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This is an amazing thread.  Thinking made me feel grateful that there were many things I didn't regret and also that made my life easier, which is humbling - my life has been easier for mostly reasons that are just luck.

My biggest regret  is not identifying and working on approaches to ADHD and impulsive behavior.  I was an excellent student so thrived without needing any organizational skills or personal responsibility. Then it took a long period as an adult to work on - and there are a number of *basic* things I wish I had learned how to do earlier that have been really painful lessons.  It is hard to describe how basic these things are -- how to keep a to do list, how to remember peoples' addresses, how to do a project not all the day/night before.  And how not to take the same approach to personal care, relationships and my house.   [/quote]

This really resonates with me. I have ADHD and had to teach myself a lot of this stuff as well. My husband has ADHD too, but doesn't try to manage it.

Now we have three kids with ADHD. I'm trying soooo hard to teach them these basic life skills, along with helping them catch up academically and socially. It's hard because my husband is not cooperative or supportive. So now I'm an ADHD mom trying to raise my ADHD kids and I'm drowning and feel so alone.

It's easy to see how ADHD parents (who have a harder time at basic life skills) drop the ball when raising their ADHD kids (who need more help than other kids). I'm going to tell my kids to get some non-ADHD genes in the pool when they're ready to date.[/quote]

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