The Advantages of ADD

[Hackdaddy]

I'm constantly creating and I get depressed if I'm not inventing something new.

Do you have advantages, too, with ADD?

I just wrote a new poem when I heard a new song by the "Trespassers William" that I really liked. I just wrote it down quickly so it's a little rough and unedited. Here it is:


I Lost My Mojo Again

I want to thank God for creating women –
bittersweet as beautiful the sky reaches to the blue truth.

Winding 'round through chords of your smiles and reverberating,
reaching down and swooping up to exaltation.

Winding 'round, ‘round to the beginning again.
Yes, sweet girl, I would live those moments ‘gain and ‘gain.

Bittersweet as beautiful the blue reaches from dirt to sky .
I wish when I'm down I could fly.

And down is your upside smile tying the world to a post.
I wish when I'm down I could fly.

When my face smacks the ground I awake.
Break me down, humble me, Lord.

Sweet grass of youth, green you grow into rough straw
Nourish me, Lord, bless me, Lord.

Echo softly blue you should.
Touch tremble hear me too.

Soar break swoop into blue.
Drift against the paper ending, burning away.

Ink soaks fiber and gold grabs flesh.

 

[wfcamb]

Hey! My ADHD helps me in a strange way. I am a songwriter due to, I believe, my ADHD. Maybe not all ADHD related, but mostly. My ADHD also helps me to see the chords in the music in church. Well, ADHD mixed with Irlene Syndrome (has to do with contrast and lighting). The bolded text on top of the lyrics stick out a lot so I can see them very well. Also, because my thoughts go a million miles an hour, it helps me at work (cashier at Toys "R" Us) to think of something to say to get the customer to buy different things at the registers. Right now, I am one of the top sellers there.

Anyways.. That's a few of them.. Maybe I'll share some more when I get another chance on here..

Thanks for this topic!

God Bless! †

 

[uniquetadpole]

I have Aspergers Syndrome and ADD is a subset if it. I am very creative and am constantly thinking out of the box to solve problems and come up with creative solutions to "work the system" whatever the system may be at the time. Including my difficulties and challenges in life. In fact I have done such a good job at covering up my difficulties that people don't know I have any. In fact I have done this so well that I was not diagnosised properly until this past Jun 2005 because I masked my issues so well. And I am categorized with moderate to severe ADD depending on my stress level. I just work so hard at compensating people don't notice.

Although many times I find it hard to get going on a task...once I get into a rythm I will hyperfocus on that task and wear myself out doing it...but it ends up being outstanding work. I have been told millions of times how great a job I do "when I put my mind to it"...(little do they know it is my mind deciding to do it not me...lol)

Tad

 

[Bluwav]

I have ADD and Im really good at drawing......its one of the things that keep me interested while off my ritalin

 

[Industriaan]

I've got adhd and it helpes out great at university in some courses. i'm in my second year of Electronic engineering, and i always find strange and creative ways of solving problems, sometimes iven my profs don't understands how i came nup with my solution

 

[MrBigMan]

I've never heard of ADD being a positive.
My daughter is anything but productive,creative,or ingenuitive without her meds.
She will just lay around and watch TV or listen to music if she forgets to take them.
She can't even concentrate enough to clean her room without them.

 

[MikeO]

My ADHD was awful as a teen because it was magnified anytime I got nervous (as a teen that happened alot) until I learned how to play guitar! I got more confidence and consequently less nervous. It really helped

 

[InTheGarden]

I think ADD is far more of a disadvantage than an advantage, but I do like that fact that I have a lot of hobbies and interests, and "know a little bit about a lot of things", as an old song says. It makes it easy to find common interests and topics of conversation with others.