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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]omg will some people never never stop blaming their parents for every goddamned thing it's so pathetic[/quote]

I wish people would stop blaming ADD. My child is ADHD as am I. Both of us are probably too social.[/quote]

Your experience with ADD may differ, but as I have accepted my ADD and understood it more, I realize how much it has hindered my ability to maintain friendships.  I too am social.  I make too many friends, just like I start too many projects, and don't finish them.  Like how I keep piles if clutter everywhere because if I put something out of sight I forget it exists, I have been great at maintaining friendships that are right in front of me every day, like coworkers I see every day or roommates in college.  But adult frienships, especially separated by distance (and by that I mean even a quarter turn around the Beltway in traffic) are so, so much harder for me.  By the time I think of people, I feel so guilty for neglecting them that I avoid them and spiral away from them.

OP, like you I grew up with parents with no friends and I vowed to be better at it.  But here I am in my 40's with a kid with 600+ Facebook "friends" and no one who has come to my house to visit for months and months.  No socializing st all.  It's so lonely.  My neighborhood is no good for making friends, I haven't time for hobbies, I don't live close to friends, and it's so hard.  I sympathize.[/quote]

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