Writing a book about my life and ADHD!

[ChicagoRedwing2b]

Well just wanted to drop in and let everyone know I have decided to undertake a difficult goal.

I want to write a book about my life in general and ADHD, and all sorts of things.

Not sure how long it will take, but I want to write the book and ACTUALLY finish it, LOL.

I have always been creative with my imagination, and this idea of my book is no different. It will be a story about my life, with truth and real life events throughout the book, but it will also be a fictional story with imaginative ideas, crazy themes, worlds, and characters, and smaller inner stories along the way, that although are not real and created by me, will link to my real life and real life experiences, as felt, seen, heard, experienced, and suffered through my eyes, as though the reader is actually stepping into my body for a breif time.

It will not be structured, or organized as skilled writers will do, but rather a mix of everything, jumping from topic to topic as I see fit, and circling back and forth as my ADHD mind permits. I will spare no one's patience with this book. I was told that this would cause readers to get confused, disorganized, disoriented, upset, and with a feeling of parts, ideas, and stories still without closure, and uncompleted ideas and thoughts, all leading to an utterly frustrated and pissed off reader who would just slam the book down and tell everyone how bad it sucked and not to read it it was to difficult to follow.

Well last time I checked that sounds exactly like my normal everyday daily life, and exactly what it feels like to be ME!

It is exactly what I want the reader to experience, for the first time a real true understanding of what we all go through in life as ADD, ADHD, parents, friends, family, lovers, enemies, and everone ever to come into contact with ADD and ADHD in any way, what we all go through each and every day of our lives.

Title wise I have had a few ideas, from:

Welcome to my world!
What was I writing about again?
Who the hell am I?
Hi, how are you, and goodbye!
Down with a sickness.

and so far the best title I have come up with to this point has also caused a lot of trouble, and thats why I like it so much. The title is as follow:

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Do you like it? LOL, A book without a title, would cause a lot of publishing and selling problems on its own, but when was the last time that ADD and ADHD didn't cause problems? Exactly!

So I will write what ever and when ever I feel like it, and about everything and nothing, LOL.

I will take things I read and use them as long as those people allow me to do so, and I will ask for things from my friends and family and forum friends.

Feel free to post things here if you have stories to tell, experiences to share, thoughts, opinions, and critisisms, what ever you wish.

I love reading and getting ideas, so feel free to share with me. Anything I use will be noted and requested before I do so, and you will be credited.

I will post parts for your thoughts and ideas to read as I write, and thanks gang!

[Sorka]

Cool! I am happy that you are doing this. I know how your writing has impressed us!

How about this I was at the hospital with my son yesteday and I was supposed to be sitting there listening to a video about the anesthesia and I kept drifting off.. distracted by the things around me. The etch a sketch portraits on the wall, whether the baby was being good for the sitter, and on and on.. I don't think I hear more than 30 seconds straight of the video.. horrible huh?
Then I was sitting there wondering at that.. thinking how much do I do this?

[ChicagoRedwing2b]

Here is a good one for everyone to connect with, lol.

I was using my fiancee's computer trying to send an e-mail to my sister. I built all the computers in the house, including hers, and could have used mine, but I was already upstairs and didn't want to walk all the way downstairs and turn on my PC to just send a quick e-mail.

Well you know how ADD works, and my curiosity struck and I started reading a few e-mails she has in her inbox, no biggy we read each others e-mails all the time.

Well one e-mail caught my eye so i started reading it. I wish I had not read that e-mail, LOL.

It was from her aunt, and Sarah had been e-mailing back and forth with her for a while recently. Sarah's uncle just died due to cancer and the whole family was together for the wake and funernal recently.

It started off pretty normal, but quickly turned into a nasty e-mail about who of all people?

ME!

Her aunt loved that Sarah wanted to publish within 5 years, asked about what, and started talking about how she was happy that Sarah had finally purchased a condo, but wished she had done it without me.

She started to rant about how I was a bad boy (not a man but a boy) and how I was using Sarah. She talked about how Geoff, a mutual friend of ours, was a real man, and that he would not wait forever for Sarah to leave me. She talked about how Geoff was a real man, and I was a video game boy and showed no real interest in Sarah like Geoff did.

She talked about how I should be left behind, and how Sarah should get the condo without me, and that she would help with money to do it if Sarah asked her to help.

Now here is where I was getting upset, but I noticed Sarah had at some point defended me to her aunt and tried her best to explain what ADHD is and how it has effected me, and how I have changed my life totally in 1 year after dicovering I had it, but once again her aunt told her it was a joke. She told Sarah that if I had ADHD all my life why only now was I seeking to cahnge and get help? It was nothing more then a desperate effort from a little boy who can't grow up and be a man, and it was time to leave me behind for a real man.

This went on for a little longer, with the typical slams like, Rob is lazy, worthless, a user, stupid, slow, childish, and just bad.

Now you can imagine I was pissed off right? Hell yes!

But later that night I talked to Sarah about it, and she was upset I read it, but quickly explained that her aunt was crazy, which she is really, and that she defended me to her aunt, but she would not hear any off it about ADHD because her aunt thinks ADHD is fake.

How many times have we all tried to explain what ADD and ADHD is like to have and live with and have failed to get the point accross to those who do not have it?

Frustrating right?

My book hopefully will open this frustrating door up, and allow those without understanding of the disorder to start to understand and feel and see ADD and ADHD for what it is, and how it effects each and everyone of us all.

[rosyred45]

Hey Rob, glad to see somebody here is organized enough to TRY and find pen and paper. ;D

Wait, what was I saying ;D

Any how, don't worry about the aunt, my parents have never liked my husband. He's the long hair hippy freak that wasn't exactly in my parents frame work when I was born.
HMMMM, shame he's just like my DAD!!!!!!!! Guess that's why I can put up with him

What kind of stories do you want? I work with kids, and there are a few that have been dx'ed, a few that need to be, and a few that I would just like to adopt long enough to put a boot in thier butt.

oohhh, OK, Here's one, we had a little boy start coming to SACC (School Age Child Care) just in the mornings. He's not been dx'ed with any specifics, just hyper, but there is something more. Any how. My son and he were playing with hot wheels (match box, whatever). After about the third time of me telling my son to stop ramming the cars, this "cutie" told he I wasn't allowed to talk to his friend like that.

Took me back a little, (I had to turn and laugh w/out him seeing me) so I went over there and told him there were 3 reasons I was allowed to Talk to him.
(he has more of a consept if you break things into 3's I've noticed)
1. I am the SACC teacher
2. I am his Mommy
3. I said so.
It worked, for some odd reason. Usually he needed to be prompted to say anything else, but he said OK, and went about his business. When I talked to my son again, the little boy looked at me like he wanted to say something, but smiled and went back to playing.
By the way, the little boy is 4.

OK, I'll get off the soap box. Good luck Rob, It's Friday, the kids have been cooped up all week, I'm sure I'll have something else to tell you later
Kaiti

[finnmom]

Go Chicagoredwing´s Go ;D ;D ;D
I know you´ll make one h¤¤¤ of a book about adhd, you´ve shown your ability´s in writing already. just go on with it, if that´s what you want to do.
Marja

[1mom]

first person POV: besides "Only a Mother Could Love Him" (by Ben Polis), don't know of another book using this POV.
great idea to let the actual format repeat the message of the book. truly ingenious!
the ** title would work against you in sales. you might want to rethink that one. titles provide 50% of your sales.
a title suggestion:
What ever When ever: Everything and Nothing ADHD

go, crwinger, go!
1mom

[anneke]

I am walking around to write a book about ADHD for shildren.

I have some ideas in my head but at the moment they are just walking around in my head.

there are no jobs in belgium so maby I am realy going to do it

Anneke