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When
undiagnosed ADD can be devastating and debilitating, silently robbing
individuals of their dreams, their hopes, their self-esteem. Those
affected spend their lives trying to solve a riddle -- the mystery
of their lives must lay somewhere out there, just around the next
turn in the road. They remember that they have glimpsed it, that
special something once felt or envisioned, before things got so
overwhelming and they became trapped and lost -- wandering aimlessly
in a forest looking for clues as if from an old treasure map. They
know the treasure is there somewhere, but perhaps deeply buried
or locked behind a fortress. They have incredible perseverance and
determination to keep going, often pulling an enormous weight. The
remembrance of that special feeling, the knowledge, deep inside,
that they have something important of value to do, to create, to
contribute, keeps them searching. They continue on, though the memory,
that belief, grows more faint each year as despair begins to replace
hope. Hope that they will ever find the treasure, that they will
even find their way out of the forest and back to the road.
Still, they
trudge on, clutching that old, crumpled, faded map, holding on to
the hope they will find that buried treasure chest and reclaim their
abandoned hopes and lost dreams.
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