[brendonjohn]

With one month to go in the last year of my computer science degree I was diagnosed with ADD.

The psychiatrist gave me some stunning advice: Ritalin or medication will not do your work for you. In my last month of university I was enabled with the ability to start working on projects well before the 48-hour cram period that I had come to know.

I had spent most of my schooling as a child to be made out as an idiot. As I result I'm now awfully quick to recognise when someone is not giving me their respect.

ADD is supposed to be picked up through your younger years. However when I grew up, it was the naughty children that had ADD/ADHD... they were the ones that caught their teachers attention.

Someone like me would never be correctly diagnosed, I has happy internalizing whatever it was that I was thinking about.