Adhd Moments: Adhd in My Life

By Eunice Wong MD

ADHD people have lots of ‘off’ moments, which most people frown at. The author suggests to enjoy these moments instead of being frustrated or angry.

‘Take it easy’, she would say. ‘Have faith in them.’ Do not hurt their self esteem, because ADHD people are not dumb, they know their ‘off’ moments, and they will improve when they experience the negative outcome.

The author with ADHD also shares her tortuous life story, which is inspiring to the readers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore
• Release date: Mar 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781543763928

Eunice Wong MD

Eunice Wong, MD was trained as a pediatrician in the US, now in private practice in Hong Kong. Her main areas of interests are Attention Deficit and/ Hyperactivity Disorder, Counseling; psychopharmacology and neuroscience. Her 3-generation analysis is a key element in her evaluation and management of ADHD and behavioral and mood problems.

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CONTENTS

SECTION 1: ADHD MOMENTS

1:     The Stolen Jewels

2:     Have I Got Dementia, Sister?

3:     Where is my passport?

4:     I have much less car accidents lately.

5:     I swear that I had told you twice already!

6:     Happy New Year? Are you that happy?

7:     Oh, what should I do now? I have slapped the principal’s face today.

8:     How did your car bump into the big tree?

9:     Never Mind, No Need to Attend My Graduation

10:   One More Thing to Do before I Leave Home

11:   Hello, who are you?

12:   Pig head!

13:   To Wait or to Be Waited

14:   To Embarrass or to Be Embarrassed

SECTION 2: ADHD IN MY LIFE

A1. The Ugly Duckling

A2. My Three Wishes

A3. When We Were Young

A4. Struggles of My Father in Poverty

A5. Awakening in Adolescence

A6. Idealism and Pragmatism

A7. Story about Our Group of Four

A8. My First Dream Was Down the Drain

A9. The Secret of the Church Minister

A10. The Workers’ Organisation

A11. Resignation from Nursing School

A12. I want to study medicine.

A13. Taking the US Nationwide Examination MCAT and Also Making a Baby

A14. Application for Medical School

A15. Medical School and Family

A16. Spaced Learning

A17. Having Babies during Medical Study

A18. Cultural and Language Differences

A19. Going West

A20. Back to Hong Kong

A21. Early Struggles in Hong Kong

A22. Taking Licentiate Medical Examination in Hong Kong

A23. Clinical Examination (Part 3 of Licentiate Medical Examination)

A24. The Interns of a Local Hospital

A25. Two Systems, Two Different Perspectives—How the System in the United States Could Easily Lead to Innovation with Better Safety Margin

A26. I cannot control how other departments run.

A27. What can you do with us?

A28. Your fault is you should not have written your finding in the patient’s record, or else, you would be held liable.

A29. Surviving on the Edge of the System

A30. Reflection

A31. ADHD Foundation

Afterword

Part I

ADHD Moments

***Since people with ADHD have very similar behaviors, the following stories are not specific to anyone. They are narrated in first person to make them more relatable to readers.

1

The Stolen Jewels

Once, my second younger sister found incidentally a bag of jewels in my demented father’s top drawer of his dresser. She started to wonder how it appeared in his dresser. My father, after being demented, liked to search people’s trash bin. My sister wondered if he found this bag from the neighbor’s trash bin.

We suspected that the jewels were stolen by a helper who put it in the trash bin of another family (our neighbor) to allow the other helper to pick it up, but it was picked up by our father. We felt a bit uneasy because it must be stolen from some family. Should we report to the police?

The jewels were laid open and shown to my mother, who was very happy and decided to wear a pair of earrings. But we warned her that the original owner would identify them and may charge against her. But our mother said that she looked like a decent person, so no one would dare to charge against her.

Time went by. One day, my first younger sister (Fs) flew back to Hong Kong. My second younger sister (Ss) picked her up from the airport. On their way, Fs told Ss that she lost her jewels and suspected the construction workers stole them and was thinking of reporting to the police. Her husband told her to relax, the jewels would show up one day (he probably knew how absent-minded she was). Ss asked Fs to describe her jewels, which were exactly the same as what Ss found in our father’s dresser.

We then all laughed with tears.

2

Have I Got Dementia, Sister?

Our father got Alzheimer’s, dementia, before he died. We are all sensitive to early signs of dementia amongst us. One day my younger sister called me from overseas. Sister, I don’t know if I have got dementia, I am very worried.

I asked her why so. She said that when she took a shower after