Sustained attention - I almost passed the one test where you have to hit the spacebar when letters that aren't X come up. The results were inconclusive, which apparently isn't the case for most ADDers. I was however at the upper age limit, and those who play video games usually have good acquired coping skills to deal with things like that.

Hyperactivity - When I have to sit still for long periods of time, I keep squirming around waiting to get up and move. Sometimes though, I'll get into deep daydreams in which I am not really asleep but my short term memory will be totally shut down. I feel more comfortable standing up for long periods of time than sitting down. Sometimes, I'll look for a mindless task to do when I have to sit. The result is never anything productive.

School - I can't motivate myself at all for it, but I am always able to throw together a decent project at the deadline and near ace almost every test without studying. Everyone thinks I'm smart until they read my writing, which is atrocious. Apparently it is sometimes off topic and lacks detail and organization. Well, when I'm writing a story, I write really awesome first paragraphs before they become a mess. Even though I may have problems with attention, I'm more of a holistic/global thinker, so I can put together a decent "big picture" out of the facts I do pick up. I hate reading because books are too long and it's hard to skip over stuff. I often get involved in the stories though when I do read them...

Coordination - Apparently not bad according to tests (both fine and gross), but for some reason I always feel very uncoordinated and horrible when it comes to sports. Maybe this is because I never play them outside of school. I am progressively getting worse relative to my age group, and it could just be the "if you don't use it, you lose it". I love physical activity and am always restless, but I don't have any real great friends and am too afraid of failure, so team sports are kind of out of the question.

Perfectionism/OCD - It really isn't much of an issue now, but I used to be a perfectionist about things, often those tangent to the task at hand. I went through a short phase of wanting to collect things. I still have trouble with discarding objects or WASTING THINGS (big one), but that's about it.

Boredom/interests - I'm always bored, but feel locked up from doing other stuff by my parents. I spend most of my time on the internet, usually in chat rooms and message boards. I occasionally play a multiplayer game, but only the kind that have quick games (under 30 minutes). I keep flipping between things, such as this forum, but nothing interests me. When I was a little kid, I used to have a few strange interests that lasted a while but went as quickly as they came :p

Directions - I heard something about ADHD and directions, and I can say that I don't like to read directions, but also am anxious about getting things wrong, which makes me usually skim over them, but I still would rather not read them. I guess too that I like figuring out how to do things myself and think that directions are for the weak. You never get smarter by following things word by word.

Social anxiety/low self esteem - I'll always talk when spoken to, but I usually lack the courage to start a conversation. I hate talking about myself and never tell anyone what I do because it really is nothing. Sometimes I make up stuff about myself though. I have trouble speaking loudly due to social anxiety. I also have no deficits in social skills as one with an ASD will, but my social anxiety is very debiliating. I am less anxious around strangers than around people I know and hate being noticed by people I know when in public. I have a hard time asking anyone for anything, and with the way I am now, I don't think I'll ever have a girlfriend.

Depression - I never was too depressed in my life until about 3 years ago. I started crying and feeling hopeless about myself and everything, and these feelings kept going on for about 3 months and during summer, which really sucked. Ever since that, I really haven't been the same and some of my energy seems gone because of it.

Irrational thoughts - I've always forced myself to use logic over superstition, but instinctively I am very superstitious and my thoughts don't have boundaries. I don't know how everyone else is with this, but maybe they are the same as me because from the outside I am extremely logical and realistic.

Defiant - I get thrills out of being defiant to authority and so I've done it a lot impulsively and it has done nothing good for me, but I am so happy when doing so. I also feel I have gained skills at spontaneously arguing with figures of authority although not when in front of other people... On the internet, I sometimes seek thrill by "trolling". I often create multiple accounts with multiple personalities and have learned everything there is about getting around bans. One time I spent 2 weeks (well in short blocks of time, sometimes skipping days) figuring how to do something that extremely ****ed off a community I didn't care for to much. The thrill factor kept me motivated in doing it and gave me an abnormally long attention span. If you have any problems anywhere, I guarantee you I can get you out. And administrators, I'll just warn you I'm not the greatest guy to ban.

Diagnosises that I've gotten: ADHD-combined, ODD, general anxiety, social anxiety/avoidant personality disorder, gifted (a diagnosis, I don't think so?)
Here's things that haven't been ruled out: bipolar disorder, mild OCD, schizotypal personality disorder
Things that have sort of been ruled out: ADHD-other kinds, all ASD/PDD

FOR NOW THOUGH, I'M AN ADDER :D

well SpaceTraveller I guess you know we can't diagnosis but I can realte to some of the things you listed

Hyperactive - born that way been that way all my life I will probably die that way. I prefer to move about and I hated haviing to sit in school all day.. If the teacher was boring man it was like being in hell. I have always squired and fidgeted and I perfer to always be doing some thing with my hands or feet. I fiddle with stuff all the time and will waste my time doing things like balancing a paper clip off the end of my tongue {I was boreing teachers favorite = not}



Coordination _ I am decent I don't do vedio games but I can draw blood from any thing with a vein, begin an IV in just about any body and I can shoot the wings off flies with a nail gun. I don't care for team sports I did play baseball for a while. Now I perfer things like martial arts, weight lifting stuff like that.



Perfectionism/OCD - nah not really strange thing bother me like the spacing of my paragraphs in post and stupid stuff. I am picky about my socks being matched but I can't even see the top of my computer desk I have papers and crap scattered



Boredom/interests - I am into multitasking and high stimuli. I like the internet because I can change subjects when I want. I am often running more than one computer and have even learned how to integrate hard drives.{I don’t know **** about computers} . . I screw with stuff all the time I rarely break it but it has happened. Unless I am forced into an adverse environment {as an adult it is a rarety} I normally do not have problems with boredom. . .I am the opposite I normally have a multitude of crap going on. . . . I was bored more often when I was a teen and young adult.



Directions - I do best if they are written in another language I pay as much attention to them




Social anxiety/low self esteem - I respond like you do I also have problem initiating conversations, but for me it is harder y with strangers. Self esteem fluctuates some time I am down on my self other times not. I really don't give a crap any more what other people think of me simply because some people are going to like me some are not . . . .not much I can do about that. I also have problems asking for help unless it is professionally and lives hang in the ballots . . . .I am open but not revealing, emotionally I am distant because I tend toward logic. I am not too sure what to do with many emotions except anger I know to many thing to do with that one {and they all normally get me into hot water}. . . I don't do needy well. That is unlikely to change. . .




Depression - rarely not clinically I had had some pretty low point in my life.



Irrational thoughts - I used to be more like you now logic is a habit I don't do superstitions at all. . .




Defiant – I have little authority over me now; I have almost completely eliminated all of them - in a sense that is true I am normally the supervisor in one profession, but I work best if left alone by supervisors and in my other profession I partner a business where I am one of the bosses. {me and the other take turns firing each other}


I can be defiant especially if I sense an injustice or bias. I normally don't go out of my way to be a rebel but I do know I have been perceived as such . . . I guess I am one who normally flies just under the wire so to speak. I get close some times really ****ing close but I rarely go over into rule violation. . . . . I don't argue unless I have a point then it is called debating and trolling {such an ugly word try conflict driven,or biological adversion to broaring conversations :D } I rarely begin arguments on purpose but I sure like to end them therefore I am attracted to conflict.

By intellectualized both it means I enjoy good debates . . . and I am pretty decent. I take on people who are far more educated then I am. I see myself as having many of the same needs I seek to push the limits within my self and see how well I can finagle around stuff. . . I like problem solving, and over coming which probably serve to satisfy the same sort of needs your ban work around, trolling and defiance probably do . . . I am not much different I can relate to much of what you are saying I am simply older and have had more years to prefect the process so it works to my advantage.



I am - attention deficit predominately hyperactive and dyslexic. I have tested in the gifted range but I do not feel very gifted I am unsure what gifted would feel like.


I have some traits of bi-polar but do not meet the DSMV criteria in severity or dysfunction so basically I have insomnia with periodic mild mood swings.


I have had a truck load of stuff ruled out so I won’t bore you with the details because crap this post to long enough.