Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, experiences, and immediate context.

— L. Todd Rose

Don't waste your time being what someone wants you to become, in order to feed their list of rules, boundaries and insecurities. Find your tribe. They will allow you to be you, while you dance in the rain.

— Shannon L. Alder

Every person with ADHD already knows that destination addiction is part of their disorder. However, if it doesn’t have a positive outlet, it can destroy your life. It is not another person that will make your life better; it is the qualities in them that you admire. Incorporate those attributes into your own life and you won’t miss a thing.

— Shannon L. Alder

Forgive your child and yourself nightly. You didn't ask to live with the effects of ADHD any more than did your child.

— Martin L. Kutscher

For me, all those systematic Bureaucracies of traditional schools jaded me. For me, I still couldn’t understand why we have to have a factory style education for children living in the 21st century. Why hold them in place, asking them to read and repeat and giving them a number of tasks to finish? I still have no idea how exams and objective assessments could measure human behavior or intelligence. Is it some kind of barcoding human aptitude? Is it ethical anyway?

— Neda Aria

If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!

— E.J. Plows

I have been investigating this modern problem of decline in readership and my conclusion is that it has little to do with bad readership and a lot with a difference in information speed. Frankly, the modern brain is much faster than the classical brain was in how it absorbs information and novels do not reflect this development. They are simply not dense enough. Too slow, not the right tempo - bores the shit out of a modern brain! There's the real problem: our brains have developed into different speed levels that authors can't adjust to. It has nothing whatsoever to do with quality: it has rather a lot to do with people claiming to be authors who are incapable of concentrating their ideas in the right sort of space, and rather smear out a few already half baked ideas over 30 plus pages. Hello! Do you think its weird a facebooktrained mind, capable of digesting enormous amounts of information at quick speeds, is bored shitless with that? The problem is not bad readership but rather bad authorship: authors that cannot adjust to the times. And since there are a zillion books published every day of authors that just can't keep up with the speed of the times, and criticism hardly exists anymore in modern society, it becomes simply very unattractive to read books, unless one keeps to the classics, which are books that are much denser at essence.

— Martijn Benders

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do not attend to the things said to them, because they are always fully engrossed with the things they are doing. For indeed few men are idle in democratic nations; life is passed in the midst of noise and excitement, and men are so engaged in acting that little remains to them for thinking. I would especially remark that they are not only employed, but that they are passionately devoted to their employments. They are always in action, and each of their actions absorbs their faculties: the zeal which they display in business puts out the enthusiasm they might otherwise entertain for idea.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is growing up different. It is extreme hypersensitivity. Furthermore, it is a bottomless pit of feeling you're failing, but three days later, you feel you can do anything, only to end the week when you began. Furthermore, it is not learning from your mistakes. Furthermore, it is distrusting people because you have been hurt enough. Furthermore, it is moments of knowing your pain is self-inflicted, followed by blaming the world. Furthermore, it is wanting to listen, but you just can’t anymore because your life has been to full of people that have judged you. Furthermore, it is fighting to be right; so for once in your life someone will respect and hear you for a change. Furthermore, it is a tiring life of endless games with people, in order to seek stimulus. Furthermore, it is a hyper focus, so intense about what bothers you, that you can’t pay attention to anything else, for very long. Furthermore, it is a never-ending routine of forgetting things. Furthermore, it is a boredom and lack of contentment that keeps you running into the arms of anyone that has enough patience to stick around. Furthermore, it wears you out. Furthermore, it wears everyone out. Furthermore, it makes you question God’s plan. You misinterpret everything, and you allow your creative mind to fill the gaps with the same old chains that bind you. It narrows your vision of who you let into your life. It is speaking and acting without thinking. Furthermore, it is disconnecting from the ones you love because your mind has taken you back to what you can’t let go of. Furthermore, it is risk taking, thrill seeking and moodiness that never ends. You hang your hope on “signs” and abandon reason for remedy. It is devotion to the gifts and talents you have been given, that provide temporary relief. It is the latching onto the acceptance of others---like a scared child abandoned on a sidewalk. Furthermore, it is a drive that has no end, and without “focus” it takes you nowhere. Furthermore, it is the deepest anger when someone you love hurts you, and the greatest love when they don't. Furthermore, it is beauty when it has purpose. Furthermore, it is agony when it doesn’t. Furthermore, it is called Attention Deficit Disorder.

— Shannon L. Alder

It's a sad day when your iPhone becomes a horror, witches hunt your soul, and you have to seek the resurrection stone just to find yourself. I was hardly Harry Potter. There was no lightening bolt on my forehead, but if you knew my life you would have met a storm.

— Shannon L. Alder