Supporting
ADHD Awareness Month
Everyone may have heard of ADHD but do you really know about them?
There are a lot of phrases and stereotypes and presumptions such as hyperactivity and many more.
But it’s not about perception and you can’t lump everyone under the same brush
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Diverse Keywords
Diverse Senses
CHALLENGES THE ATTITUDES
An ADHD person faces many opticals and challenges due to the difficulties they live with However, this is not an excuse to use ignorance to demonize and to see the worst out of them
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Valuing ADHD
LOOK BEYOND
Rather than make a judgement of a person’s difficulties, look at the positive qualities and passions. This includes strengths and their positive attributes.
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ADHD Advantage
An ADHD person can achieve many things & to look no closer than the variety of achievers and role models with ADHD
Strengths positive attributes
Positive achievers and role models
For example, there are many positive adhd achievers including a journalist, an award-winning awareness campaigner and advocate, musicians and entertainers.
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ADHD Achievers
However, regardless of a person’s difficulties we also need to value an ADHD person as a citizen if their voices of expressions and insight need to be listened to and be taken seriously and not use their difficulties to silence or oppress them.
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Positive Value
Have a balance between an ADHD person’s difficulties and their positive qualities.
However, we must stop using closed Minds to make negative allegations and judgments
So everyone needs to be smart on how we approach a judge an ADHD person
Written by Keith McKenzie, Project Director Plus Value Awareness
Find out more by visiting the project director’s page
USEFUL LINKS
Official event website by the ADHD Awareness Month Coalition
Plus Value Awareness information for supporting ADHD Awareness Month
The Plus Value Awareness mini feature Higher Aspirations
SOCIAL MEDIA
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Keith McKenzie for Plus Value Awareness
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