As much as my ADHD has plagued me in the past, it has also been the genesis of great character that I've developed. I never gave up, I only failed. Nobody has ever worked as hard as I have at failing. There is nobody as close to me as wife is and I can honestly look deep into her eyes and say "I did my best and I tried my hardest." She endured all the pain too when I trekked upon failing attempts to become successful. Sometimes the individual who loves somebody the most is also a source of significant and great enlightenment. If my wife had not made me aware that my perceived minor imposition was in fact a severely impairing disability, I would have continued on conducting myself the same way. I was incapable of admitting both to her and myself that I was and am disabled.
However not to sound too pessimistic, because I've also overcome a lot of adversity and tribulations that some of my non-ADHD counterparts may have been incapable accomplishing. I believe I can safely assume that my life's experiences are not entirely unique. I am convinced that those of us who have been plagued with severe ADHD our entire lives have evolved the kind of character that can endure hardship. We have adapted to the sour taste of defeat and have become accustomed to it. The fear of failing fuels our ambition to succeed and it does not terrify us.
Education is liberation. Ignorance spawns fear. The two state of minds are both sides of the same coin. Not achieving aspirations yields a breadth of knowledge that the worst that could happen had already transpired. Empowered with the knowledge that failure had bestowed eliminates any reservations against further attempts. After all failing to obtain goals is another opportunity to succeed. There are only one of two choices at our disposal then. Either make another attempt, or adopt a defeatist mentality and never realize could happened. Personally I'd rather keep on trying until the opportunity is no longer available to me or until all possible avenues had been exploited. Anything less is unconscionable.
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