Secrets: Mmmm dinner... What are you making? We had beef stir fry... my husband is a good cook <3

We had leftovers although I didn't really eat anything. I haven't had much of an appetite because of my ADD meds. I'll eat eventually though.

Poet: I went through phases with those too where I'd either be not hungry or I just couldn't seem to eat enough. My sister had a lot of problems with hers because she's very active in sports and stuff, so when she went through the phases where she wasn't hungry she was losing so much weight it was very unhealthy. I think she's still looking for one that works and doesn't cause that to happen.

Yeah... I'm hardly active at all really. But even when I wasn't on the medication I think I was losing weight... just because I don't have much of an appetite to begin with, most of the time.

Oh I see. Well, I hope it doesn't make you unhealthy or anything like that... that's just not good and really not worth it no matter how much better it makes you feel, I think.

@poets; That's good.

@Morwyn; We're having fish and rice. :)

It's done, so I have to go. I'll be on later though. :D

Secrets: mmm... that sounds good. Enjoy that!

Yeah... meh. I really don't know. I mean it's either I lose my appetite or I fail college x_o. Doesn't feel like much of a choice. Anyway I do manage to get myself to eat, it's just not as easy...

Bye Secrets... and what's good? o_O.

Well, at least you can force yourself to eat some. I can kind of understand where you're coming from, though. I had to go off my meds when I was working on my huge gigantic portfolio thing, basically a senior project of sorts, and it was horrible. I'm just glad my professors were understanding and let me turn it in late... otherwise I wouldn't have gotten my teachers license and would have had to try at it again this fall... which would have sucked so bad!

Yeah, exactly Dx. It's lame, having to function with deadlines and whatnot when you have ADD and no help x_o.

No kidding... it's so freaking hard to get started on things... and then you get distracted onto something else once you do get started, and things just take forever or get forgotten until it's almost too late or is actually too late, and then you just panic... and it's not good at all >.<;; I plan on being much more understanding of my future students with ADD and ADHD than my teachers were of me... even though they didn't know, so I guess I can't really blame them. Once I did find out, they became more understanding I guess.

Yeah, all of what you said exactly XD. When you panic, of course, it just starts the cycle over again but you're more stressed this time so it's even harder... and so forth XD.

Yeah it can be frustrating when teachers don't understand. But you can be that much prouder since you deal with it yourself and you'll know what kids are going through, and you've succeeded yourself ^^.

Yeah. It was really interesting, when I was doing my student teaching one of the students had ADHD, and it was really interesting watching him and seeing what he was doing to cope with it and being like... that's what I do! When I was teaching the lessons I tried to be more lenient with him as far as when he could turn things in, because whenever he took things home to finish them, he was always forgetting to bring them back to school and I totally understood that.

But yeah... we're survivors, aren't we? Making it through high school and stuff without meds...

Haha, you're a survivor for that XD. I didn't make it through elementary school without meds!

Ah, ok... For some reason I had gotten the impression that you were just starting on them. Just starting new ones then?

The only person who picked up on the fact that I have ADD before I was diagnosed at 21 was my kindergarten teacher... and she just thought I was "immature" because I had trouble paying attention.

Yeah I just was starting back on them from not having them over the summer ^^. I can see how you would get that impression XD. I've changed around a lot, been on and off... varying success...

Wow, that's kind of sad. You know what, though... it tends to be missed a lot in girls because they don't have the traits people tend to associate with it, like behavior problems and hyperactivity like the boys often (though not always) exhibit...

My mom, though, was the one that basically diagnosed me... both of my parents are school social workers. It's part of their job to certify students with certain learning disabilities.

Well, that's good that your parents were able to catch it like that. My parents had trouble believing it at first when I first found out because I used to read for hours on end... I still do when I get sucked into a good book, and I never had the hyper part of it. My sister got lucky in that when I was diagnosed they looked into getting her checked for it too, so she's at least going to be on meds for her senior year of high school... if they find ones that work for her, of course. And if they don't, well, at least her teachers know what's up, you know?

Yeah that's always helpful. But anyway good for you for getting as far as you did without medication! *hugs*

Yeah I think that's the common perception and it's unfortunate because you don't want people writing their daughters off as just stupid or lazy...

Hello *welcomes back*

The current topic is ADD and medication and functioning and people having the wrong idea about girls with the ... disorder?

Aw... *hugs back* Yeah... well, at least a lot of things make much more sense now.

Anyways... um.. apparently there's this old show called Regency House, or something like that... My husband got the TV working again and he's been watching it in the other room on PBS. It sounds really weird, it's like a reality show where people have to live like they're in the time period of like Pride and Prejudice or something. Have you ever heard of it?

We can talk about other things for you, Haythia! <3

Nope I've never heard of that show :o.

Only show I somewhat regularly watch right now is Pushing Daisies... and if it weren't for the rest of my family liking it, I wouldn't bother to put it on or remember about it...