Something I must keep in mind.

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I have ADD. The most obvious problem this gives me is that I have trouble getting started working, though sometimes I also have a lot of trouble staying on task, too. However, I have come to realize that my greatest problem, weakness and flaw is not the ADD, but a maladaptive coping mechanism I have developed: lying. If anyone, no matter how innocently or helpfully, asks me about how my work is going, I will lie and evade without a moment's thought or hesitation. I suspect that it derives from the way I dealt with my parents' inquiries into my homework when I was boy. I hate other folks giving me orders, but more than that, I think it was because I couldn't bear their disapproval, and that's what I felt I always got. I must deal with this problem and change my ways, because I will never live a life worth living otherwise. And I must not let myself forget...