Daily Excerpt: Andrew's Awesome Adventures with His ADHD Brain (Wilcox) - Plunging Headfirst into a Dilemma
A dventurous, D aring, and Plunging H eadfirst into a D ilemma (ADHD or Superhero?) A bowl of popcorn on my lap and remote in hand, I settle in on the couch to watch one of my favorite superhero movies. Who wouldn’t want to be a superhero? They are courageous in the face of danger, have awesome superpowers, get to be adventurous, and are good looking. However, my ADHD brain doesn’t like to pay attention very long. So, I get bored with the movie and go outside to ride bikes with my brother in the driveway. My brother and I decide it will be fun to tie one end of a piece of rope we found in the garage onto the back of my bike and the other end onto a shelf in our garage to see what would happen when I rode the bike out of the garage and into the driveway. Crash! Basketballs, baseball mitts, tennis rackets, fishing poles, golf balls, and miscellaneous sports equipment fly off the shelf and scatter all over the garage floor. Seeing a basketball bouncing out of the g...