Chapter 3: ADHD: The Cloud Lifted- Julie Gilbert

In the short story, ADHD: The Cloud Lifted by Julie Gilbert basically talked about Gilbert life growing up with ADHD and how she was not even the chance a normal child would have because of her disorder. Gilbert later in life came to the realization that she was not "... subnormal" (Anderson 71) but she was different and different did not mean bad. At the end of her story she talks about the many people who are just like her out there and how misunderstood they are about their condition. She even goes on to say "I often wonder if the world will ever realize how gifted and intelligent they really are."(Anderson 71). The way Gilbert began the story was misleading. I would have never thought that she was actually going to talk about her disorder, but more about how she was a child at least that is what I got when I began reading the story. The opening of the story is actually not effective, but more misleading to any reader. It does not do a good job of grabbing my attention.