I have watched the news reports this week about the hijackings and destruction with keen interest. I simply cannot imagine the terror of those who were in the airplanes and in the buildings, nor do I want to imagine it too much. You see, many of us with ADD get, for lack of a better word, visual pictures. We imagine things sometimes just a bit more realistically than others and we certainly feel things with a greater intensity. Yesterdays news reports said something about the rescuers removing body parts instead of bodies and about full grown men who came away from the sights they saw shaking and with tears streaming down their faces. It is not a picture I want to see, but it is the picture of my country at this time.
It has been said that terrorists believe that Americans don’t have the gumption to fight back against something like this. The terrorists don’t know us very well. Even we, as those with ADD, have enough anger and resolve to fight back – in a variety of ways. I can’t wait until we see the creativity of those with ADD and how we contribute to the efforts to deal with this tragedy. I’m sure many of us are there as firemen and policemen and nurses and doctors who are participating in the rescue efforts.
I think because we feel things a bit more intensely, we feel the pain of the victims and their families – and we want to reach out to them. I’m sure there are ADDers who have provided help to those in need, to those who are hurting. I certainly have no eye-witness reports, I am fortunate to live far away from these tragedies, but I am just as certain these things that I’m telling you have happened and will continue to happen. And it is, of course, not just ADDers with compassion. We as Americans are a compassionate people. We are now a determined people.
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