Research Paper Writing
     When I seen the assignment for an argumentive research paper. I thought to myself, “This could be interesting”. I have not written a research paper since I was in high school, 13 years ago…….um, yes that is a long time ago. I was thinking also what a challenge this is going to be because my wife and I are in the process of buying a house, so we are very busy juggling, kids, jobs, packing, and all the new challenges that go with buying a new home. My plate is overflowing with responsibility right now and it’s a little tough to handle at times. I know all of this will pass, and I will get through it, but right now I wish it was all over and that it was summer break, and my summer vacation away from work for 2 weeks………cannot wait. I struggled with coming up with a topic to write about, I thought about it for days. One night my wife said why you don’t write about ADHD, I thought to myself “no  that wouldn’t be interesting”. Then I thought about it some more and decided to do some research about it, and pinpoint what about ADHD exactly going to write about. The more I researched the topic, the more I loved the topic. I am very familiar with what ADHD entails, because my wife was diagnosed with it a couple of years ago. What amazes me is that she went all her life knowing something was wrong, and remembers not being able to concentrate even as far back as elementary school. Finally after the birth of our second son she felt extremely overwhelmed; she was rarely able to finish a task she started. At times she would start 5 projects at once, and not finish them. She just could not concentrate, and has a very impulsive behavior, for example we would have plans to go somewhere and she would be getting ready to go, and then she would start to clean out the pantry in the kitchen, and have everything tore apart then we would end up late to where we were going in the first place. She was also very forgetful, always losing her keys, cellphone, sometimes even her purse. She is a super neat freak with the house, and an over the top germ-a-phob, so she is constantly cleaning, which is good for me cause my clothes are always clean and ironed, and my truck is always spotless thanks to her. She  is also the nicest person you will ever meet and can talk to anyone. She has a lot of friends, and she is known as the fun one in the group. This is one thing that first attracted me to my wife 15 years ago, I loved that she was outgoing, sometimes crazy, and a fly by the seat of your pants kind of girl. I am going to admit, sometimes the ADHD gets in the way, but it’s not her fault.  I wanted to write this research paper on ADHD to get a better understanding of this disorder, so I can be more understanding to my wife with what she struggles with on a daily basis.