is our 2nd best trait only to the way we are able to think and imagine things in many new possibilities. Show the nay Sayer's they cannot bring you down, they will feel beat down and lost as to why you did not give in, to me that would be the best feeling, is if they could not break you. All of us are different but we all think and share root emotions we all can understand that no one else does, and there are those out there who are not stricken with the condition but who understand and accept it.