i currently have adhd...im in 7th grade (in AUS)...i was diagnosee in 2005....if anyone outthere has add or adhd...wat problems do u face..
i get realli frustrated easily and call out alot in class...none of my classmates no im adhd so wen i o it they all get angry at me...its tough at skool...it seems none of the teachers understand wat its lyk...i have 6 bro's and sis's each one of them also has adhd or add....so life at home isnt that great...at skool wen ppl get angry at me for doin somethin in class...i dnt thonk they understand wat i live through at home nd at skool...
anyone feels this way aswell...is it normal to be lyk this wen ur adhd or add??
thx guys....and MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Read this article- it shows how you may grow out of this in a few years:
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/science-news/200...
Merry Christmas to you too! I have ADD, which, I cant pay attention in school because Im always thinking about other things.
Im not hyper though, but sometimes I am.
It effects my school work but I try hard to keep up. Oh, Honey. ALL of you need to be on some really good medicine. Otherwise, Life WILL continue to be a mess for you All.
It saddens me to know you ALL endure this every day of your precious Lives...There's more than that to Life, Hon. Speak to ALL of your doctors (You, and them).
鈾犫櫊Dri鈾犫櫊 I think i have ADHD too, therapist never said it confirmed though but i too call out a lot and yell reallly loud at partys when everyone else is talking in a normal tone and can't help it, i too get really frustrated at my friend in halo when i die but i cant seem to stop. It isn't as hard for me at hoem though because i kinda just sit in my room cause i only have 1 sis who's in college so i just play on the computer and grow in size, trying to lose weight now though so maybe it's not ADHD and i jus thave a lot of energy but if it is i know how it feels Merry Christmas as well I had it when I was a kid.
Some doctors told my mom to give me Ritalin or something.
She never did. I guess I'm grateful for that.
Now I have something which I don't remember what's it called (It had adult in the name), but makes it hard for me to focus. Yep. Been there, done that, have a lifetime of things I started and never finished to show for it. The difference is that I didn't know what I was dealing with. Now I do. And so do you.
People will try to sugarcoat this, but the bottom line is that it sucks having ADHD. Ever do something like this: you did your homework, and you put it down on your desk, and say, "I need to put this in my school bag." You'll get up in the morning, and see your homework and say, "I'd better put that in my schoolbag." Then you go to school without putting it in your schoolbag. Or maybe without your schoolbag. Then maybe your teacher is understanding, and says you can turn it in tomorrow. This means you get to do it all over again, only this time your teacher will think you are just a jerk.
What sucks the most about ADHD is that people think you can fix it by trying harder. You can't. The more you try to fix ADHD by trying harder, the worse you do. You've got to change the stuff around you that makes trouble for you, so you can fix your ADHD problems by trying LESS hard.
On the other hand, just because it sucks to have ADHD doesn't mean your life has to suck. Mine hasn't. I've seen and done lots of things that most people haven't, largely because my mind has meandered off onto the road less traveled. Having ADHD is all about being a square peg in a round hole. Things that are incredibly simple for other people are almost impossible for you, and it's not because your dumb. On the other hand, you can be calm and efficient in situations where they'd be frozen with anxiety, because basically, your brain is wired to work best in emergencies and can't quite get into gear in normal situations.
You have to work around the fact that things that "ought" to be easy for you are hard, but remember that when other people's brains stop working is just where yours is hitting its stride.
The good news is that since you're young, chances are your symptoms will get better as you get older. You also have a diagnosis, and that means you can get help. You can't fix ADHD problems by trying harder, but you can try smarter. If you are seeing a specialist, he can help you find ways to get more done with less fuss.
And the meds help. They aren't a cure, but they can help you handle tasks in the normal stress range. Also, if you're having trouble with other kids, they can help you deal with the fact that those kids take so long to get to the point that you can't wait for them any longer.
Most people are annoyingly slow; they repeat themselves without getting to the point; you can usually figure out where they're going by the third world out of their mouth, but they get very annoyed if you cut off their (pointless) rambling. But they don't like it if you jump ahead, and they get really ticked off on those occasions where you're wrong about what they were going to say.
This is a problem that the meds help a great deal. After I started taking them, I realized that I'd spent my entire life trying to hurry people up so they'd finish what they had to say before my mind hopped onto a more interesting track. It's not a recipe for widespread popularity.
Some people feel like they aren't good enough if they have to take medications. I look at it this way. The ideal solution would be for everybody else in the world to change to work around my ADHD. Boring people would get to the point faster. They'd probably put somebody in charge of keeping my schedule and making sure all my papers get put in the right place. Alternatively, I could get a new brain. Since neither is going to happen, I'll live with the meds, which means I can get through the same boring situations as everybody else, not all the time, but enough of the time tomake a difference. |
