About

My Story

I started this blog as a way to share my thoughts and life in general dealing with a child with ADHD. Most of the blogs/instagram/etc tend to be from a mothers viewpoint. I wanted to create a place for dads to be able to hear the perspective from another dad, see the frustrations, and ultimately, the successes.

My oldest turned 10 not long ago. She was officially diagnosed with ADHD about 3 years ago. In the grand scheme of ADHD, her symptoms are probably on the mild side. She tends to hyper-fixate on things, and is not the most flexible when plans change. We have to give her a lot of advanced notice of plans so she can prepare herself.

One of the most common times she would hyperfixate was in the middle of the night. She would insist of sleeping in our bed and would fight us until we either relented, or my wife or I would sleep in her bed. The led to many fights at night, sleepless nights, and lots of tired days at both school for her, and work for us. This impacted her relationships with her friends and her learning, and my wife and I typically had short fuses since we were both so tired.

Along with the ADHD, she does have some anxiety. Our neurologist explained that these sometime go hand in hand. She constantly worries about everything; runs a million scenarios in her head and convinces herself things are going to be bad, when in fact, they aren’t.

Before her official diagnosis, we tried every type of therapy imaginable. We were reluctant to start medications, but the medicines have helped. It took a while to find the right medications (well over 2 years), but we are light years ahead of where we were. Our goal is to figure out a long-term solution and reduce medication.

For her 10th birthday, we got her an apple watch. We thought it would be a good way for us to keep tabs on her and keep in contact with her during school and her us in an emergency. Some of the texts are comical. Textsfrommydaugherwas born.