What are your 'guidelines' for assessing your symptoms from overall behaviour? I mean, how do you know you're not listening because you really don't want to? Or when do you know it's the ADD?

My sister got very angry with me because I went ahead and did something without asking for her help. I suppose it was an 'impulsive' moment, but something had to be done at that moment and I took care of it.

What are your 'guidelines' for assessing your symptoms from overall behaviour? I mean, how do you know you're not listening because you really don't want to? Or when do you know it's the ADD?
Can you control your focus? If so, then it's not your ADD. A lot of it can be just habit. I know there's been plenty of times I haven't listened not because I couldn't, but because I just spend so much time in lala land, that I didn't want to. I could have focused, but I didn't.

Don't get worried about it, thuogh. There's no overall guidelines for correct ADD behaviour. :) You are who you are, everyone's symptoms are different.

you know when u try as hard as u can to do something and still cant do it right, when you try hard to focus and still cant focus on it and no matter how much you try you just cant go to sleep without pacing around in circles for two hours. Sometimes you can control it if you use every single brain power for the whole day but that hurts your brain and its kinda impossible.

Ever since I got diagnosed I've been battling between if it's me or if it's my syptoms. I think a lot of the things that are me were habits created from my undiagnosed ADHD. Like I still occasionally avoid homework not because I'm not able to do it now I'm on medication, but because I still have those haunting memories of when I tried to do homework with out my medicine and not knowing I had a problem. It's working to change on those bad habits that are important.

Don't worry you'll sort them out soon enough. But if you did do something pretty much as soon as you thought of it with little or no thought of the consiquences then yes it could have been your ADD acting up. But if you thought your sister would be mad and you did it anyway, it more you than your ADD.