Having Your Needs Met
Dear Readers:
As someone with an AD(H)D diagnosis, what is the most important thing you could have received from your parents in the way of support? What do you want others to understand the most?
The most important thing to understand might be that I cannot control my thoughts because of the ADHD. Some people tend to get easily annoyed whenever I'm lost in my thought train that probably has nothing to do with the topic they're talking about anymore. Patience and understanding towards that fact that people with ADHD can easily get distracted, lost in thoughts or tend to impulsively act on their thought would help a lot.
Regarding my parents, it's quite the same thing (and over time they started learning to be more patient and understanding towards me). When you're telling me to do the dishes and I get distracted because the bottle of dish soap can shoot out bubbles, a friendly reminder that I'm not actually doing what I was supposed to do might help a lot more than becoming angry. It's not my fault.
But that is just my thought. I'm already looking forward to all the other answers to this thread :3
@TheSpiritGuardianOri
What a helpful read! Thank you so much. I think people are very quick to judge children and adults with ADHD claiming they lack self discipline. I think you pointed out beautifully here that there are facets that you can not control. I think it is particularly difficult to find this line in children knowing when to gently redirect and when blatant poor behavior is taking place. These traits are inherently present in children, I understand ADHD can change over time and present differently in adults through distraction, for example. I watched a brief clip on a talk show recently where a woman with ADHD said there are times when she felt she appeared flippant or rude when in fact she was distracted and has found ways to cope by simply requesting the person speaking to her to kindly slow down, or please repeat what they just said. There was also a man on the show who, through teary eyes, expressed that he felt he had missed out on life's little opportunities both professionally and personally as a result of his diagnosis.
I really want this to be a space for compassion and understanding. Please continue to share and support one another. 
