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I have ADD but, never tested.........

Love233

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I remember growing and up in school all the teachers reporting to my folks I was daydreaming all day and stuff. Nothing was worse than the punishment I endured in my youth as a grade schooler frome other kids I endured. The ridecule and harassment was endless, merciless. In the end I guess I was in a class by myself. The kids, the 'normal' kids were so far from me. In my innocence I wanted to be 'like' them and have a big group of friends but, also afraid of them. They were into things I wasn't. Sex, maybe even drinking, rowdiness. That much looking back on glad I didn't get into too soon (like them I suppose). Birds of a feather flock together but, I was alone.

Anyway, the older I get the more I am different from everyone else. Sometimes...... I feel stupid:o. I lack some common sense but, posess most if not all add symptoms. Iv'e recently within the last month or so been bumped back at work. Don't get me wrong, now the boss put up with a lot of my :sorry: (stupidity) like over the last year.... no 2 (can't lie). Anyways, I finally looked up on webmd symptoms of ADD. I had them all accept the hyper ones. I wish to God I could 'see clearly' and do everything I see even 15-16 year olds can do and not ever get repermanded for these mistakes. I feel kinda' low right now:destroyed:. Another thing; I have NO perception of time, can't even tell you what the date is today though I know it's around the 20th of ... March. Gee if I got That one right, I'll be thrilled ... LOL
Anyways the time-passing thing is good cause sometimes I can't really tell if hours have actually passed (without looking at the clock). It takes me much longer to do tasks that would take others to do in much less time. Sometimes though I have difficulty waiting 10 minutes. Kinda spilled my guts but, hope to God someone will actually 'hear' me.
 
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Hi Love 233, I realise it's been months since you posted this, but just wondered how you were getting on with this side of life? Did you go for a dx, or did the understanding of having ADD help you find ways to cope?

Just checking up, since you were quite down in this post. Kind thoughts to you :)
 
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Not sure what to tell ya. Don't believe everything that you read for one. I've been getting a lot of crap on here about how I don't actually have things wrong with me or even got told I was possessed by demons at one point.

As far as real life advice goes, I'd check it out with a doctor. Though I must say from personal experience medication doesn't always work. Sometime it even makes the problem worse but it is looking into if it's causing you a lot of problems. I'm dyslexic (lesdyxia!, yes, haha) and have a job that requires proper spelling (yay for computers) but people put up with me for small mistakes like that.

I'm not sure if I have ADD/ADHD (lack of money to get it "offically" checked out) but I have to have many things going at once to be able to focus on one thing. Otherwise I get distracted and loose my train of thought constantly. For example, I'm listening to music, watching Family Guy, and playing Yahtzee while trying to type in the forums. I can focus on typing because there's so much other things I have to drown out. I don't really get it all but I know what makes for me. Just gotta figure out what works I guess.
 
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