Dear Anchor, ADHD sounded terrible to me, with the only word I knew from the acronym being disorder. I didn't expect anything good to come from it. I was nervous and scared that ADHD could ruin everything. When I was given an ADHD workbook, it explained what ADHD meant (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), the symptoms (easily distracted, strong impulses), and it gave me ways to cope with it. That book is what told me I had mixed ADHD. The first thing that the ADHD book