ADHD Persuasive Speech

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Please wait for me to catch up to reality.
Trust me, I’m trying, but when life moves as fast as it does, it becomes too late and I miss out on yet again another possibility.
Please wait for me to think of a half-hearted excuse as to why I can't go out tonight because telling someone that I want to lay in bed and stare at the ceiling isn’t the best excuse.
Please bear with me.
I promise I didn’t mean to interrupt you, I just have so much to say and no one to say it to.
But it’s frustrating trying to find the right use of my words so it’s easier just to leave them alone, pathetic and forgotten.
Everything is frustrating.
From a tick of a clock to trying to explain a movie.
Eventually, though, that frustration builds up and I have nowhere
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I care too much yet I care too little.
I care that my grades probably aren’t the best but when you have people telling you to work harder and to get your act together all that motivation I once had withers away leaving me with an unsure and shaky mindset.
ADHD isn’t just getting a little hyper or zoning out in class.
ADHD is forgetting to eat all day.
It’s not showering for days because you can’t muster up the energy to do something so mundane and simple.
It’s being fully aware of how much stuff you have to do yet not doing any of it.
Please trust me when I say that I know what to do. I just can’t do what I know.
And if you do trust me I can’t thank you enough for that.
But if you don’t trust me I understand because sometimes even I don’t trust me.
I can never predict what I will say next, but most of the time I just stay silent because it’s so much easier to listen than have to spout empty sentences that, in reality, mean nothing to me.
And before you ask for my medication so you can pull an all-nighter, I want you to try living your life with

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