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ADHD Articles that may offer insight

Awesome, whole world should read this.


20% of teenage (m) population!?

If that's true, we're not talking about a disorder, it's rather a simple trait. Saying ADHD is a disorder would be the same as saying being ectomorph is a disorder. Of course, ADHD is over diagnosed...

Great post explaining how often ADHD falls into falsely diagnosed disorder. I'm professionally diagnosed with ADHD, and while I'm a very impatient person, blur our often and 'shake' my legs all day, there's nothing else to it! I personally don't see it as disadvantage anywhere else EXCEPT in school! BUT, that can be solved also! I had periods of time when I had brilliant grades and periods when I almost failed the same class. Motivation, people with ADHD can't force themselves to do stuff they hate. Oh yeah, and just don't give me chocolate...

Honestly, I think only 10 out of 100 of those diagnosed need a treatment/medications.
I'll be true to myself and say my diagnosis is not completely true, but I wouldn't say it's a lie either. I think that's the case with most people.
 
My ADHD diagnosis did more to explain my problems than any other, besides AS. Having them both recognized has saved me a great deal of time, expense, and trouble, since I can recognize very quickly when a proposed 'solution' for something won't work for me.

I don't know enough to have an opinion about false diagnoses, but I get uneasy when I hear people say it's grossly inflated. I believe there are a lot of people struggling with social problems merely because they are too bright and energetic for what passes as "normal."
 
We had a classmate whose behaviour was unpredictable on a good day. At the start of Grade 10 he was sent to a private school.

At Christmas he pleaded with his parents to bring him back. They agreed, on one condition. Sugar would be cut out of his diet as much as plausible.

The only problem he had over his remaining years in high school was graduating a year late because he returned at a bad time to do so.

The only time I heard of Ritalin was in a news story where it would be combined with Talwyn to get high.

But, hey, I'm not trying to repay medical school bills.
 
A few people have wrongly tried labeling me with ADD or ADHD before, especially when I was a kid. I got so sick and tired of random idiots telling me I needed Ritalin. I was bored as hell! Another reason I'm so happy my mother homeschooled me, because she gave me schoolwork on my level and I went at it like a normal kid then. And I always had lots of energy as a kid. Once I'd had a chance to work them out, they were no longer a distraction and again I could focus fine. Excessive energy is like a very tickly itch on an awkward place of your body (like the bottom of your foot after you've laced up your shoes) and, sometimes you just have to excuse yourself and go scratch it before you can focus. I still have trouble focusing on things when I'm bored, it's hard finding things that are the right challenge level for me. It's either too easy or too difficult, very hard to find that happy middle ground that's perfect for me to work with.
 
AsheSkyler said:
A few people have wrongly tried labeling me with ADD or ADHD before, especially when I was a kid. I got so sick and tired of random idiots telling me I needed Ritalin. I was bored as hell! Another reason I'm so happy my mother homeschooled me, because she gave me schoolwork on my level and I went at it like a normal kid then. And I always had lots of energy as a kid. Once I'd had a chance to work them out, they were no longer a distraction and again I could focus fine. Excessive energy is like a very tickly itch on an awkward place of your body (like the bottom of your foot after you've laced up your shoes) and, sometimes you just have to excuse yourself and go scratch it before you can focus. I still have trouble focusing on things when I'm bored, it's hard finding things that are the right challenge level for me. It's either too easy or too difficult, very hard to find that happy middle ground that's perfect for me to work with.
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The psych world is riddled with idjiots :rolleyes:
 
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