Dear ADHD, NLD, Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, slow processing speed, anxiety and depression.
I just wanted to thank you for everything.
Thank you for the late nights I spent finishing homework.
Thank you for forcing me to leave three different schools.
Thank you for causing me anxiety about college and my future.
Thank you for the “why me?”, moments, crying in front of the mirror.
Thank you for that kid in 4th grade asking “Does the D in ADHD mean dumb?”
Thank you for only 7 hours of sleep in a week for midterms.
Thank you for not being a difference but a disability.
Thank you for bringing a gun to a knife fight where the arena is my brain and the the prize is my psyche.
Thank you for the butterflies in my stomach before a test because I think I'm going to fail even though I ALMOST never do.
Thank you for almost causing me to slip through the cracks.
Thank you for the times you made me feel useless.
Thank you for making me take twice as long to do work.
Thank you for the loss of my social life before junior year of highschool.
Thank you for the psychologist’s appointments.
Thank you so much, but you will never win, because I won’t let you, even if that means fighting till we’re both dead in the ground.