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You
might think that I’m crazy to tell you to embrace disorganization.
Well, I could tell you to fight it. I could tell you to overcome
it. I could tell you to ignore it, to hate it, to hide it. But none
of those things will work because you still would be keeping a big
part of you split off from the rest of yourself. That takes a tremendous
toll in terms of time and energy spent hiding, and in emotional
distress. It's both unhealthy and counterproductive to hate and
hide a big part of yourself.
The truth is, you are all of your strengths and all of your difficulties.
You have some great abilities and you have some great difficulties,
and all of that is you. It is not that some parts are of you are
acceptable and some parts are not. Embracing all of what you are
is one of the important keys to heal self-esteem wounds, to improve
your mood by improving your self-talk, and to give you a strong
sense of an inner core that doesn’t reel from shame when ADD symptoms
still inevitably occur. Embracing helps you move through the "grief
cycle" to a deep sense of acceptance and beyond, to actual enjoyment
of your ADD and your creativity. I’m not talking about a "Pollyanna"
sort of acceptance -- because without real acceptance and understanding
of your true level of difficulties, you won’t begin to approach
getting enough structure or help to support your considerable strengths.
It’s only when you are able to embrace both your strengths and your
difficulties that you will be able to move ahead with your life.
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