RocketWebmaster – Lauren Edmunds

My Ritalin Journey – Part 1

I want to share my journey to Ritalin. Two weeks ago, I decided to give it a try and I am not sure what that means for me.

In the session with my therapist two weeks ago, I happened to flippantly throw out the words, ‘my undiagnosed ADHD’. She paused me. I had never used this term even once in the last two years of seeing her. She suggests that I give Ritalin a try.

By that evening I had the pale blue and white box with the neat black typeface next to my bed.

Sixteen years ago it seemed like a catch-all acronym or even a scapegoat for teachers who couldn’t teach the child. I believe it is still wildly misunderstood.

In the work that I do I don’t look for a diagnosis, I look for the child’s communication, for their language. The child who isn’t putting his attention on a task in front of him has a story to tell, not just a label to share.

To tell the story of all of these children, I must tell mine first. I want to own my experience in a way that makes room for everyone to own theirs too, including the children we teach.

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October 12, 2023 / 2 minutes of reading

This week, I drove back to Joburg from the Natal coast. I absolutely love a road trip, even if it’s just the N3 straight back home. What I didn’t know for most of yesterday was that an email was waiting for me. My personal blog was ready.

It’s a big deal because for some time now, I have taken my web designer through an ongoing stop-start-stop journey. I am sure he felt like a passenger in the car that keeps stopping at all the pit stops to kick the tyres (again) and second guess the map. (He very kindly never let out one exasperated sigh.)

However, the journey to the beginning (which is here) has arrived. Or at least I have arrived here, because I am again rewriting my first post. Rejection sensitivity is a real thing, trumped only by imposture syndrome. (Queue self-effacing nonsense)

Before I send out the link to some of my closest friends and colleagues, I need one more pass at it. Putting myself out there is harder than it seems.

And so, with that in mind and the thought that maybe if I leap I will fly, here you are too, reading this.

I hope I can entertain you. I hope I can get you to think of things in different ways, to challenge the expected and the norm and I hope to bring you my humanness in a way that supports you in yours.

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My Ritalin Journey – Part 1

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