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My wife and I have been married 22 years and have two daughters, 15 and 10.  Over the last couple of years our youngest has been diagnosed with ADHD.  As she was growing up I'd often say "You are just like your mother."  Little did I know what the implications of that statement meant.  Over the years of our marriage my wife, and others, have joked that she was ADD/ADHD, that I needed to control her spending, etc..  Now that she has been diagnosed I realize how much of a toll it has taken on our marriage.  I've felt alone and like roommates for years but have chalked it up to just being ma

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I recently came across a blog written by a young woman with ADHD...and it is hilarious!! For those of us with the knowledge of how ADHDers can perceive things, well this is a way to get inside of their brain and just laugh.

This woman is extremely creative in her humor and if it were for ADHD, I don't think she could generate the same results....enjoy!!

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/

Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with legal proceedings pertaining to wrongful dismissal or constructive dismissal based on termination or discipline which have their origin in employer discrimination pertaining to adhd employee behaviour? Any feedback or info about legal precedents would be greatly appreciated. I am aware of Human Rights Actions against employers for this reason, but was wondering about case law or common law suits. If you know any lawyers with adhd, I would LOVE to hear about them!!!

Thanks!!

That I'm not trying hard enough. 

Hello everyone,

We go tomorrow to get the final verdict on my husband's ADHD test.  I am convinced he has it, but now we'll see what the "professional" has to say.  Regardless of the outcome, my husband has made it clear (actually gotten quite nasty about it) that he WILL NOT...NO WAY, NO HOW...EVER take medication for it. 

Hi, I am new here and was wondering if anyone knows of any forums, or websites that have similar threads as this one, but with any kind of positive content from/for the adhd person's side. For example, the majority of these forums and site content seems to me to be about how horrible it is to have to suffer through any kind of contact with an adhd person, and how abusive, angry, incompetent, selfish, childish etc. we are. I certainly would never deny that many of us very often are, but so are the spouses/partners, and not always because of us.

As a healthcare professional, I know my husband had ADHD, but he does not want to get additional testing or treatment.  How does a non-ADHD spouse deal with that?  Please do not comment about getting him into treatment or past denial.  He has made that very clear.  I only want to know how non-ADHD spouse copes without ADHD spouse getting the official diagnosis and treatment.

My husband has had multiple Internet/phone sexual encounters with multiple women over the course of our seven year relationship. At one point we separated (he moved out) after he moved back in I found out from his son he had been out with a woman (he took the child with him!!) soon after that I became pregnant. Shortly after the baby was born he once again he was sexting and having women calling him again! At that point he agreed to marriage counseling and ADHD treatment. After one month he quit meds and counseling.

When my husband and I fight, he'll disappear and not return till the next morning.  This has been a new trend since the early summer, and I am at the end of my rope.  I honestly feel like he looks for reasons to escape.  I'll say one wrong thing, and that's it, he's got his cue... he'll take his handheld video games and a bottle of booze, and that's his evening's entertainment.

I am 37, have been dating a 35 year old man with ADD for the past two years. I was fresh out of a divorce from a sex addict who abandoned me and my very young children to a very young woman, overnight, literally, after many affairs and some crazy stuff. I waited a year to date, probably not long enough in retrospect, but my BF was very attentive at first, seemed to really love my kids, and supported me through the legal steps of my divorce (which had only just begun when we met... another mistake on my part to not get through it first).