shmoe727
10-03-06, 06:16 PM
hello everyone i'm new here and i wonder if any of you have had a similar experience.
my boyfriend blake and i have been together for 3 years. he was diagnosed with ADD when he was a child and he hasn't seen a doctor or anything about it in a long time so it's unsure if he still has it or even if he could have been mis diagnosed. His brother was diagnosed as well at a young age and is stil on medication at 23. Blake is 21 and i have noticed that some of the things ADD ers are said to have he doesn't. like he isn't really creative at all. he's mostly interested only in gears and cars and computers and facts rather than ideas. he deffinitely thinks on a more concrete level. and he isn't a social butterfly and he isn't out going. so when they say that it's helpful to remeber the good qualities of the ADDer like how creative they are etc it really doesnt help me at all and it's very frustrating. not that he doesn't have good qualities but still. i am not sure if he really has ADD though so that might explain it. but he has most of the other symptoms like he can't remember things and he has a hard time keeping focused and he has trouble organizing and keeping track of his finances. i also looked up LD and he could have that but he doesn't really have a hard time learning as long as he is interested. he has an incredible capacity to learn things about cars and gears and physics stuff but languages and music he struggles with, and he doesn't really have any enthusiasm toward learning it even though he likes music and he knows that he needs to improve his english skills if he wants to succeed. i can understand that he is more inclined to physical sort of things and so he's more interested in learning about them but it's SO extreme and he seems to only have a problem learning about certain subjects while in others he excels. if anyone has any insight on this sort of thing please share it because so far it seems that no one has quite the same problem as we do for some reason. thank you very much.
my boyfriend blake and i have been together for 3 years. he was diagnosed with ADD when he was a child and he hasn't seen a doctor or anything about it in a long time so it's unsure if he still has it or even if he could have been mis diagnosed. His brother was diagnosed as well at a young age and is stil on medication at 23. Blake is 21 and i have noticed that some of the things ADD ers are said to have he doesn't. like he isn't really creative at all. he's mostly interested only in gears and cars and computers and facts rather than ideas. he deffinitely thinks on a more concrete level. and he isn't a social butterfly and he isn't out going. so when they say that it's helpful to remeber the good qualities of the ADDer like how creative they are etc it really doesnt help me at all and it's very frustrating. not that he doesn't have good qualities but still. i am not sure if he really has ADD though so that might explain it. but he has most of the other symptoms like he can't remember things and he has a hard time keeping focused and he has trouble organizing and keeping track of his finances. i also looked up LD and he could have that but he doesn't really have a hard time learning as long as he is interested. he has an incredible capacity to learn things about cars and gears and physics stuff but languages and music he struggles with, and he doesn't really have any enthusiasm toward learning it even though he likes music and he knows that he needs to improve his english skills if he wants to succeed. i can understand that he is more inclined to physical sort of things and so he's more interested in learning about them but it's SO extreme and he seems to only have a problem learning about certain subjects while in others he excels. if anyone has any insight on this sort of thing please share it because so far it seems that no one has quite the same problem as we do for some reason. thank you very much.