wheresmykeys
12-22-04, 01:05 PM
hey everyone
I'm new here, I'll give ya a brief description of myself and my story. I'm 18yrs old and from Canada. I have suspected ADD since I I learned what it was a year or so ago, but I am undiagnosed hoping to fix that soon. I am here because it is nice to be amongst people that are like me, and I am also still trying to figure out if this really is ADD. How many people sound just like my story?
If I look back, I can recognize ADD symptoms from the first grade(at least that is as far back as I can remember anything ADD related) and from then my school life was TURMOIL! I have never been able to concentrate, it literally took me half an hour to do one question(at the grade 3 level, how hard could that be?) I took so long to do everything that I was tested for a learning disorder but they found I was at least as smart as everyone but that I just liked to take my time. It's not like I could help it! Every year at the end of the year/semester I get the same look from every teacher..that look that so obviously is saying they are just itching to ask me if 1)I am just lazy, 2)am actually slow and did not undersatnd, 3)was not interested, or 4)had some crisis in my life that was distracting me from school..but all but a few brave ones were too scared to ask. That look is painful, I tell ya. When you try so hard to actually accomplish something that year, but there is just that same look wondering the cause of your failure at the end again... very ouch. My mother and I have been diagnosing why I have not done well every single year and our reasons were always 1)I wasn't interested, 2)I got sick and missed too much time(happened often), 3)that teacher wasn't fair, 4) I was too stressed(I get very stressed over work, I wonder why!) 5)schools just not my thing and I don't enjoy it and thats all I can remember. SO, since I had not reached my potential through all my elementry and high school years, I was determined to wipe out all these problems and prove my intellegence to the world in college! Through the entire first sememster(which just ended), I was interested, not stressed, I liked my classes, my teachers and they were fair, I didn't find the material hard, I was never sick...NOTHING applied. I was very very confused as to how I could do so badly without any of the reasons, and then it hit me. I'm ADD. As you may have noticed, school was my first reason to realize it, then once I learned more about what ADD, I have discovered many other symptoms in myself. I am forgetful(hence my name, I lose them about 5 times a day), I interrupt, I am extremely disorganized, I am ALWAYS late, I am easily distracted, I can't listen, I can't sit still, I am good at english and reading but have no patience for books and cant follow words that long, I am extroverted but too shy around people at first to make friends easily, I didn't think it affected my friendships, but they say "yeah I can see it"...great. So yeah, does this sound familiar guys?
Nice to meet you all, by the way!
I'm new here, I'll give ya a brief description of myself and my story. I'm 18yrs old and from Canada. I have suspected ADD since I I learned what it was a year or so ago, but I am undiagnosed hoping to fix that soon. I am here because it is nice to be amongst people that are like me, and I am also still trying to figure out if this really is ADD. How many people sound just like my story?
If I look back, I can recognize ADD symptoms from the first grade(at least that is as far back as I can remember anything ADD related) and from then my school life was TURMOIL! I have never been able to concentrate, it literally took me half an hour to do one question(at the grade 3 level, how hard could that be?) I took so long to do everything that I was tested for a learning disorder but they found I was at least as smart as everyone but that I just liked to take my time. It's not like I could help it! Every year at the end of the year/semester I get the same look from every teacher..that look that so obviously is saying they are just itching to ask me if 1)I am just lazy, 2)am actually slow and did not undersatnd, 3)was not interested, or 4)had some crisis in my life that was distracting me from school..but all but a few brave ones were too scared to ask. That look is painful, I tell ya. When you try so hard to actually accomplish something that year, but there is just that same look wondering the cause of your failure at the end again... very ouch. My mother and I have been diagnosing why I have not done well every single year and our reasons were always 1)I wasn't interested, 2)I got sick and missed too much time(happened often), 3)that teacher wasn't fair, 4) I was too stressed(I get very stressed over work, I wonder why!) 5)schools just not my thing and I don't enjoy it and thats all I can remember. SO, since I had not reached my potential through all my elementry and high school years, I was determined to wipe out all these problems and prove my intellegence to the world in college! Through the entire first sememster(which just ended), I was interested, not stressed, I liked my classes, my teachers and they were fair, I didn't find the material hard, I was never sick...NOTHING applied. I was very very confused as to how I could do so badly without any of the reasons, and then it hit me. I'm ADD. As you may have noticed, school was my first reason to realize it, then once I learned more about what ADD, I have discovered many other symptoms in myself. I am forgetful(hence my name, I lose them about 5 times a day), I interrupt, I am extremely disorganized, I am ALWAYS late, I am easily distracted, I can't listen, I can't sit still, I am good at english and reading but have no patience for books and cant follow words that long, I am extroverted but too shy around people at first to make friends easily, I didn't think it affected my friendships, but they say "yeah I can see it"...great. So yeah, does this sound familiar guys?
Nice to meet you all, by the way!