I have adhd. So what is it really?

I will explain how medication helps me. This is what it’s like. I was diagnosed years ago. I went on and off Adderrall 3 different times. When I am on Adderral, it’s like night and day. My mind wakes up and I get into art. I do art every single day of my life now. I love to read and research. When I’m not on Adderral, my mind is like a zombie. I watched a lot of tv. I would be bored everywhere I went. On Adderral, my mind becomes alive again and my creative side comes out and I barely even watch tv. I’m much less forgetful as well.

It’s very hard to live with. But I also have hilarious stories because of my ADHD. I’m so forgetful and distracted that I come off so dingy. I’m not even joking, one time my friend and I went to Starbucks around the corner from my house. I was wearing flip flops and didn’t want to have tan lines so I took them off as we sat outside drinking our coffees. As we were walking to the car in the parking lot, we got into an interesting conversation. I stepped into the car and put my flip flops on the ground to slip my feet into them before I got in. My phone rang and I got distracted. When we pulled up to my house and I was about to get out, I realized that when I got distracted, because of my phone ringing while in the parking lot, that I forgot one flip flop. 🤣 We went back and it was still there.

I have so many crazy stories because ADHD is so much more than just about attention. I’ve done so much research. I don’t think so many children should be put on medication. Only if it’s really bad. Adderral affects people with ADHD differently than it would a normal person. It’s not like meth where I go tweak or clean house all day. It’s like my creative side comes alive. I’m interested in learning and more curious.

I look back now and see why I had such a hard time in school. I wish that ADHD was recognized back then. People with ADHD will hyperfocus on things they like. Especially interactive things like being on the computer and video games. But on things they don’t like, they get distracted so easily. They get bored. Their mind will wander. Math was pure hell for me.

There are different teaching methods that are best for people with ADHD. I retain a lot less with audio than visual. I had all kinds of tests done. So someone with ADHD does much better when they learn in a way that’s interactive. Or not just listening to someone, but by having, say a lecturerer, having something visual, like on a projector or something to go along with speaking. It makes it much easier to pay attention. If you don’t have that option, then someone with ADHD should take notes so that they take in more by also visually seeing it. Those are tips anyone can use. But, especially if you suffer from ADHD.

Also, make habits. Put your keys in the same place everyday. People with ADHD are forgetful and disorganized. Make to do lists. I could go on and on. Researching really helped me to learn strategies to help. But, medicine makes my mind not live in a zombie state. So for me, I like both medication and using strategies I’ve learned.

I am an adult who has Adult ADHD. I can promise you, it is VERY REAL. Too many children are diagnosed just because they may be too hyper or get distracted easily.

But, ADHD goes very deep and involves a lot more than the name implies. It affects my daily life. I’ve researched it for years. People can call it whatever they want. But it’s very real.

Brilliantly put! (parent comment and the next, starting with "Ok look at it this way")

It's a shitty situation and a shitty choice but that's the reality of it. If you can get by without drugs that's great..do it! Try everything first!

its masking an ulterior motive to hinder development of people they don't want advancing outside of the predicted crop

neutering lines

ADHD/ADD does exist for sure. The mass medication thing is definitely a problem though. But someone gets more money for pushing pills so it works out the only way it matters (fuck all of you, I GOT MY NEW YACHT!). That is Capitalism, including the corruption that leverages monopolies and crushing or merging of all rivals.

While I agree with you that ADHD is real, I also think that there's definitely some shady shit revolving around it.

Here's my own experience with it. When I was in elementary school, I was deemed the "bad kid" in the class, constantly getting in trouble, had horrible grades, etc. My teacher decided that I had ADHD, and so my parents took me to a Psychiatrist. After testing, they decided that yes, I had ADHD. My parents, being the Boomers they are, just asked "Is there a pill to fix him?" And the Psychiatrist answered that there was a treatment, my parents said "fantastic" and got my prescription, but didn't do any of the followup stuff required for ADHD, because the pills were supposed to "fix" me. Obviously, being the Boomers they were, they couldn't be arsed with the responsibility of making sure I took my pills, threw the bottle at me, and told me I was old enough to handle it on my own. Naturally, being an elementary schooler, I never saw that bottle again. However, magically, I suddenly stopped getting in trouble all together, my grades skyrocketed, and I became a model student. The only difference is that the school THOUGHT I was on pills.

A few years ago, I was having trouble in some of my college classes, I remembered that I was diagnosed with ADHD, and thought that maybe it was holding me back some. I didn't remember much about my pill regiment, but I talked to my doctor about the possibility of getting medicated again. He looked at my file, told me that I had only received one bottle of pills, that had never been refilled. He also said that since I got as far as I have without pills, that I most likely never had ADHD, and was falsely diagnosed.

Unfortunately you're trying to talk to people who haven't had the joy of experiencing it first hand. I once was on the other side of the fence in my beliefs, then my first born happened. Unfortunately the medications they offer do not help him at all. We home school with great struggling and I'm pretty sure he'll never fit in anywhere. My hopes are that he some how won't care, even though it's become obvious that it matters to him already. :(

I apparently have adhd. I was medicated but i sold ritalin in university to junkies, thats actually how I realized how retarded the system is. I pushed an 87 average selling my ritalin and living off campus

I do have ADHD. I didn't start taking Adderall until after college when I got my first office job. I do think it's real, but also think people should find their own coping messages and not take drugs until they need to. That being said, it is not safe for me to drive more then just across town without my Adderall, I also walk into things, knock things over, break things and am very much less observant without it, it's horrible. However, I only take it on days I'm driving a lot or working.

It's so overwhelming but most people in here are no better than the plebeians on Reddit. Simply select the narrative you want to believe and then you get shit like this being posted.

Jesus Christ you guys get more idiotic everyday. Honestly, a lot of you sound like the faggots over on reddit screaming about multiple genders and healthy at every size.

Out of curiosity, heavy metals can also induce excitability. Before people knew mercury was neurotoxic, it was inhaled as a health promoting mist giving coffee-like stimulation. Just makes me think if observed changes in brain composition is genetics, or are these kids being poisoned in some way.

Well I guess this doesn't fully cover ADHD, but it's not completely out of its scope either. However that's just one heavy-metal. There are so many more possibilities, including pesticides and herbicides or other neurologically active agents.

Short‐chained alkyl mercury and elemental mercury produce a constellation of neurological abnormalities collectively referred to as erethism. Erethism includes anxiety, irritability, mania, sleep disturbance, depression, and cognitive deficits. Visual disturbance, hearing loss, paresthesias, and tremor may also be present.

Is hunter vs farmer a false dichotomy? Children are being drugged on an unprecedented scale just for being "unruly". And if ADHD did have some evolutionary usefulness in the past, and since we were all hunters at one point, then why doesn't everyone have ADHD?

I've never believed ADHD was real, just because that is my own conclusion I came to after doing critical thinking about it.. It isn't any thing you can see in a microscope or blood test; It is just arbitrarily labelled to kids that want to be kids and aren't ready to be boring adults yet by sitting in class for literally hours every day and read and study..

I always felt there were many kids at school that would have faired better applying their physical energy to other tasks.

Buh buh but... muh adderall!!!

If your child's school says he has ADD/ADHD the kid is probably just bored or they need you to medicate them so they can be more effectively indoctrinated.