I have adult ADHD. I wish I had accepted my mental disability

You can't live a easy life if you keep your hands in your pockets and say "I tried"
If you tried and it didn't work just try harder, and if it's not working continue to try harder and harder, don't lose faith until it work, try elsewhere, try differently but don't give up, it's useless
You think you're going to win something by giving up ? That's not how it work, work you ass off, break your back working as a janitor and one day you'll own the building as they say
Your 20s are almost over ? So what ? Life isn't defined by your age or your experience but by your willpower
Stop complaining, act.

>>17595817
>You think you're going to win something by giving up ?
No, I need to cut my losses and find a new path. I was delusional, thinking I could be the artist I wanted. It's time to find something else and salvage what's left of my future.

>>17595790
Maybe get a new diploma? If it helps you?

>>17595918
I don't think digging myself deeper would help, no. I think I need to get the fuck out of here and start a new life.

Michael Jordan didn't make it onto his highschool basketball team. Look at him now.

If you still want to be a graphic designer above everything else, don't give up on your dream anon. I have ADHD too. I believe in you.

>>17596182
That's nice of you. But I'm 27, way too old to be trying so hard and still failing.

>>17596727
27 isn't old.

look up executive function and how it relates to ADD
really helped me just understanding my disorder

also, seriously, get on the meds
either Stratera or Ritalin/Adderall/other stims
they really do work really well

>>17597037
again, let me reiterate
GET ON THE MEDS
ADD meds have some of the best therapeutic results of any mental illness
when I was still on em (and when I take Adderall I buy from people who still have scrips) it was like flipping a switch
suddenly I could concentrate and give a damn

>>17596727

>That's nice of you. But I'm 27, way too old to be trying so hard and still failing.

Fucking, you realise that most of the world is people fucking up shit way into their 40s? Don't be so fucking rude to other people, 27 is very young, you never know what's around the corner, and you have every right to pursue your dreams and nothing is stopping you.

The only limit is your mind. Yes, it sucks that you couldn't get that support before, but you have MANY good things.

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>>17597037
I'll look into it, thanks.

The downside of the meds is that they gave me manic highs. I don't like the idea that I can only be functioning at 100% or 0%, depending on whether I'm medicated.

>>17597052
I didn't mean to be rude. Sorry if I offended.

>>17595817
>break your back working as a janitor and one day you'll own the building
No, it doesn't work like that lmao

>>17595817
Stop dressing the pig in a tuxedo and forcing it to do playback. It's fake and upsetting everyone. The pig is just a simple pig, eating and doing its business as a pig, stop trying to make grow him wings. That shit won't fly.

>>17595790
OP, get on medication.
My boyfriend is 32 and has ADHD. He's on Adderall.
By far the best person I know. Extremely successful in his job and pretty fucking happy, too.
Don't give up on your dreams. Having a disability isn't the end of the world.

>>17597416
>>17597052
That anon is right. 27 is way younger than you're giving credit.

A guy a few doors down from me who had worked computers all his life, bloody hated it but couldn't resolve to quit until mid-40's because it was his skill set.

Now he makes picture frames for a living, and he couldn't be happier.

The point is, you only need a small fraction of your life to make a change you want to see, and you'll get a much bigger payoff than people like him. And if they can be happy, so can you.

>>17598429
I know. It's just that, between age 22 and 27, I feel like I aged about a hundred years.