The Wizard of ADD?

My Twitter friend Anthony Whyms replaced his picture a few days ago with a picture of the scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. I asked him about it - was it his Halloween “costume”?

Today he sent me a link to a post he wrote on his Moving4ward Internet Marketing Blog.

In the article, he compares building an online business (or really, acheiving any goal at all) to the journey undertaken by the characters in The Wizard of Oz.

Each character was searching for something:

Dorothy - the love and comfort of home
The Scarecrow - to prove his intelligence
The Tin Man - to show he had a heart and feelings
The Cowardly Lion - to show that he was brave
The Wizard - to share what he had learned with others

Anthony asked me which character I was, and I told him, the Scarecrow. Having Attention Deficit Disorder always means proving your intelligence over and over.

I suppose in some ways I am the Wizard, too, since I try to share what I’ve learned with all of you. At times, I guess, we can be any or all of the characters.

It’s the Scarecrow, though, who holds a special place in my heart, just as he did in Dorothy’s. I guess it’s because I know how he feels. It’s hard to feel stupid when you know you aren’t, and worse yet to have to prove it over and over.

Keep him in mind as you raise your own wonderful and amazing ADD child.

The Wizard only needed to give the Scarecrow a diploma to make him feel good about himself. You might need to do a little bit more.

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