Anyone else here have ADD or ADHD?
NerdyGeek
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I was diagnosed with ADD in kindergarten. I started taking Adderall right away and since then, I've upped the dosage a few times to help with me focus during school times. I don't take my medicine on the weekends, after school, during breaks, etc.
Does anyone else here have ADD or ADHD? How do you tend to it? What types of medication do you take to treat your ADHD/ADD?
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I been trying to get a script for Adderall for 6 months, i have a real hard concentrating.
Yeah, my doctor told me when I was in fifth grade that I had ADD and put me on some weird ass pills that my mom made me stop taking after a couple weeks. But it seems like today they are telling almost every kid with attention problems that they are ADD imo.
I got a friend who has ADHD. He's somewhere 'round these here forums.
hehe Its funny to me.
Why beat your child , when you can drug him into submission!?!
I was diagnosed with ADHD, although it is very mild. I still get distracted very easily, and I can find it sometimes hard to focus on one task for a prolonged amount of time. I have to get movement in one way or another, I'm always fidgeting lol
I usually also take the longest on tests\quizzes, no matter the length. I need to sit in the front of a class to be able to pay attention, I've had those troubles in the past haha :P
okay I'm just ranting about me now...
I take a generic version of adderall, but it was mostly prescribed for a boost of energy though I do tend to search for things to read after taking it.
I have the same problems.....
Yeah...it's tough being so distracted and i don't take any medicine for it but i have to deal
Though.. A doc has never said I've had it, but my dad and mom have it so I wouldn't doubt it if I did. I'm always last on a test, even if I know it lol
^^^^ me too!! omg xD yeah i was diagnosed, it's a very mild form though.
Similar to you I was a young child I was diagnosed with ADD but a lot were. Our school was right next to the loud part of town and since it was one of those higher up schools I just zoned out half the time. Later in life my attention span sort of out grew it kind of like how an allergic reaction is overcome by time. I think our attention span as a kid is not stable since we want to be wild, run around etc that we don't take time to particularly pay attention or observe anything. I also had a stutter problem when I was younger but it was due to traumatic events going on in my home life like constant domestic violence.
ADHD. I was diagnosed young.
So... does anyone else feel like ADD is more often an excuse opposed to something that is actually legitimate? The amount of people who think they have ADD/ some form of it is honestly a little ridiculous.
I think many are misdiagnosed, some for a long while, I'm pretty sure.
I was diagnosed with adhd when I was young because my nursery suggested I get tested my mum refused medication and told the doctor im just an excitable child I dont show signs of it now (although I wouldn't call myself normal but then what the hell is normal anyway) I think its just a term that gets thrown around because its easier to say that theres something medically wrong thab to admit your childs just a little shit. In my oppinion its more healthy for a child to be an annoying little shit that tests its boundaries and runs around screaming and playing bizzare games than being a robot that does exactly what its told. Also being wrongly perscribed behaviour altering drugs can make someone with nothing wrong with them develope problems later in life if and when they stop especially
Alot of symtoms of add is just normal behaviour why should children be expected to be engrossed in boring lessons of course they get distracted and so do adults for that matter.
EDIT by the way im not saying add doesn't exist but how can you diagnose it based on a five minute interview, there should be blood tests or brain scans before you say someone has a chemical inbalance or whatever
Doctors these days will try to find the dumbest reasons to misdiagnose you with some bullshit so that you can spend the rest of your life frying your brain with drugs while they make $$$.
I got ADD LOL.