WHY?

So, it was February 2000, I was 17 years old (which is why a lot of search engines still describe this website as 'a teen shares a collection of her poetry along with a wealth of information and advice( I was at college (Leeds College Of Technology if you are interested) and was in the libruary, I was ment to be working on an assigment, but my short attention span and ability to get distracted wtihout much effort from others was resulting in, every time someone's mobile (cell to you Americans) phone went off wtih a text message or a phone call, or people came and went from the work station I was at, general noise or the inevetiable fire alarm being either tested or set off by students for the 'buzz' or 'dare' from their mates, then sirrens from police cars, ambulances as College was near a major hospital (Leeds General Infirmary for those of you who are interested)  or the simple noise of someone pulling open a ring pull on a can of coke, a drop of pappers and folders ment that I was finding studying near enough impossible.  I had a dream a while before, and that was to set up a website, you are now surfing that website (well version 3) so the short version is I managed to succeed in setting up a site, just WHY?  Still remains a mystery to you at this moment in time. There was a guy on the work station accross from me and he was working on a website, so I asked him to help show me the basics so I could have a play.  He did, as a result of his 'Mitzvah' Good Deed www.yadhdpm.co.uk has been online for 7 and a bit years now.

Ever since first using the internet back in 1997 I would find myself spending hours on search engines trying and trying, only to try again and again the next day, I was determind to find a website that would explain ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in a way that would keep me entertained and mean something to me as a young woman who was blessed to have ADHD, only the more I tried to find information the internet or even in general the more frustrated, cranky, iritable and pissed off I was becoming.   There had to be something from a young person who has survived life to date's perspective, didn't there?  Well there wasn't, so as I saw there was a 'gap' in the market I decided to ensure that their soon was a website from my personal view point of ADHD, and how it has been for me.  Utilising the trait of 'hyperfocusing' to my advantage I soon found every spare minute of my time was consumed with plodding on and almost on a personal mission to make mysite appear as if I was looking for a site on ADHD how I would want it to appear. So very quickly my website became a part of others lives, made friends wherever it went, gaining a reputation and just knowing I had and continue to have the ability to touch the hearts of those of you whom choose to spend your time surfing and searching and reading the pages of my site.  As a late teenager turning into a woman for a lot of reasons which I will choose not to list here I found it very hard to acknowledge any form of positive comments/compliments or to say anything in life I was proud of, but since setting up YADHDPM (this site in case you have been in a fog whilst reading) I started to believe I can and will be able to have something to be proud of, and now when I look at my site meter and see just how many of you have chosen over the years to allow YADHDPM into your worlds then I feel proud as this site and what I do with it has supased all expectations or dreams of mine, I have to pinch myself to think WOW!  That is mine, I did that, and boy am I proud to say I run this site.

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