tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post165596070925524029..comments2024-01-27T06:40:25.550-05:00Comments on Green Tea Ginger: Extending Acceptance to MyselfAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09934296564253625199noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post-49327807213700602902014-03-08T03:16:11.979-05:002014-03-08T03:16:11.979-05:00Hey are using Wordpress for your blog platform? I&...Hey are using Wordpress for your blog platform? I'm new to the blog world but I'm trying to get started and set up my own. Do you need any coding knowledge to make your own blog? Any help would be greatly appreciated!<a href="http://www.mohanitea.com/" rel="nofollow">Green Tea</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17748199354450870062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post-12085890689489685162014-03-01T18:44:55.786-05:002014-03-01T18:44:55.786-05:00Wow, this sure made me think a lot. Sometimes I...Wow, this sure made me think a lot. Sometimes I'm so inside my own experience that I forget how odd it is and why I might be anxious for a reason--and that maybe I don't even need to be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post-8464804970804320122014-03-01T13:58:19.869-05:002014-03-01T13:58:19.869-05:00Yes! I get it! And it feels so good to hear someon...Yes! I get it! And it feels so good to hear someone else say it, too. I am so tired of my lack of focus and initiative and all the voices in there telling me what a failure I am from the moment I wake up to the moment I finally manage to sleep.<br />Like you, I succeed in the structure of school or work; but without those, I am adrift on the sea of too much with too few concrete expectations (my expectations of myself are myriad). I am pinned down, immobilized, and I hate myself for it.<br />I was always the daydreamer who spent too many recesses inside finishing class work , the only kid in the class with homework because I just couldn't manage to focus in class. My second grade teacher thought I was mentally deficient...till a test showed that I was reading at the ninth grade level. I was constantly criticized at home and school for my lack of focus (though my mom has undiagnosed ADD as well). I still lug all those stupid attitudes around with me in my hyper-fixated, depressed brain.<br />I have two wishes that I have been seeking to fulfill for years. The first is to be able to focus on the moment. I don't want to be so disengaged and I want to experience life in the now; to drink it all in and embrace it and then move on to the next moment. Instead, my mind lives in the past and the future and in the what ifs and in some distant place I can't even define.<br />My second wish is to be strong enough to exert my own structure, so I have something to work within, so I can feel successful again. It's been a long time since I've felt successful.<br />I wish you the best in your journey of self discovery, and I wish the same for myself. I pray we both find solid ground, no longer adrift. Thank you for sharing and for listening.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post-54793039485848870922014-02-23T11:05:42.567-05:002014-02-23T11:05:42.567-05:00Blogging Astrid, the diagnosis thing is an odd one...Blogging Astrid, the diagnosis thing is an odd one isn't it? I am pretty sure I have ADHD and I suspect a hefty LD as well. I know that if we had been settled in one spot long enough the school would have picked up on it. But I can't help shake that an official diagnosis will somehow validated my experience. I don't like that feeling and I need to examine it.<br /><br />Thanks Diane. I hope so too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09934296564253625199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post-75349048589181657362014-02-22T21:40:01.353-05:002014-02-22T21:40:01.353-05:00I don't have a lot of experience with this, bu...I don't have a lot of experience with this, but just wanted to say I love ya friend and I hope you find the answers you're looking for. XOXOAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02969583850608945673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post-52031441201513377392014-02-22T03:04:30.008-05:002014-02-22T03:04:30.008-05:00This is such a beautiful post. I understand your h...This is such a beautiful post. I understand your haivng a hard tiem accepting yourself even as you fight for acceptanc eof your daughters. I remember wheN I was still self-diagnosed as autistic, I had a much harder time accepting myself than now thaT I'm formally diagnosed. Then again, should such a professional confirmation matter? I don't think so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post-81274283608169030052014-02-21T10:24:44.016-05:002014-02-21T10:24:44.016-05:00Thanks Jesi. Like I said I am open to meds but it&...Thanks Jesi. Like I said I am open to meds but it's not something I am sold on. I think therapy is in order LOL but I'm also aware that because of our effed up system I might not be able to do the therapy. Irregardless I am very much going to be exploring this in terms of how to make it a positive.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09934296564253625199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post-21611759931510944442014-02-20T22:52:38.441-05:002014-02-20T22:52:38.441-05:00You're not that different from a lot of people...You're not that different from a lot of people, Ginger. You're definitely not that much different from me. I had started writing my blog to keep those inner voices quiet. I think there are a LOT of people like us. I think that there are so many people like us that they "invented" a name for it, and are selling us drugs for it. But I'm not sure it's something that needs to be "corrected". Rather, I think that if we recognize it, and learn to work around it or with it, we can function better. But everything you've been feeling... I've been feeling too. You're not alone.The BearMaidennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30468582.post-60251664276711733732014-02-20T22:48:40.999-05:002014-02-20T22:48:40.999-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jesihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15661998494430238738noreply@blogger.com