Hey Everyone

I'm new here! It's nice to be amongst a of group who seem to have the same trouble as me.

I am 18 years old and have only recently learned about ADD. Since I first started finding out what ADD is I have recognized just about everything I have heard or read in myself. I am pretty sure I have ADD, but am to scared to announce it to anyone until I have the opinions of other ADDers or if I can relate to someone with ADD I have actually talked to. So, if you wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate it if some of you could just tell me these things:
1)what was it like concentrating through school from elementary to college? Did you ever get asked by teachers or get the feeling they were wondering if you were either too lazy, weren't interested, were not very bright, or had other issues in life that were taking away from school work?
2)how often do you forget things like your keys(hence my name)?
3)Did you feel different from others as you were growing up and did they think you were "different"?
4)Can you EVER be on time for ANYTHING?!
5)Does it feel like your mind is constantly moving even if you have no idea what it is thinking about, its more like being in a fog
6)How messy is your room?
7)Do you run into door frames and interrupt in the middle of conversations often?

I have millions more questions, but I will leave it at that. Thanks for your help!

1)what was it like concentrating through school from elementary to college? Did you ever get asked by teachers or get the feeling they were wondering if you were either too lazy, weren't interested, were not very bright, or had other issues in life that were taking away from school work?
Never could pay attention no matter how hard I tried. Usually scored in the 95th+ percentile on the scholastic achievement tests but flunked my classes.
2)how often do you forget things like your keys(hence my name)?
Keys? Ummm....gee, I just had them a moment ago??????
3)Did you feel different from others as you were growing up and did they think you were "different"?
Very different--and they noticed. (You do know who they are, don't you?)
4)Can you EVER be on time for ANYTHING?!
I'm an ecxeption here. I have excellent sense of time in terms of hours and minutes, but no concept of months and years.
5)Does it feel like your mind is constantly moving even if you have no idea what it is thinking about, its more like being in a fog
Yep. Prozac helps me a lot with this.
6)How messy is your room?
Clean, but I had to learn how.
7)Do you run into door frames and interrupt in the middle of conversations often?
No comment. ;)

I was diagnosed at 21 years . . . inattentive ADD. Almost everything you've asked is very familiar to me!

1)what was it like concentrating through school from elementary to college? Did you ever get asked by teachers or get the feeling they were wondering if you were either too lazy, weren't interested, were not very bright, or had other issues in life that were taking away from school work?
Grade school, junior high were cake. high school was pretty hard for me, I struggled through some classes. College was HORRID!! I fell asleep in classes I loved, I couldn't concentrate worth anything! To top it off, I had classes in the "fish bowl" rooms - one side of the rooms were glass (floor to ceiling). My neck was sore from all the turning :)
2)how often do you forget things like your keys(hence my name)?
Constantly!! I have to put things in their location (especially keys!) or I'm up a creek.
3)Did you feel different from others as you were growing up and did they think you were "different"?
Very much so, but didn't know why. I don't think my friends found me different though, with exception of constant fidgeting. I was really good at hiding that I was spacing out on conversations.
4)Can you EVER be on time for ANYTHING?!
I used to be late (5-10 min) for everything. This is something I've really worked on, and am rarely late for important things (ie: work)
5)Does it feel like your mind is constantly moving even if you have no idea what it is thinking about, its more like being in a fog
COnstantly moving, yes. That's why I have insomnia. Fog, no.
6)How messy is your room?
it's never, ever clean. Everytime I clean I vow it will stay decent. LOL.
I don't vow anymore.
7)Do you run into door frames and interrupt in the middle of conversations often?
Run into door frames? nope, can't say that I do. But, I am notorious at interrupting. Mostly, when I walk into a room and don't stop to notice people are already talking.

Haha we are almost all the same! Awsome.

1)what was it like concentrating through school from elementary to college? Did you ever get asked by teachers or get the feeling they were wondering if you were either too lazy, weren't interested, were not very bright, or had other issues in life that were taking away from school work?
I was branded an overacheiver from the age of 6, I used studying as an excuse to ceed out of any kind of unpleasent social situation
2)how often do you forget things like your keys(hence my name)?
Stupid, frustrated, angry. If it gets too bad, mood suppresents help :)
3)Did you feel different from others as you were growing up and did they think you were "different"?
Yup, absolutely. I was apathetically accepted by some, layed into by others. Theres only three people i've really felt close to, although that changed with time.
4)Can you EVER be on time for ANYTHING?!
If i make a real effort to be early, i can just about manage being on time. But then I feel like i'm wasting time ;)
5)Does it feel like your mind is constantly moving even if you have no idea what it is thinking about, its more like being in a fog
Theres always something flying around in my head, usually it's the things I desperately trying to keep out of there, or some introvert psuedo-existentialist musing. But really, I can loose hours to these sort of things, and have no memory of it afterwards :S
6)How messy is your room?
Not too bad, everythings sorted into piles now. Tiding for me consists of replacing a mess with a mess filled box.
7)Do you run into door frames and interrupt in the middle of conversations often?
Always, the door frame thing i'm particually bad at, and don't even start on verbal conversations.... :P