Even with my ADHD med, I struggle to focus on anything for more than 15-30 minutes at a time. I don't know how many times I have to explain this to them.

I could never go back to school at this point. I mean, besides not wanting to get into even more school debt, there's no way I could handle it.

Have been doing battle with my own attention span all winter and you are correct - it makes everything else exponentially more difficult. And hard to make people see that unless they've experienced it. I'm sorry.

Kittyrevolver: Sabetha: I don't know what I would do without the compassion of my Plurk pals

People who don't have chronic illnesses will never quite understand. If we're lucky, they try. But they will never get it.

It is hard to describe these issues to those not affected. They can't seem to grasp the full picture.

aliciachenaux: ChefKarl: very good points

OhCecilia: it is very hard for parents that love you to understand the very idea that their child is 'broken' in any way, even a stubbed toe, so in some cases they can gloss over it so that it is not all consuming, because for some it would be, and children of those parents would never want that for them either. Our parents are also aging