I have been writing very sparsely on my actual blog, but I am still writing in a way. I answer questions on Quora, and before you ask me what makes me so special, just don’t. I am educated enough and I take the time to research topics and learn about what I am saying.

I don’t want to say something that is not correct, and there isn’t going to be a lot of things that are 100% correct all the time, but I fucking try. I just wanted to share some of what I have been writing about and a few questions that I hammered out this Saturday morning as I woke up, took drugs, had a lemon danish (it’s the holiday, I’m allowed to be a fat ass) and sat down at my desk to plan out my day.

So I haven’t got around to planning my day, but I haven’t wrote in a while here, so I will share what I wrote on Quora, here!

Fellow people with ADHD would you want to not have it or get rid of it? Do you think you would still be you? Do you think it’s apart of what makes you, you?

I don’t really have ADHD per se, I have what is called secondary ADHD from a traumatic brain injury. It has some of the symptoms of ADHD, and I am medicated.

I think I may have had ADD/ADHD as a child/teen, however because my parents aren’t as educated in mental health, and my extended family isn’t either, it was kind of brushed under the rug like “That’s just Andy”. Although I was never really diagnosed as having ADD/ADHD or anything I will never know.

If we are talking about my creative side, the arts side of me, it is who I am. If I knew how to harness it I could have been so much more, but there are parts of me that acted out and that wasn’t who I am, it was a temporary state I was in that caused me to behave as such. So that’s what I think, and life goes on and I just am always learning. Just today someone had asked me if they have ADHD, and they were motivated and determined to improve their memory, can they.

Sometimes, it just breaks my heart to see when someone is questioning their ability because they feel that having a diagnosis means that they are now under a ceiling where they can’t achieve or change anything about themselves.

Is my brother with paranoid schizophrenia a potential danger to us due to his tendency to talk to himself, harbor suspicions, and engage in unhealthy behaviors like smoking, despite our concerns?

Schizophrenia is well associated with substance abuse, he isn’t a danger and it’s better if you try to understand his world without labelling him, and saying things like “because he talks to himself, and have suspicions, and engages in unhealthy behavior’s, he must have a mental disorder”.

I can bet that you are living an unhealthy lifestyle as well, and you have suspicions about certain things, occasionally you talk to yourself ( and it may not be verbalized, but you are still talking to yourself), and if you think that smoking is indicative of a disorder, then 40% of the world has schizophrenia.

Maybe stick out of the mental health game for a while. I think you are more danger to your family than anyone else right now.

Is it possible for someone with ADHD to improve their memory through effort and determination?

Yes!