Greetings,

It is said, that folks with ADD/ADHD have a higher-than-normal intuition. We normally get "feelings" that average folk-i don't get.

So my question is this: do you ever get feelings or thoughts that seem to give you insight into another time or place?

Example: For me, when I hold or see an item, I get a huge flood of sensations going through my head. Mainly, things that make me feel "connected" to a past time. Or, of a certain event in a past time (btw, I'm talking about years,decade range *and* in the past. Not saying I'm psychic or anything).

The feelings or sensations can be often overwhelming. Feelings of intense joy or sorrow come over me. I can't seem to turn it off.

Anyways, call me crazy but does anyone else get "this"?

People will say and do things that I have thought in my head, were going to be said or done. I guess it could be like a 'behavioral premonition' for lack of a better term. I can also 'read' a person really quickly and know how to interact with them better.

I definitely have a strong intuitive sense and have made use of it professionally and personally. I would even say that I owe any success that I have had to having an intuitive ability. I became aware of this ability when I was in my late teens and began to really explore it in my early twenties. At that time, I unfortunately attributed it to some sort of mystical or magical ability, something I became so interested in I went to India for a year on a spiritual quest, and did the usual meditation, guru, pilgrimage thing... a fascinating experience but in the end the best thing it did was cure me of any sort of mystical or magical pretensions that I had.

Recently I have come to a better understanding of my intuitiveness and how ADD is at the root of it. The best way I can describe it is this... someone on this board, describing what it is like to have ADD, said that it is like standing in front of a wall of televisions, like in an electronics store, all tuned to a different channel, and being overwhelmed by the noise and visual information coming through, unable to concentrate and retain any information from one television in particular because another one would grab your attention away immediately. Every once in a while though there is a moment of clarity and focus that is so intense that it becomes possible to pay attention to each television individually and simultaneously. A huge amount of information is collected and sorted instantaneously and as a result arbitrary or abstract connections between seemingly disparate bits of data suddenly reveal amazing truths or indicate formerly unrealized possibilities.

It is that process that I have come to believe is actual intuition or 6th sense. It is the one positive thing I can think of that comes from being ADD. I only wish I had more control over when and how it happens.

Greetings,

It is said, that folks with ADD/ADHD have a higher-than-normal intuition. We normally get "feelings" that average folk-i don't get.

So my question is this: do you ever get feelings or thoughts that seem to give you insight into another time or place?

Example: For me, when I hold or see an item, I get a huge flood of sensations going through my head. Mainly, things that make me feel "connected" to a past time. Or, of a certain event in a past time (btw, I'm talking about years,decade range *and* in the past. Not saying I'm psychic or anything).

The feelings or sensations can be often overwhelming. Feelings of intense joy or sorrow come over me. I can't seem to turn it off.

Anyways, call me crazy but does anyone else get "this"?

There are so many ways of experiencing "the sixth sense" that it may actually be quite a few other senses - not physical or mental, but psychic.

Precognition - getting glimpses or foreknowledge of the future

Premonition - a 'gut level' feeling of a disaster or trauma that will happen

Psychomotry - getting glimpses or knowledge of the past by touching an item

Clairsentience - feeling energy or vibes (usually on a gut level)

Clairaudience - hearing vibes (that little voice that tells you things)

Clairvoyance - seeing things that are in a different place

I have heard about scientific testing that shows activity in a certain part of the brain when a person is using their psychic ability. Twenty or thirty years ago the medical field was scoffing at the idea that you could look at the brain to see what parts are working hardest when you are doing math or spelling for instance, and that you can see the difference in the way the brain works between neurotypical people and those with ADD but now there are brain scans that are seeing that. I think science is just beginning to catch up with the way our brains work - and having these psychic abilities is just one of the ways some brains process information.

IMHO - YMMV

yup....definately

I have experienced an event that proved to my cynical and scientific mind that humans do have the capability to receive, process and act on stimuli that are not detectable or explainable by modern physics.

Whether this is linked to the brain differences stemmng from either genetical or environmental factors is impossible to say.....however given my experience I'd say it was something that some people have genetically that is then lost or overwritten by subsequent environmental/cultural conditioning.

Do I feel and act on a "sixth sense"...occasionally.

Does this run in my family....yes...most definately as there are many anecdotes about it. What is interesting is that most of them would only be noticed in an era where normal communication over a long distance was slow. In a time of easy global communication the instances will not be as obvious.

Is it linked to any diagnosis of ADD or other neurological condition...No

Is there a history of depression, bipolar disorder, drug misuse or other possibly neurological "difference" in my family....yes

If we don't even have an inkling about what we are trying to detect, and the event we are trying to detect occurs extremely rarely, randomly, cannot be initiated and is almost impossible to corroborate with any degree of scientific proof then it's going to be a long time before we can convince anyone to look into it.

What will probably happen is that an unusual area in the brain will be discovered that is more complex in some people....and scientists will likely say that it's "vestigial" or does not appear to have any function and leave it at that.

But to answer the OP...yes have ADD and I have a sixth sense, however the family history of this trait does not follow the line of most obvious ADDness.

kilt

what about being Empathic or being able to feel the emotions of others. sometimes it seems that this does happen to me. I dont know if i am reading others but when i am in a room where somone is really stressed or upset i can tune into that and well start to feel that way too.

or numerous occasions I have been thinking the exact same thing that my husband said. Most cases, word for word.

I get excited and laugh, he rolls his eyes thinking I'm fibbing about it.

whatever the cause, it never ceases to thrill me.

I have a great book for you all to read about snap judgement (and some would call this intuition):
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell

Its just some studies this guy has done on snap judgement - at the very least it is very, very interesting. My guess would be that the ADDer can read body language and facial expressions (the small ones) better than most. This of course is just about human, not objects, but interesting nonetheless.

Oh, and as far as thinking the same thing as someone - I hate it. It makes me very, very impatient and I interrupt them as I know what they are going to say. It is rude of me, but feels rude to me as well as its wasting my time.

Thats a feeling no matter how illogical it is . . ..

Recently I have come to a better understanding of my intuitiveness and how ADD is at the root of it. The best way I can describe it is this... someone on this board, describing what it is like to have ADD, said that it is like standing in front of a wall of televisions, like in an electronics store, all tuned to a different channel, and being overwhelmed by the noise and visual information coming through, unable to concentrate and retain any information from one television in particular because another one would grab your attention away immediately. Every once in a while though there is a moment of clarity and focus that is so intense that it becomes possible to pay attention to each television individually and simultaneously. A huge amount of information is collected and sorted instantaneously and as a result arbitrary or abstract connections between seemingly disparate bits of data suddenly reveal amazing truths or indicate formerly unrealized possibilities.

It is that process that I have come to believe is actual intuition or 6th sense. It is the one positive thing I can think of that comes from being ADD. I only wish I had more control over when and how it happens.

What you've described is the very process of the right hemisphere of the brain. The right hemisphere is the side that deals with creativity and processing information in a holistic & intuitive approach (as opposed to an ordered, linear, logical approach of the left).

Your "moment of clarity" is merely your left brain switching off and allowing your right brain to take over; the left brain is generally dominant in most people (it's the side that deals with time, order, logic, naming things etc).

It's the right side of your brain that would let you watch all the TV channels at once; it's the left side that only wants to watch one channel at a time.

The book, "Drawing on the right side of the brain" has exercises on how to switch off the left side of your brain and let the right side take over.

Sounds like a lot of hoccus poccus mixed in with some speculation.

Ah yes, the mythical ADHDer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateralization_of_brain_function

I have said this in previous forum threads before - but is very possibly a small piece of what could be the beginning of an evolutionary trait of telepathy among the human species :)

I have a sense of precognition that tells me when I'm about to royally screw up a situation. For example last night I was very hungry and started picking fish sticks off a tray that was fresh out of the toaster oven and still seering hot and wound up burning my fingers a little. ESP told me I was going to burn myself but, like an idiot, I decided to just "see."

I also have a strong sense of other's emotions, which seems to work even when I'm only reading text such as on the internet. Well, sometimes anyway.

That's about the extent of my ADD super powers.

This is hilarious people, this makes us easy to mock...

Oh, I just remembered I have another super power! It's the power to chew on a pen for hours and hours and still be surprised every time I realize there's a pen in my mouth.

Wow, I should be off to save the world. First I need to think of a costume and--

Hey, where'd this pen come from?!

Perhaps it's all related to our "hyper-intuition". As to what Lunaslobo said, I totally agree. When I'm in a room with people, it's almost like I can feel what they feel (and they don't have to even say anything to me, let alone look at me). Now, if there's a dozens of people in the room, that's sensory overload for me. I can't handle something that big and end up leaving.

I don't think it's *superpowers* as some suggested but given the fact that we still don't understand all of what the brain does, couldn't it be possible? ADD/ADHD, Aspergers,Autism etc... are all on the same spectrum of disorders. Where parts of the brain are being over-used while other areas are being under utilized.

From what I recall, we're only using like 15-20% of our brains.

Could it be too much to consider that we're capable of so much more and "disorders" as they're called today could be a special ability tommorow?

While I can't say something ridiculous like predicting tommorows lottery numbers or seeing into the future to somehow stop grandma from getting pancaked - perhaps there's a *little* something.

In theory, a lot comes down to combonation of using numerology, statistics, pattern recognition and prediction - as opposed to some blanket theory of psychic abilities. We can see patterns, our brain processes this stuff quicker than most - thus we can probably "predict" the outcome and our intuition gives us that feel of what will/will not happen.

As GirlTogo likes to poke some fun into this - knock yourself out. Like the topic says "....a possibly spun thread". :)

-s

i am clarisentient. Appears to run through the females on my mother's side, and has for generations. i don't want to be. i didn't ask for it, and i never wanted it. Didn't even know there was a term for it until my aunt and cousin told me. i asked them how to make it go away, and was basically told i'd better learn to live with it. As a matter of fact, they both seemed a bit " put off " and offended that i wouldn't want to be this way.

Perhaps it's all related to our "hyper-intuition". As to what Lunaslobo said, I totally agree. When I'm in a room with people, it's almost like I can feel what they feel (and they don't have to even say anything to me, let alone look at me). Now, if there's a dozens of people in the room, that's sensory overload for me. I can't handle something that big and end up leaving.

I don't think it's *superpowers* as some suggested but given the fact that we still don't understand all of what the brain does, couldn't it be possible? ADD/ADHD, Aspergers,Autism etc... are all on the same spectrum of disorders. Where parts of the brain are being over-used while other areas are being under utilized.

From what I recall, we're only using like 15-20% of our brains.

Could it be too much to consider that we're capable of so much more and "disorders" as they're called today could be a special ability tommorow?

While I can't say something ridiculous like predicting tommorows lottery numbers or seeing into the future to somehow stop grandma from getting pancaked - perhaps there's a *little* something.

In theory, a lot comes down to combonation of using numerology, statistics, pattern recognition and prediction - as opposed to some blanket theory of psychic abilities. We can see patterns, our brain processes this stuff quicker than most - thus we can probably "predict" the outcome and our intuition gives us that feel of what will/will not happen.

As GirlTogo likes to poke some fun into this - knock yourself out. Like the topic says "....a possibly spun thread". :)

-s

Yeah, I agree. Some people are just more aware - of more than just what is being said to them. And yet, those of us who have ADHD find that when we're interested we hyperfocus and pick up a lot more information than someone who is NT might pick up. But when we're bored, we don't notice any of it - the words, the feelings, the stuff in between the lines. It probably means our brains work differently. And as I mentioned before, science and medicine are learning how to interpret brain activity and they are seeing that different brains react differently to the same stimulus.

That report that we only use a small fraction of our brains was "bad science." Now that they can do these brain scans they are finding that we use different parts of our brains in different situations. At the time of that report, we were expected to fit into "the norm" at school and at work and in society, but there really isn't any "norm", there are just societal expectations.

no, but I trust my first instinct and gut reaction. and the majority of the time I am correct. It's when I try to pay more attention and second-guess, that I am wrong.

Oh, I just remembered I have another super power! It's the power to chew on a pen for hours and hours and still be surprised every time I realize there's a pen in my mouth.

Wow, I should be off to save the world. First I need to think of a costume and--

Hey, where'd this pen come from?!

A cape is essential.

I have precognative moments on a regular basis, almost daily. I've had the flash thought of someone who I haven't spoken with in years and no 30 seconds my phone rang and it was that person. I pick up my phone cell phone for no reason and it rings. Flash thoughts of someone, weather its worry or a happy thought to find out that person around that time was in an accident or they got a promotion and so on. The other day I had a flash thought, hurm I haven't seen this movie in a long time, i'd like to see that. About and hour later i'm going through the channels on tv to find its playing later that day!

could it be that our brains are not filtering out the energy that we sense and what not and we are able to actually percieve things that are outside of our "normal" world?

I mean we are 3 dimensional being in a 10 dimensional universe.

My wife and I play Texas Hold'em Poker: she's been labelled a Jinx because when someone's money is on the line, she has a habit of blurting out the one card that would cause someone to lose a lot of money (when they were once a sure thing to win).

Unfortunatly she tends to do it to me quite a lot: I almost want to kill her when my three of a kind loses to a straight or a flush. :mad:

the theory I've come to enjoy is that our brains pick up a lot of information on a sub-conscious level. Just think about all of the things that you look at, but don't really see. I've gone through chores and suddenly a word pops into my mind, so I look around and lo' behold it's written on some item that I hadn't even noticed.

On occasion I get glimpses of a so-called six-sense. Example: My wife lost one of the lenses out of her glasses. We looked high and low for days and couldn't find the lens. One morning I was in the kitchen and for absolutely no good reason at all it suddenly occurred to me to look in the very bottom of the dishwasher. I opened it up and looked below the bottom tray and low and behold there it was. Absolutely no idea how it got there, and absolutely no idea why I would think to look for it there...I wish I could find a job at the bottom of the dishwasher...

If our minds are racing ahead (while juggling all sorts of sensory stimulation), it stands to reason that we would "foresee" or have a "sixth sense" of something that has just happened or is about to happen. A simple example: when others talk slowly, we tend to interrupt them and fill in the blanks because we "know" what they're going to say.

Not that we can always "foresee" or have a "sixth sense," but that we can do so more than those whose minds don't work that way.

a sixth sense is not nessiceraliy a super power like some people think, but a higher awareness of things.

i do it all the time. for some people its easy to relate it to a super power because it something everone cant do like a power and it is close to what we call super powers like telepithy, mind reading, premintions, etc.

when i was younger i would have dayja vu all the time and the feeling of familiararity was weird and overwhelming. i truly felt i was reliving that situation.

i am very aware of my sourroundings and the people around me as are many ADDers. i believe we pick up on many little things, add them together, and come up with different scenarios of what could happen or whats going to happen which make us very intuitive.

i was very clumpsy, so i started expecting to f-up. after while i started heading myself off. so if i leave something on the end of the table to do somthing else, i know it might fall if i forget its there or someone else comes and knock it off. sure enough someone comes by and bumps it but im ready cause i knew this might happen so i catch it. overtime i got real good at this and started expecting other people to f-up and catch their mistakes. it does not work all the time but when it does it looks really cool to others when they see it.

i think we as ADDers can read people because we have gained a better understanding of emotions and feelings through self experiences and because we are emotionally driven.
i can tell when someone is feel bad because i can feel it. i can see it even though they are trying to hide it because they are tring to hide it. if my mom, who lives in another state, is feeling bad i feel it if i think about her. vise versea. if i feel bad and think about my mom she calls asking if i am ok. its weird.

i can also tell what someone is going to say before they say it because i know what to expect from them or i read them.



i dont know the science behind it but i believe the creative part of the brain is tied into our emotions and adwareness which makes us ADDers highly intuitive.

I get alot of intense deja-vu. More than average I think.

Also last year something cool happened. We were going skiing one year, on the way to the house where we were meeting I noticed this big oak tree off to the side of a curve in the road. I turned to my fiancee and said, "that tree looks like its in a bad spot, someone's probably gonna wreck into that". Sure enough a week later on the way back in from the trip we drove by it and saw that it was all torn up from someone wrecking into it.

I drove by that tree hundred times before that time, but I didnt notice it until then.

I dunno if it came from ADHD....
.....BUT, I am intuative.....like very.

I notice the most with posts.
.....I answer on mostly instinct, like I get a "vibe" from the poster and
the text is only the connection, more than the actual thing you said.
...if I know you, I can tell in a few words if you are worse, or better than you
say.

maybe its a 6th sense we get to make up for the sense we dont have.

lol

I dunno if it came from ADHD....
.....BUT, I am intuative.....like very.

I notice the most with posts.
.....I answer on mostly instinct, like I get a "vibe" from the poster and
the text is only the connection, more than the actual thing you said.
...if I know you, I can tell in a few words if you are worse, or better than you
say.

maybe its a 6th sense we get to make up for the sense we dont have.

lol

It could also be due to the dyslexia - if you are genetically dyslexic then there is a distinct possibility you read with the right side of your brain which is why it is a 3D experience for us and not for others. . . it doesn't help spelling worth a poop but I think I probably get more out of a post than most do - I do not think non-dyslexic see the same patterns we do because they can sound the words out




Two Types of Brain Problems Are Found to Cause Dyslexia (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E3DF143DF93BA35754C0A9659C8B 63)


The readers who had compensated but still read slowly did not use the same brain regions for those tasks. Instead, they created an alternate neural pathway, reading mostly with regions on the right side of the brain -- areas not as well suited for reading, the researchers said.

Clairsentience - feeling energy or vibes (usually on a gut level)<br>
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Clairaudience - hearing vibes (that little voice that tells you things)<br>
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Clairvoyance - seeing things that are in a different place

I have had experiences that fit into these three categories. I do not know if they are ADD related.

Clairsentience - feeling energy or vibes (usually on a gut level)


I got that one

I think I'm just able to read people better, and pick up on subtleties (sp?). I don't quite understand it, but several people who at first meeting put me off, but were friends or coworkers with my husband have later ended up doing some later on that showed they weren't trustworthy, violent, etc.

I heard it said here that many who grew up in abusive or alcoholic families learned a hightened sense of things and people around them because of it, in order to keep themselves safe. Which wouldn't really be my case unless it happened before I was ten months old (I was adopted into a very stable, semi-functional family then).

Have to say this is true -- I consider it to be my brain functioning at a very high level - reading input so fast. It's like a slight of hand for the mind. I have read people's minds and touched boxes and knew what was in them. It was very frightening to me when I was younger, usually because when I channeled what someone was thinking about it was more often than not an emotionally charged subject for them (suicide of a mother, SID of a baby, a long lost girlfriend's name) in all cases I had no idea of the person's sorrow (having just met them) and suddenly I'd be commenting about something that was their deepest pain. It was awful. I felt like Gilligan when his tooth became a radio (anyone remember that episode?) But later I learned to channel my ability to "read" things on another level and it was very helpful in business. My business partner said to many times -- "you can see the future and read the subtext of what's going on in a business meeting better than anyone."

It's weird because ADHDers so ofthen struggle with social skills, but clearly we're able to read social and non-verbal communication on a very different level... (at least I can say that for me, and my son...)

Why would an AD/HD brain be any better at '6th sense'?

I've had a few instances of 'things that I should not know or be able to predict' but I know of others that make a habit of that.

Take my sister in law. She's a witch. You know - sexing unborn babies, knowing when people are going to die, seeing the portals to evil dimensions, keeping too many cats etc etc.

It must drive my brother nuts - he's a heavyweight scientist and doesn't even like cats :p

I have a very open mind on such things. As in 'it's mainly a bunch of crap but some of these things are very strange and can't be explained logically' open.

Quantum mechanics for eg. That is so weird it's like magic and the average person cannot get their head round it. I've given up on it since I have no use for it when I have the more pressing need of a new job, never mind finding out if that damn cat is dead or not ;)

Why should there not be more dimensions (are we up to 12 yet? I've lost count) and who knows if some of this stuff is something to do with them?

Well, I'm convinced that this is the brain/nervous system working at a very high level. Maybe it doesn't have anything to do with ADHD, but my gut says it is. Ohn thing for sure, it is not a cerebral process. When it happens to me it most definitely is when I'm not using a cognative part of my brain. Usually it happens when I've had a few sips of wine - not drunk, but just very loose - responsive, in a zone, in a flow. And boom, it happens. As I said before, it was very frightening to me when I was young. I didn't understand it and it creeped me out. And, of course, it freaked out the people whose minds I read, and I couldn't help it -- it was just almost animalistic. Because the nervous system is distributed I think some of this is processing happening outside of the brain.

The brain is really amazing. I do worry that there is a danger of medicating these fascinating parts of the brain away....I don't want to judge anyone's choice to medicate or not; but I do wonder what is lost in the process.

It is interesting to study how blind people use their visual cortex. At least those who's blindness occurs early in life -- their visual cortex taken over by the hearing center of the brain. So they actually hear using their visual cortex. This gives them hearing which assists in their ability to "see" sounds. I think there is some of this kind of cross over occuring in those of us who are wired so differently. It is amazing and beautiful and I have such a hard time accepting that it is a disability -- as it enables so many things. I'm not saying we don't struggle in a neuro-typical world, but, embraced and nurtured it is a gift.

Maybe it's not linked to ADHD...but so many people I know who are ADHD are able to move in this psychic space --- and since it is labeled negatively, the positive side of it isn't honed.... oh well. Now I'm rambling!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq42To1QgtY

I think some people are just more suceptible to the enviornment around them than others.

I am definitely one who is more sensitive to things than others. I am also very intuitive. I can use these well, or badly.

I have left companies just before the crash. My last job I was fired in January saying the company was going down the tubes. It imploded in March, with just about everybody leaving.

My intuition is quite scary, as I can be right or wrong with it. When I am being intuitive I have to take care to not move to fast. I never read the instructions any more, and I often do not learn what I am not intuitive about, I am learning to at least skim the directions.

Then there is the reading people thread. I understand it is a survival too. I still read body language very well, if you ignore the basics. But I hear it is something to let go of, and stop being so vigilant about protecting myself. It gets in the way of my life.

Rob

Hmm, just read a thread on folks who are highly sensitive, and many of them are more intuitive and empathic.

When I did some online research on the topic, I found these links:

http://www.hsperson.com/ (http://www.hsperson.com/)

http://www.sensitiveperson.com/attribts.htm (http://www.sensitiveperson.com/attribts.htm)

So, are people with ADHD more sensitive than neurotypical folks? I'd say there hasn't been enough research to come to a definitive answer. Maybe we're just so used to being "weird" and "different" that we don't deny these abilities.

The Highly Sensitive person (http://www.hsperson.com/) has a self test and I found 20 of the statement to be true. Many of the descriptions she uses are traits experienced by many ADDers.


Attributes and Characteristics of Being Highly Sensitive (http://www.sensitiveperson.com/attribts.htm)

Physically, HSPs may have low tolerance to noise, glaring lights, strong odors, clutter and/or chaos. They tend to have more body awareness of themselves and know instinctually when the environment they are in is not working for them.


Work and career is particularly challenging for HSPs. They are often overlooked for promotions even though they are usually the most conscientious employees. They are excellent project oriented employees because they are responsible and thorough in their work.
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~Underlingi Mine~

These Don't seem to ADDish to me

Some months ago the thought suddenly came into my head that I was going to die that day. I tried to ignore it although it was a little unnerving. Minutes later a vehicle hit me and flipped me on to my back. When I realised it was going to hit me I thought something along the lines of 'wow I could really die now'. So if that was a premonition, it wasn't of my actual death as I first assumed, but of soon having that atypical thought itself: thinking I was going to die. Rather a useless premonition but it's better than nothing.

That does seem to be a pattern of mine actually, as on another occasion I had a horrible sense of doom as I got onto my daily train, which isn't a sense I was getting all the time or anything, and all that happened was that someone did something dangerous, the train stopped and I got scared. No harm came to me apart from fear. I seem to get premonitions of my own scared reactions rather than the events themselves. If they're premonitions at all.

I don't know if it's ADD related or not but I definitely have an intuitiveness that many people around me don't have. My problem, and perhaps the ADD related part, is trusting the intuition and being able to use it in a meaningful way. Usually it just ends up in a horrible feeling after the fact of guilt that I should have listened to it in the first place, because it turned out to be right.

I do this. I sometimes know what the person who is talking to me is going to say before they say it, and I get "feelings" I had a bad feeling for a few days when we (ky) had an ice strom this past winter of something bad was going to happen to my husband and 2 days later he was in a wreck, luckly he was okay, but I do that so maybe it is linked....:)

Hmm, just read a thread on folks who are highly sensitive, and many of them are more intuitive and empathic.

When I did some online research on the topic, I found these links:

http://www.hsperson.com/ (http://www.hsperson.com/)

http://www.sensitiveperson.com/attribts.htm (http://www.sensitiveperson.com/attribts.htm)

So, are people with ADHD more sensitive than neurotypical folks? I'd say there hasn't been enough research to come to a definitive answer. Maybe we're just so used to being "weird" and "different" that we don't deny these abilities.

I know those links. Yep, I am an ADHDer with HSP tendencies. :D

To show, I am finishing the book Merle's Door, which is about a dog named Merle and his relationship with his human, the author. Merle is currently in the last stages of life, and I started bellowing and crying like a baby. It really bums me out to read about stuff like that.

I hardly ever see or hear the news any more. Politics, the environment, the economy is all so depressing.:mad:

For most of my life I have been trying not to be HSP or ADHD. I guess I was going to think myself into being different. All it got me to is the emotional mess I am today.:o

Everyday this happens to me. I'd at work on the road, I pick of the phone for no reason "ring, ring" its my wife. At least once a day, sometimes more. Also, I've thought about someone that I haven't spoken with in a very long time. 5 minutes later they are calling my phone or I see them. I finish peoples thoughts ALL the time it gets very disturbing sometimes. When I was running with the fire department, I would sit straight up in bed and then the pager would go off. Not the pager waking me up, i would sit straight up and then it would go off. My brother saw this once and his jaw dropped. Also, I've been away from the area and had a feeling of something happening to someone I know, only to find out later that they where in an accident or the like. This happens all the time too, a movie I haven't seen in a while pops into my head I say "hurm, i haven't seen that in a while" that same day or the next I flip through the channels only to find it playing. (Down Periscope was one, not a very common movie on tv, like Willy Wonka, lol)

I know those links. Yep, I am an ADHDer with HSP tendencies. :D

To show, I am finishing the book Merle's Door, which is about a dog named Merle and his relationship with his human, the author. Merle is currently in the last stages of life, and I started bellowing and crying like a baby. It really bums me out to read about stuff like that.

I hardly ever see or hear the news any more. Politics, the environment, the economy is all so depressing.:mad:

For most of my life I have been trying not to be HSP or ADHD. I guess I was going to think myself into being different. All it got me to is the emotional mess I am today.:o

You are not alone. It seems that HSP and Empathy go hand in hand, or may be different names for the same thing. I'm forum guide for a sub-forum on another discussion board where there are lots of us Empaths who deal with this and are relieved to learn that we are not alone. We share tips and crying towels all the time.

Clairsentience - feeling energy or vibes (usually on a gut level)

Clairaudience - hearing vibes (that little voice that tells you things)

Clairvoyance - seeing things that are in a different place



Never knew what these were. I've experienced all of those to some extent.

Especially feeling energy/vibes. So much so, that when I'm around a negative person, I go into a downward spiral and my only two options to get back to normal is to either get away from that person ASAP or change the way they're feeling.

I'll also feel what other people are feeling. I've started getting teary for absolutely no reason and looked up to see another person starting to cry... I always know what other people are feeling -- what mood they're in -- because I can feel it... It's weird.

[quote=Jibber;557476]I have a great book for you all to read about snap judgement (and some would call this intuition):
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell

I have read that book- its really clever and alot of it makes perfect sense but only when u stop looking at it based on conventional logic. I find that when I doubt my gut instinct by trying to rationalise the way I am feeling/ thinking, I only become indecisive, unsure and wrong. Usually I am right the first time but because the answer came so quickly and effortlessly i dont trust myself to be right and end up analyzing the issue to death and end up stressed and confused.