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@TeenWolf

I'm not sure if this is valid but I have many family members who have suffered with ADHD/ADD including my older brother who's childhood wasn't the best, on and off medication, frequent breakdowns and went to a school all week and came back only for the weekends, it was sad to watch him grow into a foul mouthed, troubled teen, addicted to taking and selling drugs and violent crimes leading to jailtime, completely lost in the system. People need to acknowledge and sympathise more with people who suffer from ADHD, they need love x

@TeenWolf

I'm not sure if this is valid but I have many family members who have suffered with ADHD/ADD including my older brother who's childhood wasn't the best, on and off medication, frequent breakdowns and went to a school all week and came back only for the weekends, it was sad to watch him grow into a foul mouthed, troubled teen, addicted to taking and selling drugs and violent crimes leading to jailtime, completely lost in the system. People need to acknowledge and sympathise more with people who suffer from ADHD, they need love x

Well, I am 25 and was diagnosed ADHD last year. I did well in school until I moved to another state, the summer before 4th grade. My grades worsened in my teen years. I failed the 8th grade twice. First time, I had chronic sinusitis and stayed awake all night playing guitar so I had missed a lot of school. I somehow managed to convice my parents to let me be homeschooled since I was always sick and never slept. I never touched that school computer, had no help/support from my parents, and was retained to 8th grade yet again. By 10th, my dad had committed suicide and I was in a toxic relationship with a guy I had met online but kind of knew b/c he went to my highschool, but was a couple years older. He encouraged me to drop out of highschool, marry him, and move to TX with him. Him and his parents had a knack for making me feel unintelligent and rubbed the fact that I dropped out and have accomplished nothing in my life into my face and that his perfect, precious son could do so much better. He put my self esteem in the gutter, I had no motivation to get a license to drive, get a GED, or a job the entire time we were married. I wasn't allowed to speak in public because he said I always sounded like an idiot. (there were also a lot of abusive, manipulative things, but I won't add this here, lol) One day, in 2013 he finally left me and sent me divorce papers in the mail a couple years later. His only explanation was, "This isn't going to work"...? My self-esteem has slowly started to rebuild since the divorce. I got a job later in 2013. I tried an anti-depressant/anxiety (Celexa) for a while because I developed social anxiety, but I found myself still being forgetful, impulsive, and scatterbrained, so I got off those meds after some healing and recovery from the separation/grief. I came to LOVE my job, and wanted a management position and the only way I could do that was to improve perfomance. I possed the speed and energy, just not the skill. I was very slow to train upon hiring and I couldn't retain anything that was taught to me. I genuinely believed I was an idiot and would never be able to hold down a job. My lovely aunt, who also had ADHD recommended I see a pyschologist to get a diagnosis, so I did. I now take 20 mgs of RItalin 2x a day. It was almost scary how easy it was to get a presciption :/ I believe the Ritalin aided me a little, I did get promoted. I know there isn't a miracle drug for ADHD, so I don't bother asking my doc about increasing mgs or trying something else...but I still wonder if there is anything else worth trying? I swear I still have the attention span of a damn gnat! LOL
My symptoms:

Forgetfulness

Focusing

Listening

Impulsive speech

Hyperfocusing and behavioral issues when doing so..

I grew up watching my brother struggle with ADHD his whole life. He would alwasy be in trouble at school and not do the best he could until he got medication for it. After that he did very well and wasnt in as much trouble.

I also have grown up watching my mom stuggle with ADD. She really struggles with it and it effects her a the workplace sometimes. When i ask her things, she wont even notice i said anything until I say it again. She is medicated for it, but it doesnt help as well as it should i feel like.

Mirandaxx

My story with ADD is I guess a normal experience? When I was in 3rd grade I was diagnosed with it and then I was put on foclin (probably spelt that wrong) and so around 4th grade I had a rebellious phase and didn't wanna take my meds and my grades dropped till bout fith grade I just did what I was told and ended up scoring around top ten in state on my eog.

Treatment

I've already been diagnosed with ADHD when I was a child so I don't even remember how old I was at that time. During that time I've had problems with reading, writing, listening and overall paying attention to something and thus had to take several medications that helped me to cope with my ADHD. However, the older I grew the more I wanted to get rid of these medications and slowly stopped taking them after some time. It was a good decision for me as I benefit a lot more from coping with ADHD myself rather than having to take meds every single day that I'd most likely forget to take.

Impact of ADHD on me

ADHD has always been a part of me and I never really even thought about what my life would be like without it. As mentioned before I've had problems with reading, writing and listening as I'd either get distracted while I want to do these things or already forgot about the beginning in the middle of a sentence. Therefore I sometimes need more time to read, write and listen but that isn't too much of a problem except for some teachers I used to have back then. According to my doctor, my procrastination could also be a result of ADHD but as long as it isn't too much of a big deal, I'll still be fine with that.

I can also be very inattentive at times and tend to daydream a lot. That's why I'm easily forgetting things, misplacing things and regularly distracted. Hyperactivity isn't that much present in my symptoms except for that I constantly need to move at least one body part.

Dealing with ADHD

I found dealing with my ADHD quite easy once I introduced routines and reminders like calendars in my life. When I write down everything I need to do or want to do and note down every appointment in my calendar it is really hard to forget those things despite being quite forgetful.
A lot of calming techniques like breathing and meditation help me a lot to get my focus back to the things I need and want to do and thus makes it easier for me to not be distracted as much.
Trying to act a desired way and rewarding myself if that worked also made me a lot better at reading, writing and listening without losing my attention too easily. However, there are good days at which it doesn't seem like I'd have ADHD at all and then there are bad days where I'm easily distracted by anything.

As an adult with adhd i feel like of like the odd one out. All the time. I know i dont quite "get" social stuff like others do. I am ALWAYS late. Like i blink and five minutes has gone by. I can not be on time to save my life.

Tv is the bane of my existence. The motion and sound always steal my attention. My friends joke that i keep getting kidnapped by the tv but its true! I do.

I fidget all the time. I interupt. And sometimes i just get so mad, like i dont even know why. I cant tell if its anxiety or adhd that makes me feel that way. Im glad it is a rare thing now. Just wish i could do better. I feel like a failure as an adult.

Since I was kid I was suspected to have ADHD but since I seemed to cope no one ever persued it. Everything went smoothly till middle school and piles of homework. My grades suffered terribly and my mother was at school every morning asking for any work I didn't turn in that week for me to do, the funny thing was no one said anything because I always passed the tests. It's not like I didn't try to do my homework, it's just tgat when I did I always lost it on the way to the school so I just stopped bothering. I barely made it to highschool and I took a placement test and got put into honors for all my core classes. I was actually doing pretty good because this school ran on a block schedule, only 3 classes a day and I didn't have to turn in homework for a class until 2 days later. Then I transferred mid sophmore(10th) year and everything went down hill again, I had all 6 peroids every day each teacher assigning 1-2hrs of homework due the next day, I just shut down whenever I attempted my homework, I barely skimped by on test scores and extra credit, all the while my teachers would say "You could be a straight A student if you would just try/work harder/do your homework" . I graduate get my first fulltime job, move out, did away with my bad coping mechanisms and everything hits the fan, my apartments a mess, I'm barely functioning at work, I got officially diagnosed at the age of 21 with ADHD-combined and more recently in combination with OCD.