Thursday, January 4, 2007

Alpha Post

Welcome to Ping Pong Brain. If you're what Hartmann describes an Edison, or what LoPorto calls a Da Vinci, then the description used by ADD/ADHD kids to describe their thoughts as ping pong balls bouncing in their heads will likely be immediately familiar.

Ironically, I have taken almost 1/2 a century to figure out why I was so good at applying the art of camouflage to intelligence. Thanks to Clay for screwing up in school so badly that he led us both to a renaissance.

In the pages that follow I'll attempt to make sure the people whose lives are touched by ADD/ADHD understand that Dr. Frank Lawlis was right: It's a disorder...not a disaster. Maybe it's about time that we all begin to look at the kid who can't sit still with envy instead of pity.