A Girl Living with AuDHD: A Journey

As you observed by my first post, music has been a HUGE  part of my life!  I grew up on Sound of Music  and other musicals.  Before I watched Sound of Music , according to my mom I was really colicky!   The only thing that would calm me down as a baby was Garth Brooks and White Noise. Well, fast forward a couple years to when I can remember watching music videos.  Yes, the music videos.  Since I was born in '98, this meant growing up to all the boy bands and stuff like that.  I will never forget watching the "Larger Than Life" music video by the Backstreet Boys with my daddy and being scared of it.  When I watched "I Want it That Way", I started crushing on Nick Carter.  I know I was only 1 or 2 when he was 16, but that doesn't mean I can develop feelings for a guy on my computer screen, right?!   When I was 3, I fell in LOVE with "Miracles Happen" by Myra from The Princess Diaries .  (By the way, SUCH a good song haha) ...

When I was in 3rd grade, my dad was in the hospital a lot.  He was vomitting a lot and lost a ton of weight.  I remember every time he threw up, I got really scared that I would loose him and that he would die.  There were instances where he almost died due to heart problems.  I cannot describe how anxious I was due to everything going on. Now that I am older, I know that he's going to be okay and that the doctors know what they are doing.  It was hard on me then, but now I am okay with whatever happens cause I know that I can do hard things!

Hi! My name is Alyssa Collier and I have had ADHD and anxiety since I was a baby, but I was diagnosed later on.  I created this blog to share my beliefs on ADHD and what it is like having ADHD and anxiety with 20 years of life under my belt. In a nutshell, I would like to introduce a little bit of who I am and about myself and my life thus far. Date of Birth: April 16th, 1998 I live in: Utah Favorite Movie: Don't even get me started...The following have been the movies I've grown up on.  (Mostly I'm a musical geek, but I don't mind some violence...as long as there's a cute guy in it!) High School Musical (All of them, I mean that's how I feel for Zac Efron) Sound Of Music (I was raised on this and watched it everyday--I've probably memorized the entire movie top to bottom and bottom to top) Harry Potter (I watched a couple of them as a kid, but my obsession didn't start until I was 12 years old.)  Hunger Games (I was obsessed with this ...