Today at church we were having a worship team meeting and the bassist forgot to take his meds. I had been thus far sedated in a barely conscious stupor. As soon as he said that I like...woke up! It was really weird. I was talking really fast and really loud and I even though i was already fidgeting the fidgets became more and more exagerated. It happens even around my just Inattentive friends. Normal? Just me?

My mind tends to randomize more than usual when I'm with AD/HD guys. A month ago I discovered the reason lol (diagnosis! yay!)

I think it's this way with AD(H)D as well with Non-AD(H)Der's. You are more excited, more alert, more in tune with anyone you feel you have something in common with. So it's not really the disorder it's just the fact that you have common ground, for us it is nice to be around someone who doesn't get annoyed by our off topic comments or random ponderings.

I can talk with an ADHD-Inattentive friend of mine for hours and we both just drift to one topic to the next and neither her or I mind in the least! We interrupt each other when something that the other is saying reminds us of somethign else and it's refreshing. I can't stand talking on the phone for long periods with normals, they drive me crazy. I have to repeat myself over and over and over and over and over again, it's like they are pre-mentally challenged.

Hahaha I know what you mean! I hadn't taken my medicine one day and my friend introduced me to this guy. I let a few rude comments slip because he was late, and I then apologized telling him I hadn't taken my ADHD medicine today. He then told me hadn't taken his either and we then spun into conversation about how/when we were diagnosed, what medicines we've taken, and what current medicine we're on. We then talked about anything and everything with each other while having two seperate conversations with the one friend who introduced us without missing a beat. It was amazing! It's like we went on a totally different plane to talk.

The best part is we both got into that comfortable silence that ADHDers have, ya know the one where you get lost in your thoughts and you're fine being there but you worry about the nonADDers being uncomfortable? Well then we started up again talking about that silence and how people think we're upset because we go from hyper to silent for no reason.

It was amazing.

The best part is we both got into that comfortable silence that ADHDers have, ya know the one where you get lost in your thoughts and you're fine being there but you worry about the nonADDers being uncomfortable? Well then we started up again talking about that silence and how people think we're upset because we go from hyper to silent for no reason.

God I love this place! Yes, the silence I don't mind but everyone else can't stand! Whenever I doubt that ADHD exists or that I have it, I need only come here. Everyone is out to say that we don't exist and we are somehow defective.

Yes, what's especially fun is when you and a friend's meds wear off at the same time and you both just sort of "go wild." :D

I can talk with an ADHD-Inattentive friend of mine for hours and we both just drift to one topic to the next and neither her or I mind in the least! We interrupt each other when something that the other is saying reminds us of somethign else and it's refreshing. I can't stand talking on the phone for long periods with normals, they drive me crazy. I have to repeat myself over and over and over and over and over again, it's like they are pre-mentally challenged.

I know! And after a while you forget what were you talking about at the beginning. Hahahahahaha, it's a never ending talk, something hard to do with normals for me.

Anyone else notice that normals speak really slowly...?

Anyone else notice that normals speak really slowly...?

People tell me I speak really really fast.

Yes :) that's what they say, but we know they are speaking slowly. Same with typing. I type about as fast as most people speak.

I can talk with an ADHD-Inattentive friend of mine for hours and we both just drift to one topic to the next and neither her or I mind in the least! We interrupt each other when something that the other is saying reminds us of somethign else and it's refreshing. I can't stand talking on the phone for long periods with normals, they drive me crazy. I have to repeat myself over and over and over and over and over again, it's like they are pre-mentally challenged.
I'm like that too...I love it:p

People tell me I speak really really fast.

esp when people say " what " all the time becuase you speak so damn fast and finally you just give up and say **** it

esp when people say " what " all the time becuase you speak so damn fast and finally you just give up and say **** it

Wow...it's kinda nice to learn about people that do things as you...really :)

Haha I have this friend who jokes that we are brothers. We are both wild and crazy oddballs. We can understand whole paragraphs by exchanging sentences. When I talk like that with normal people they have no clue- they can't fill in the blanks. It's just good to meet someone who is as weird as you are.

I click with "unusual" people..they're not diagnosed as Adult ADD is a pretty rare diagnosis in Scotland. It's the ADD women I find most interesting...very dangerous because my brain just goes all sorts of wonderful places.

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OH MAN! I have maybe, two other ADD friends, and when we start talking! W O W, its SO MUCH FUN!

The energy at the ADDA (http://www.add.org) conferences is amazing. Just imagine a few hundread adults with ADHD together for a full weekend!!!

The energy at the ADDA (http://www.add.org) conferences is amazing. Just imagine a few hundread adults with ADHD together for a full weekend!!!

Oh...would love to go