Flipping the Golden Rule: Why Self-Respect Must Come First

Most of us learned the Golden Rule as children: treat others the way you want to be treated . It's a simple, powerful idea, and I believe in it completely. Then I got diagnosed with ADHD at fifty and started paying attention to how I actually talked to myself. What I found was uncomfortable. I was extending patience, grace, and compassion to people around me while running a relentless internal…