Did any of you as a child find that you had a mixture of both inattentiveness and hyperactivity. With my ADD I always found that my mind was somewhere else in class instead of listening to the teacher no matter how I tried and also there were other times where I would quite often get told off for talking to others in class while the teacher is talking.

Till this day I still have this problem and me training to be a personal trainer I go great with teaching aerobics after aerobics because of my high energy. DOes anyone else have this problem. Also is it common for people with ADD to get bored very easily, I cant even sit down and watch TV for long.

Roxy.

Did any of you as a child find that you had a mixture of both inattentiveness and hyperactivity. With my ADD I always found that my mind was somewhere else in class instead of listening to the teacher no matter how I tried and also there were other times where I would quite often get told off for talking to others in class while the teacher is talking.

Till this day I still have this problem and me training to be a personal trainer I go great with teaching aerobics after aerobics because of my high energy. DOes anyone else have this problem. Also is it common for people with ADD to get bored very easily, I cant even sit down and watch TV for long.

Roxy.:D yes...sounds perfectly normal to me :p ( if you have ADHD that is LOL..which I guess you do, or you wouldn't be here)..:faint:

Did any of you as a child find that you had a mixture of both inattentiveness and hyperactivity. With my ADD I always found that my mind was somewhere else in class instead of listening to the teacher no matter how I tried and also there were other times where I would quite often get told off for talking to others in class while the teacher is talking.
Yep that was me....the day dreamer...and when the static got to be too much...I either slept...hyperfocused on something I really liked. When it got really bad...I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off! Normal !


Till this day I still have this problem and me training to be a personal trainer I go great with teaching aerobics after aerobics because of my high energy. DOes anyone else have this problem. Also is it common for people with ADD to get bored very easily, I cant even sit down and watch TV for long.
My sister sums the whole ADD explanation...in one sentence...

And I quote "I see ADD as being boredom aversion"

Yep...hate boredom..wheather we are hyper on the inside or out!

Welcome by the way...You will find a lot of people here...who know exactly how you feel. And you will probably find how you feel is pretty normal for us!

Thanks for your replies everyone

That's me to a T. Hyper and chatty, yet spaced out and "not there".

Kind of a wierd combination, because if you think about it, the two ought not be able to coexist! Oh well:cool:

OOOoh.. I like that phrase Justhope; hyperactive inside or out, because it's so true! I never quite got how falling asleep on the bus and after reading something could make me 'hyperactive.' But as you elude to, inside in my mind I am all over the place! I jump from topic to topic, think about other stuff while listening to someone.. oh and I wander from store to store whenever I go shopping. Which is why I kind of hate to shop with other people. *lol*

I never used to pay any attention at school and was always daydreaming. Now that i'm an adult i've often blamed myself for being like that since i could have done a lot better at school if i paid attention. I knew at school that i was bored so would just zone out all the time...and i used to think that i kind of "trained" myself to do that since i was just soooo bored and could do the work without the reacher having to explain it. It is only recently that i've come to realise i zoned out since i couldn't stand being bored and that it is part of the ADD not just me being difficult or contrary or ruining my life on purpose! But a part of me still thinks that some of my problems are learned...

I have yet to be 'diagnosed,' yet find I can relate. I always felt that what was being taught did not directly relate to me, so I was always zoning out. I find that happens at work, especially in meetings. I have found myself thinking, "What the heck am I doing here?" and have actually struggled to stay in my seat. I have also left agency wide employee meetings or observances because I do not see what my purpose is there. I question why other people stay. I am thinking now, that is the professional thing to do? In school. I just found I got side tracked by the stimuli around me. I now will sit in the front row seat so that the instructor is in my focal point.

Did any of you as a child find that you had a mixture of both inattentiveness and hyperactivity. With my ADD I always found that my mind was somewhere else in class instead of listening to the teacher no matter how I tried........Also is it common for people with ADD to get bored very easily, I cant even sit down and watch TV for long.
Yes, yes and yes. You sound perfectly normal to me! :)

I find meetings very difficult since i think that people talk way too much and should just get to the point a lot quicker. Can't they see that most of what they say is nonsense and just designed to impress other people??!
I'm like that as well....i've actually walked out of meetings (with some sort of excuse usually) where i feel i have no need to attend and am forced into it. Otherwise it is too painful to sit there and it will end up spoiling my whole day since i get so annoyed by it!

I hate lectures too in class, I just dont take anything in as I find myself thinking about something else that is going on in my life or I just have to move around such as go outside for a walk around like the loo or to fill up my drink bottle. It is driving me nuts, I have no idea how im going to pass my exams if this continues.

I find meetings very difficult since i think that people talk way too much and should just get to the point a lot quicker. Can't they see that most of what they say is nonsense and just designed to impress other people??!
I'm like that as well....i've actually walked out of meetings (with some sort of excuse usually) where i feel i have no need to attend and am forced into it. Otherwise it is too painful to sit there and it will end up spoiling my whole day since i get so annoyed by it!I am fine in meetings with the people I work with; in fact, we meet daily and enjoy it. But I don't do most other meetings well at all unless there is a heavy handed moderator to move things along. It's not that I mind "long winded" people if they are interesting. I don't suffer fools or self-centered people easily and have served on boards with the condition that I didn't have to regularly attend meetings.

I can remeber in high school at the beginning of each quater I would be sooooo motivated. This was going to be the quater I would get all A's. I had my books, pens, notebooks, folders, you name it. Most importantly, I was going to pay attention. How hard could it be ? I just needed self discipline. Everyone else could do it and take perfect notes. So, there I'd be in class, listening very intently to the teacher. Then all of a sudden I would get the sensation of "coming back". I wouldn't know what I had been thinking about or for how long I was "zoning". Just that now the teacher was talking about something totally different now and I was lost. I'd manage to catch up, but it would happen repeatedly until finally I was hopelessly lost. I couldn't figure out why I always did that. Now I know I just couldn't help it. Eventually, I'd end up skipping my classes. I had no idea what was going on in class and it was way too hard for me to sit there for 45 minutes at a desk. Somehow i always managed to pull of passing grades, even if barely. I guess that's the creative part of adhd!~

Yep thats me.

In school the constant daydreamer, and, doodler. If I wasnt next to a window (which I always tried to sit next to) I would be lost in my paper, drawing picture after picture or writing poems, or stories.

Out of school.. I was extremely hyper with my friends, always acting impulsively, screaming, jumping, laughing, and acting stupid. :p

Stared out the window and/or doodled. Do anything I can now to avoid meetings.
Am struggling to not treat my loved ones lately like I'm bored with their droning on and on... but of course, I am, so it's realllllllly hard to bring myself to focus on the POINT, which is, that I love them and their feelings matter to me, and listening to them is what is required; the content may not be critical but their feelings about it are. But I'm spread thin esp lately and it's hard. I was doing better for a while and now it's harder again.