You know how you have to really struggle to learn some things, but some come so easily that its almost intuitive? I'm wondering if there are areas of ease and/or difficulty that we share.

For myself, for example, math is challenging, as are mechanical concepts, like how an engine works (my poor car!)

Languages, on the other hand, take almost no effort at all to learn. I have the same experience with nature and the outdoor world.

:) Tinkerbelle :)

You know how you have to really struggle to learn some things, but some come so easily that its almost intuitive? I'm wondering if there are areas of ease and/or difficulty that we share.

For myself, for example, math is challenging, as are mechanical concepts, like how an engine works (my poor car!)

Languages, on the other hand, take almost no effort at all to learn. I have the same experience with nature and the outdoor world.

:) Tinkerbelle :)
Me too! Me too! :D

I read a lot, I can do math, but it really hurts me, and all could get were "C's" in math. I write well. I love nature, particularly gardening, soil, geology, meteorology, astronomy, archeology.

But in some ways I don't feel like my love of reading and books is "normal" in the ADHD world. I am also bipolar II, and so a little different from the average ADHD'er. I'm inattentive ADHD BTW, and have dysthymia (depression), GAD, and PTSD. (just got my dx from neuropsych on Monday). (Posted in the bipolar section).

Thanks, tink! You sound like a fun gal!

Math and Psychology come easy to me. i don't have problems with numbers and I seem to be able to even self-learn psychology.

Spelling is challenging for me...

Math I am pretty quick..never used to be, but when I started in the working world I have gotten tremendously better.

Also, I am a geography buff, I can find my way anywhere.

Reading and writing are a breeze. Housework? Not. Organization is a constant struggle; purse, car, house, you name it. And when I had a career that required self-organization, it was a terrible stressor. Now I'm a nurse, and I can keep systems together for my twelve-hour shift, when someone else has put the systems in place. It's setting up and maintaining a system on my own that tanks me.

Math, I can do fairly well when I want to; I plan to work toward my bachelor's degree and I did the algebra and statistics last year to get them out of the way; algebra I kind of enjoyed; statistics, I was actually throwing up during the break, I was so stressed out. Got A's in both, though. But it did not come naturally; I basically made my whole life revolve around those classes for a while.

Now, I'm having a lot more stress, because my dear Alzheimer's-afflicted Mom has moved in with us, and she rummages. Where you or I might look at a thing and know it has no significance, Mom is picking up every random bit of clutter and saying "Oh, I've been looking for this". She's apparently been looking for my work ID badge, my son's martial arts cup, the message pad near the phone, the dog's chew toy, and on and on... this stres is what made me start on Adderall. Up until now I didn't feel I needed it. Between her rummaging and her constant repeated questions and all the help she needs, besides, my coping systems are crashing.

I'm a good typist. My fingers fly to the keys.

Theater work comes naturally to me. I can put on a show, block, costumes, props, set pieces and character work without blinking. The challenge in it is when I have to run it and multi-task. I know what needs to be done but I can get it out of order. My brain doesn't work that way. And now that I'm older memorizing lines requires a lot more effort than it used to.

But let's not be overly negative about it. I can do theater and I love it.

I absorbed the rules of grammar and spelling for the English language like a sponge, and can pick up smatterings of foriegn langauges yet I do not "get" the grammar, nor can I speak any other language fluently. Psychological concepts tend to come easily to me yet brain chemicals elude me (I refer to a great friend for that stuff ;) ).

Programs/technology used for creating electronic music. I have some sort of natural understanding of them.

Understanding abstract creative things.

Watching TV comes easily for me. :D
I type well too Eyeforgot.
I just picked it up and ran with it.
Really annoys coworkers because I can look at them while typing a memo.
It's like a magic trick. :rolleyes:
Organizing things comes somewhat easy to me.
Once I get my mind set, I can do it.

Science (especially chemistry) come very easily to me, but Philosophy/Psychology are rather difficult. Im not sure if they are truly difficult or I just dont like them so I dont apply myself as hard.

You know how you have to really struggle to learn some things, but some come so easily that its almost intuitive? I'm wondering if there are areas of ease and/or difficulty that we share.

For myself, for example, math is challenging, as are mechanical concepts, like how an engine works (my poor car!)

Languages, on the other hand, take almost no effort at all to learn. I have the same experience with nature and the outdoor world.

:) Tinkerbelle :)
I also suck at knowing about cars and how they run, I always have to ask my dad or a very good friend who knows about what needs to be done.

But one thing that really does come easily to me is figuring out things that other people have missed, and no one can seem to figure it out. I know that it's written somewhere that ADD people don't pay attention to details but I actually am prety good at it. It's as if I have special senses to zoon in on what others don't(it's kind of hard to explain)!

For example, when my sister just moved into her house, she got something to go on her living room door, but in order for it to fit on properly, their had to be a way to fit the slots into the grooves. Nobody could figure this out, but once I looked at the picture I fixed it in no-time. I didn't think it was a big deal, but everyone else was like, "how did you fix that". To be honest I really didn't have an answer but that I could just do it, not really knowing how I got to the right answer.

Yolanda

For myself, for example, math is challenging, as are mechanical concepts, like how an engine works (my poor car!)

Languages, on the other hand, take almost no effort at all to learn. I have the same experience with nature and the outdoor world.

:) Tinkerbelle :)

I struggle with math and languages but understand mechanical very well.

Reading, crafts, driving, finding something to talk about with just about anyone, anything that has to do with using your imagination,cooking, I find easy.

I'm a living,breathing irony:mad:!

I absolutely love any and all things mechanical! I can easily create/envision any number of intricate mechanical devices in my head down to the finest detail,but I am absolutetly horrible at math!:mad::mad::mad: As a child I was always taking everything apart to "see how it works",to the point that it often got me into trouble (I broke the toilet when I was three:D).

From the time I was 16 into my early twenties I was totaly into the local,illegal streetracing scene(total rush:cool:)!I always built my own engines,and they were mean! I think I'm going to cry now,I really miss my 69 Mach 1. :(

I took a personality test awhile back,the results said that if I ever truely wanted to be happy I should persue a career in science or engineering.I was amazed by my results because I love building things and am absolutely fascinated with theoretical physics.

I've been trying to teach myself the higher forms of math (with limited success) and have come up with a theory (for me at least). MATH ITSELF IS NOT HARD,math is however - COMPLETELY MINDNUMBINGLY BORING! I really think this is why I struggle so badly at math.I want to learn it (!),I try to learn it (!),but within a few minutes of studying I'm literally falling asleep! I just can't seem to relate(in my mind) cartesian coordintates with the throw of a piston,or the turning of a gear,or a spinning particle,or whatever.It's all so very frustrating!

I've always done extremely well at reading and writing,and sociology and psychology were the only classes I aced in highschool,BUT I DON"T WANT TO BE A WRITER OR A PSYCHOLOGIST!:mad:

As a child I was always taking everything apart to "see how it works",to the point that it often got me into trouble (I broke the toilet when I was three LOL, I was like that too when I was younger. If my family had a nickel for everything I broke/took apart, they would be as rich as Bill Gates by now :p.

For me, reading and playing musical instruments have always been easy for me. When I was eight years old, my family enrolled me in piano lessons and within a few months I was able to play pieces by ear. I only wish I had stuck with it :(

What comes easy for me?

One word

Trouble.

I can easily be in discord to everyone else, at once.


lol, strife is me, a.k.a. The handful, or A**hole.


i can pick people apart, just like so easily.

Reading, crafts, driving, finding something to talk about with just about anyone, anything that has to do with using your imagination,cooking, I find easy.
yeah, sometimes, lol. i aint into happy go lucky stuff, as it doesn't match reality. lol no offense at all, everyone's reality can be different. I don' care. my reality is prolly more screwed up than urs, actually.

but, I am quite the 'evil corporation' type of guy. i'm the the # one guy who's intelligent, but insane. sometimes I kill the evil corp. sometimes I put the evil in evil corp.

QINdarkness

Art and rendering, taking care of others, empathy, and looking for "the good" in people, situations, and things.

What comes easy for me?

One word

Fun.

fun? what's that?!

f word, is it naughty,
but be illegally,

?

ho
no
yes
yo!

I like this topic -- it makes me feel better to focus on my positives!

English (writing, reading, spelling etc.) is very easy for me, I'm VERY verbal. I learned to read before I was in kindergarten. In fact, I pick up all languages easily -- including programming languages despite my lack of mathematical ability

Typing, knitting, embroidery, weaving, clay -- all fine motor skills come easily. Though I am a klutz in other ways

Art and design -- I'm a natural. So was my dad, who never even picked up a paintbrush until he was 35 and then amazed everyone with his paintings

Music -- I sing, and studied violin for years. Though the daily discipline of practice was my downfall -- I tended to spend hours practicing pieces that I liked, but hated drills and exercises.

History -- I have near-total recall for dates and facts; plus a very vivid imagination which makes long-ago events seem real and exciting to me. Plus I love the research and detective-work of things like genealogy.

Math always bored me and gave me a headache. I had no patience for doing endless problems over and over again, and tended to make careless mistakes. Now, I did still test as above average in math -- but it did NOT come easily as everything else.

I'm terrible at most team sports, especially ones like softball (not enough action -- I forget what I'm supposed to be doing and get hit on the head by the ball); but I was decent at fast-moving ones like soccer and field hockey. I love bicycling, running, hiking, etc -- solitary sports where I don't have to remember which team I'm on or what the rules are.

Spelling and grammar.

Reading and writing. I got in trouble as a child for reading "too much". I'm good with my hands and make beautiful things. I am musical and adore theory.

What comes easily?

Breaking things.

I like logic, though that's an acquired taste, and logic puzzles can be slow going.

Languages -- at least the rudiments, enough to get me in trouble when visiting foreign lands, not enough to be fluent, probably because of all of the patient learning required to expand vocab and learn fancy grammar points. But send me on a mission into the heart of Bolivia with only Spanish 1 under my belt any day.

Computers -- taught myself all I know about windoze and now Linux (which rocks BTW) even some programming.

Arguing about politics.

Saying things I shouldn't have ....:foot:


-g

Reading, Word / Logic puzzles. My brain is very logical. Was good at math until Geometry. I pick up a lot of things quikly like procedures in the office. Very good at looking at a problem and finding the shortest route to the answer.

Good at arguing my point on things. And good at seeing though peoples BS. Maybe because I am good at BSing :D. Can tell what type of person people are after meeting them once or twice.

And of course the easiest thing for me is losing my keys at least twice a day!!

Writing / Poetry ....(grammer, spelling, english overall)

Being empathetic, and "seeing" & hearing what people are really saying and feeling under all the BS.

What comes easily to me?
Procrastination (what I'm doing right now)
Writing (though the organizational part of things can kill me, and I find it almost impossible to get started sometimes)
Languages come fairly easily.
Scientific concepts, math concepts to some extent (though anything that involves visualization or holding lots of information online is a no-go. . . my brain crashes easily with its pitifully low RAM) . . .

Oh, and I totally relate to what others have said.

MATH ITSELF IS NOT HARD,math is however - COMPLETELY MINDNUMBINGLY BORING! I really think this is why I struggle so badly at math.I want to learn it (!),I try to learn it (!),but within a few minutes of studying I'm literally falling asleep!

The only reason why I loved calculus in high school is because it seemed to actually have real-world application . . . I was taking physics at the same time (non-calc physics, but still I could see how the two disciplines were interrelated). . . that said I've been meaning to try to teach myself linear algebra for work, and what applied in high school still applies now: I can't read a math text book if my life depended on it!

I am also really good at breaking things. . . did probably over $5000 worth of damage in one day at work once. . . by stopping myself from falling by catching myself with an expensive piece of equipment as I was trying to put it on a shelf, then following that stunt up by following the instructions of a guy over the phone while trying to repair another piece of equipment, then realizing I didn't have the correct screwdriver to do the job (lots of little screws floating around inside a sensitive piece of equipment does not make it run better!).

Stacks and more stacks of papers.

Subject wise, I excelled in Math and Science. Geometry was easy for me. I flopped in language the like.

I also excell in procrastination:eek:

Being a parent...I think
Driving...I guess
Gardening...I suppose
selling ice to eskimoes (where's the spell check!)...maybe
Ambivalence...sort of.....

Creative thinking/concepting, but it's hard for me to get it down on paper or to realize it fully, cryptoquotes and other word scramble-like things, nerdy computer stuff comes easy to me too.

oh, and yes, much like the others, breaking and losing things haunts my daily life.

i suck at math big time, ever since fractions in the fourth grade. i am really into history and have read lots of books and such, but i can never remember enough about it to discuss it.

I like this thread, so positive!

Music comes pretty easily to me; I can play a decent flute and love trying to teach myself new instruments.

I have a good memory for people and names. Sometimes I'll surprise my family by mentioning the name of someone whom I only met once when I was little, or I'll freak people out when I run into them in public and am all, "OMG, you're Susie! I'm berryblast, remember, we were in that one-week middle school drama camp together?!" And the person will clearly not remember me. So, maybe it can be a slightly embarrassing strength...

I'm pretty good with kids... maybe because their attention span is similar to mine!

People often say that I'm very easy to talk to. They're comfortable coming to me with problems or sensitive subjects, and supposedly I have a talent for making sense of what people vent to me about and framing it in a way that makes them think about it differently. I want to become a therapist eventually, so this is definitely a good thing.

And, one that I guess is kind of unusual for an ADDer, I have nice handwriting.

Things that I'm not good at:

Math. I THINK about it too much- I can't just accept that this is the way it is and this is how you do it, I want to know WHY, and HOW COME, and WHAT IF. Or if something doesn't make logical sense to me, I can't just let it go and accept the formula anyway, I get all uncomfortable because I don't feel like it works, and I run myself into a hole in the ground and hate it.

Keeping my room clean. I hate living in disorganization and feel much better when my room is nice, but when I clean it, it seems like the very next day it's trashed again.

Keeping in touch with people. I always forget to write thank you notes and then feel terrible about it, or I'll forget to return emails, and I'll probably forget to come back and visit this forum for another couple of weeks.

I have an absolutely TERRIBLE sense of direction. I hate maps, and even if I've been to a place many times as a passenger, I' wouldn't be able to drive it without directions. My friend and I study at a Barnes and Noble nearby, and she always drives, and last weekend she couldn't go, she said I could go without her, but I didn't because I didn't know how to get there!

Watching movies! I lose interest halfway through and start to drift into other thoughts. I like TV a lot better because it's shorter, and broken up by commercials. Usually when I go to the movie theater, I either fall asleep or daydream the whole time.

Related: Do any of you have things that don't come easily, but that you can be good at if you really really put a lot into it? That's how drawing is for me. It takes me FOREVER and I wouldn't call anything about it "easy," but in the end, I can be decent if I really stick to it. That's almost more rewarding to me than the things that come easily.

To add to my sisters' post..which I think run's in the family...Trouble..is pretty easy for me too!


Something really comes easy for me....

Impatience!

my daughter used to get exasperated with me when we watched a dvd because i would read a paper or magazine at the same time and then keep saying to her whats happening? And yep, trouble is near the top of the list..I seem to have this unproductive means of ending things. Instead of making a decision or being pro-active I have tended to let problems drift to the stage where a decision is forced upon me. Minor example: I have a bank account that I don't need. Instead of closing it I wait until it gets overdrawn with bank fees and the back closes it..it might cost me a few dollars but it saves me a trip to the bank, standing in a queue and stuffing around with paperwork..

Logic, I don't have any troubles
Outlaying database structures in my mind, coming up with new ways of taking care of problems, anything with a computer.

Reading people, not a problem. Even as a kid, I use to sit in a mall [in the days before cell phones] while waiting for my parents just looking at people. I could tell you their whole life story by watching how they walk, talk, how they dress, little subtle movements and signs.

Patterns, not a problem.
My checkbook has a picture of a computer with hex code in the screen. I use to do computer forensics where I would look at a hard drive in hex, looking for patterns. My daughter does this as well [obviously not with hex!]

Abstract thought, problems
Find out out where X is if X is a made up number that moves with each task - or a guess of what is going on. No discernable logic, told not to think about it, just do it doesn't get me very far.

I'm a good typist. My fingers fly to the keys.

Theater work comes naturally to me. I can put on a show, block, costumes, props, set pieces and character work without blinking. The challenge in it is when I have to run it and multi-task. I know what needs to be done but I can get it out of order. My brain doesn't work that way. And now that I'm older memorizing lines requires a lot more effort than it used to.

But let's not be overly negative about it. I can do theater and I love it.
I love doing community theater, I am so amazed at how I thrive on it. If I could slplit myself in two, one would do just that always. It's the ability to create an image (charactor) that is an illusion but is very believeable.

Things that come easily for me:

Daydreaming - I ace at it. ;)

I'm good at... well I'm not good at getting out my thougts on paper (or orally), I'm stuck now -- yet I'm good at writing.

Languages,
spelling,
history and similar subjects.
I have a very good sense of direction.

I have a very good memory for some things, terrible for others. I'm the one my family asks if they want to know what year we went on vaction to this and that place, but if I get a thought like "Oh, I left my towel on the bed I need to hang it up." it only takes a second and I forget. Then I might remember after a short while, but I do a lot of walking back and forth, seeing things that triggers my memory thinking "Oh, yes. I'll just put this in my hand away" and then it's gone.

I'm good at listening,
with children,
I can easily imagine what's it like to be in someone else's situation,
empathy.

I'm good at playing with the dog,
cooking,
reading,
dancing,
going for walks and discover things and forget about the time, but getting out of the house in the first place is not easy.

Nothing that really matters comes easy to me but everyone tells me I have really creative party planning ideas, themes etc. I am the person all my friends come to when they need party favors or gift bags or help with school festivals/special events. I love to plan and throw children's parties. I go all out for my son on his birthday. I can't plan what I'm having for dinner or even a vacation but I can plan a party. Strange, huh?

What comes easy for me?

One word

Fun.


Well this comes easy for me as well but often it lands me in trouble. Some people simply do not have a sense of humor.




I love to plan and throw children's parties. I go all out for my son on his birthday. I can't plan what I'm having for dinner or even a vacation but I can plan a party. Strange, huh?

Not really my partner can plan trips around trips, work projects and cycles of the moon but he can’t plan a trip to the Wal-Mart.


Something really comes easy for me....

Impatience!

Yes impatience is another family trait.

I can waste my time but I get really annoyed when other people waste my time – now that is an oxymoron of life is it not.?


Seeing things differently is easy for me also I do not even have to try to do that. Every question seems to have more than one answer which naturally leads me to more questions.



Nothing that really matters comes easy to me

I wonder if the reason things that come easy for you only seem like they do not matter is because they are easy for you. If they were hard then it would seem like they mattered.

An example

I love to plan and throw children's parties. I go all out for my son on his birthday. I can't plan what I'm having for dinner or even a vacation but I can plan a party.

I couldn’t plan a party if some one had a gun to my head and yes it does matter. I used to pay through the nose because I could not plan children’s parties therefore I had to pay others to do it for me. I would have a better social life if I could plan parties. You can make money planning parties I know because I paid other people to do it for me and it was not cheap! See it is all in the perspective which is what comes so naturally for me now if I could make money doing that I would be richer. . . .not that I would know what to do with money but I would have more of it.

Speaking of money I need to be better at doing what it is I am supposed to be doing because doing things other than what I should be doing comes way toooooo easy for me. . . . which is why I am here instead of working like I should be. :o

A lot of things used to come easily to me but I seem to have no interest in anything at all lately, depression maybe? I used to learn everything so easily, math, spelling, cleaning, anything I wanted to do. Psychology came real easily for me last semester, I think bc thats when I was trying to figure out what was really wrong with me. Plus I had a really good interesting teacher. I know when I find the right meds I will be my normal, smart, ambitious self again. I'm just not sure why I changed in the first place....

learning how to knit, sing, play guitar, photography, anything musical or artsy. The only problem is that after a while I just stop doing them I just slam on the brakes for some reason, strange and depressing sometimes :(

i'm not so great at sciences like chemistry or physics (which is ironic since I got a bachelor of science), but i'm decent at putting together editing projects on the computer & the typing thing also. working w/animals comes pretty easily to me. oh, & procrastination. i'm really good at that.

Today..what comes easy..is aggravation, hyperfocus...


...and INSOMNIA!!!! AARGH

I am good at
READING
SPELLING
LOGICAL THINKING
COLOUR
HAIRCUTTING LOL

I am GREAT in an emergency..
the more gore, blood and guts the better..I go into super
calm fab, in control mode :-)

I am crap at facts..trivia...general knowledge..typing LOL

What's hard for me..... MATH! I totally suck at it, never could remember what formula I was supposed to use for what type of problem!

Remembering dates are hard, Dealing with my Emotions (I also have BPD) so I tend to be All or Nothing type thinking.

What comes easily.
English (however sometimes I struggle just speaking it correctly) LOL!
Reading as long as it's something that interests me, otherwise forget it!
Science, Philosophy, Religion, Debating
Having Empathy and being able to help someone else feel better even when I'm hurting bad myself.
Multi-Tasking and being my Best under pressure.
Being very intuitive, reading other people and how they are, what they like etc.. which helps tremendously at the next thing..
Creative thinking and Design. I run my own Graphic/Web Design business. I'm totally self taught.

easily,
diversions from what should be done,
i easily find and do with my soul..

hardy,
to do what needs to be done,
repeatedly and to my dismay.


all I've got, really

qk

Tracy, you stink at what we laugh about at work....FACTS.
We usually say "facts, who needs those?" :D
I'm with the local gov't, so don't worry, it's not going to affect you unless you move to where I live.
It's more or less a joke at work.
We have so many people that come in without facts (that we need to know to make a decision) that it's just become a joke.
Butch, I suggest you change careers.
Become a lion tamer.
I think you could do it.
As long as the lions are those things with really long snouts that eat ants.
(If you aren't into python, this comment just went way over your head) :D

I am good at
READING
SPELLING
LOGICAL THINKING
COLOUR
HAIRCUTTING LOL


Traci you are good at all the things I am not - sounds like a match made in heaven. . . . I will do your math if you will do my spelling. I have hair to my waist because I have procrastinate getting it cut for so long. My daughter became better at me at cutting hair by the time she was 8. . . . I think she did this as an adaptation to prevent me from cutting her hair when we were to broke to pay any one to do it for me. . . .she even cuts mine if I remember to ask her when I visit and only of she can find her scissors. . . . both occurring in one three day visit is a rare occurrence

learning how to knit, sing, play guitar, photography, anything musical or artsy. The only problem is that after a while I just stop doing them I just slam on the brakes for some reason, strange and depressing sometimes :(
Yep, me too.

I am good at empathy, enthusiasm, grammar (completely intuitive, don't ask me any grammar words), writing organized papers (at least that's what the teacher comments said, I never tried to organize them), intuition generally, enunciation, articulation, laughing, being serious, listening to an interesting story (if medicated), helping out however I can, spontaneity (impulsiveness' good twin), admitting fault, getting important people to like me (not all the time though), bringing the FUN at parties, and taking exams (for the amount I study, I always, out of necessity, perform disproportionately well), and performing under pressure.

wow, this is a nice thread. once in a while it's nice to think about what we might actually be good at. thanks.

It seems to me that many, many of us are very good at making others feel good about themselves, by being supportive and caring and receptive. I think this forum ROCKS.

As I found out today...another thing that comes easy...in fact I have mastered it...


PROCRASTINATION.....:faint:

Well Hope you stole my thought but it wasnt Procastination ... it was




Sleep.......

Sleep I can get!
Procrastination though, that's a hard one.
I have it all day everyday, but I push myself to do things.
Wash dishes, mow the grass, wash clothes, etc.
I have to make up my mind to do it, no matter how interesting tv is, or surfing the net, or whatever.
I wrestle with this at work too, and I just have to do whatever it is.
Talk about a sinking feeling though, I sure get it when I make myself do something.
If I didn't, I'd have no clothes, no clean dishes, a dirty house, a grown up yard, and no job. :D

Well I am ADHD and NVLD, and here is what I am like:

Language is my forte. I'm a writer, and an excellent editor/proofreader. Grammar and spelling, no problem. I'm good at research if it's something that interests me. I have a fantastic EAR for foreign languages (have been told by native speakers that my French pronunciation is outstanding) but I'm not as good at reading a foreign language. I'm great with colors and patterns, have worked as a graphic designer. I'm musical. Great memory for useless trivia.

I'm terrible at math. Highest level math I ever got to was pre-algebra. Anything mechanical is a mystery. I took a couple of filmmaking classes in grad school, and could never deal with setting up and loading the cameras, transferring the film, any of the hands-on mechanical stuff, but I LOVE video editing in Final Cut Pro. I could do it all day. Good at intuitive computer stuff, hopeless at coding, html, anything like that. I can be socially pretty inept, but have gotten better over the years. I suck at sales, ***-kissing, schmoozing, and networking. :) I was a lousy waitress, thank god I'll never have to do that again (fingers crossed)...

i really like history which i was really good at....

i likes biology and maths but could never apply myself. i think i need to learn science through talking not just reading from a textbook.

TEXTBOOKS SUCK...it was the worst invention. so boring for ADD ppl (well for me anway lol)

creative writing is really easy for me...cause i'm a daydreamer ADDer so i dream all the time lol :P

Math actually wasn't that hard for me. i like consistency which math has as long as you learn the rules. I am good at English and spelling and psychology too, anything that really catches my attention. I feel like I am so ADD now that I would'n't be good at anything though. Kind of scary.

Musical ability. I can pick up complex melodies and replicate them perfectly straight away. I put it down to mechanical memory, but I expect there's some kind of audiological memory in use there as well. And I'm creative, so can improvise, in any style I want to. It doesn't require thought and I do it best when I switch my brain off and think of something else entirely. Shame it doesn't have a useful application for my working life at the moment.

Me too! Me too! :D

I read a lot, I can do math, but it really hurts me, and all could get were "C's" in math. I write well. I love nature, particularly gardening, soil, geology, meteorology, astronomy, archeology.

But in some ways I don't feel like my love of reading and books is "normal" in the ADHD world.
Thanks, tink! You sound like a fun gal!
i share almost all said intrests and i didnt kno that reading alot wasnt normal with adhd? i made a mistake in taking my evening dose at one time and read battlefield earth(1000+ pages) with out mooving:D at allthat night. hehe

Not good at math but Man, History....loved it. Anything that has to to with working with my hands I'm good at. Drawing, woodworking... Very musically inclined.

I can be a sponge to information I find interesting. I pick up on information fast when I'm engulfed in the subject.

I'm also very good at losing my car keys 10 seconds after setting them down!:faint:

What am I good at today inconsistency?

and :foot:

Guess inconsistency can be a good thing some times

being empathic seems to come natural to me. somehow i can sence what some are feeling and it really affects me on many levels. also i can write. i can do a verse or story in a very short time. but what is strange is i have the hardest time spelling. go figure. i can also think up someting creative for a group to do in a real short time.

now some of the things i cant do, mechanical things. staying organized. home repair.

I'm visual, musical, and linguistic. However, I'm a quick study - good for simple things, not so good for more complex stuff, because once I have the gist of it, I want to dive right in and start DOING before I know all the information. So. . .I'm good with grammar, spelling, and foreign language, know lots of words but couldn't give you dictionary definitions for them, can understand a lot of Germanic and Romance languages but would be stuck in beginnner mode when trying to speak them. I play piano and guitar, but never became an expert because of the repetitive practice. . .however, I can sing, and I'm really good at harmony, because I can hear it well and practice it in little bits pretty much anywhere, any time. I sew, and now I'm making beaded jewelry and polymer clay adornments, and all of these adapt well to improvisation. I make mistakes, but I not only learn from them (better than I would just being told how to do it correctly in the first place) but I also develop skills and techniques from trying to figure out how to work around the mistakes or make something different from whatever went wrong.

And whatever I figure out how to do right, I'm excellent at teaching it to others. Because I've had to work out the mechanics of how it worked right and what happened when I did it wrong, and also had to connect it to other things so the memory will stick, I can explain how to do things in a number of different ways to different types of learners, and give them their own mnemonics as well.

I wouldn't do any of these things nearly as well if I weren't ADD.