I don't know enough to have a lot of intellectual conversations, but I can't stand stupid immature people. I feel like I am mature, but I don't know to express myself. I say things to people I don't mean and then I want to just say sorry, but it gets annoying. I feel like I have a pretty short attention span when I talk to people and then after that, I just space out. A lot of times I misinterpret people or just take things the wrong way. I process things very slow. It seems like people find me just boring, stupid, and probably rude after awhile. And all I am is just... clueless and out of it.

I tried dexedrine for the first day yesterday along with a little bit of red bull. It felt great for the first two hours and then I started having heart palpitations and then a panic attack :(

I know how you feel about the conversation thing. I get intimidated by mature convo's and bored and annoyed with immature convo's. And I often put my foot in it if I don't agree with what there saying, if they say something thats wrong I will let them know it, or criticize out loud about the bad that people do, can't just have a laid back talk with me and I will take people personally and the wrong way. It sucks, but just know you aren't alone.X

oh and careful, red bull n Dex will not do you any good, especially anxiety-wise. 2 stimulants together bad for heart :(

yea... I had to go to the hospital. my heart rate was at 140! Ah it feels good to be not alone, but it gets old ya know?

I'm going to my psych doc tomorrow and were going to talk things over. I'm scared to try the dexedrine again because of that experience. I also want to ask about desoxyn, seems like no side effects to me!

kwalk-

I have often wondered if I might be "retarded." Supposedly I have an "above avg." I.Q. (?) And I did go back to college in my late 20's, early 30's and several of the teachers there encouraged me NOT to study Business but to "do something with that mind." ?? (Perhaps I found compliments where there weren't any - but I feel LESS like I'm extremely dumb since my college experience. However, I have come to believe - mostly from participating on HERE -that I do have some sort of "learning difference" that currently results in my appearing less-than-bright.

In fact, I am beginning to realize that I know very little about my own ADHD and how it effects me (and others). I know I've read things here, but it doesn't stick in my brain. PLUS - the fact that there are so many in the field who "don't believe in ADHD - especially in Adults not previously dx" really bothers me, and I'm thinking that on some level it kind of de-motivates me from really trying to learn about my ADHD.

Those are today's revelations! :p

Sue

Sometimes I take 1/2 a dexedrine.

PLUS - the fact that there are so many in the field who "don't believe in ADHD - especially in Adults not previously dx" really bothers me, and I'm thinking that on some level it kind of de-motivates me from really trying to learn about my ADHD.Sue, are you referring to people in the medical field?

Interesting title to this post. My husband will often walk by and if he sees me on this sight he will say (jokingly)"talking to your tard friends again ?" Talking with people is tricky its like you have to analyze their personality before you can say something you think is funny. That can't be ALL me or you sometimes those people are the ones more messed up than we are. I hate boring people.

No not retarded.
...Unique, just like the rest of us.

even popeye knows I yam what i yam.

.....you're bad points are your good points..

for example...

I talk too much, I interupt when I'm excited.
....the good thing about that is...I make people comfortable, because i'm gracious and
friendly...and i got alotta ideas.

don't be so hard on yourself.



DIFFERENT DRUMMERS




"If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.

Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.

Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.

I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

I may be your spouse, your parent, your offsping, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences. "

------david something..I forgot.

susanne........ you just made my day. Thanks x 10!!!! :D

I totally feel you in that aspect kwalk..I feel like im in the middle like that too. I think of myself as a simple person or as some might put it a dumba**. Alot of these posts,and i hate to admit it, i just can't understand sometimes. It's obvious that alot of the individuals that are members of this site are very intelligent, well educated people so, for me, it's intimidating sometimes. I usually just read...or try too..lol. I'm a weird guy because i can't understand simple things...things so simple that most people dismiss me right of the bat but on the other hand you can hand me the sheet music for any piece of music and i'll transcibe it and be playing it on 4 different instruments within the hour. But whats even weirder and hippocritical about me is i cannot deal with other people that are "dumba**" like myself. Thats horrible isn't it?

on the other hand you can hand me the sheet music for any piece of music and i'll transcibe it and be playing it on 4 different instruments within the hour.I am green with envy! I have musical ability but can't sight read music to save my soul which is a real handicap for impatient ADHD people.

But whats even weirder and hippocritical about me is i cannot deal with other people that are "dumba**" like myself. Thats horrible isn't it?I don't suffer fools gladly either.

I'm glad I made your day..
...but, you were always cool.

you don't need me to tell you.

my parents told me:

"be whatever you want..
...just don't be like everyone else."

I bet they regret that one! ..LOL!

I don't know enough to have a lot of intellectual conversations, but I can't stand stupid immature people. I feel like I am mature, but I don't know to express myself. I say things to people I don't mean and then I want to just say sorry, but it gets annoying. I feel like I have a pretty short attention span when I talk to people and then after that, I just space out. A lot of times I misinterpret people or just take things the wrong way. I process things very slow. It seems like people find me just boring, stupid, and probably rude after awhile. And all I am is just... clueless and out of it.

I tried dexedrine for the first day yesterday along with a little bit of red bull. It felt great for the first two hours and then I started having heart palpitations and then a panic attack :(

I don't know if this will make you feel better, I CAN imagine how you feel & you are not alone. I ALWAYS misinterpret people. I frequently second guess myself if they like me or not. It is frustrating & sometimes I take something serious they are telling me as a joke...and then make a fool out of myself. :o You know for yourself, that you are not rude or stupid just special. Hang in there, I UNDERSTAND what you mean 100%.

I forgot, I always say something that I know I should keep to myself about someone...5 seconds later, I say it aloud ....WHY is that? I knew not to say it but I just couldn't control myself.

I forgot, I always say something that I know I should keep to myself about someone...5 seconds later, I say it aloud ....WHY is that? I knew not to say it but I just couldn't control myself.Chelsea17, I work with a really special group of people and as some of us are aging, the expression "did I say that out loud?" is heard more frequently. :D

This is true. LOL :D:D:D:D

Imnpl:

Good to rub up almost against again ya' little ol' lady, but when you get to be my ripe old age you take anything you can get ;) and the expression I hear most often is me saying:

"What did you say? Can you say that again louder, please?"

"What did you say? Can you say that again louder, please?"

Ditto

Well, that would be my husband who doesn't need a hearing aid. Really difficult having a private conversation in public without drawing attention. And when I do raise my voice, he accuses me of yelling! :D
The first thirty years of marriage were a cake-walk compared to this! :eek:

Huh? What was that, honey? ;)

P.S. Just needed to get that chance to get closer, bb!! :cool:

a reallly good point too is...
....retarded people are happy...they don't care.

you might be ok...*smiles*

I forgot, I always say something that I know I should keep to myself about someone...5 seconds later, I say it aloud ....WHY is that? I knew not to say it but I just couldn't control myself.


I do this allllllll the time. I have gotten better with people that keep me as their friends though. Also I have learned to not let myself hang out with someone when I'm in a really anxious or bad mood. My irritability makes my impulsive words ten times worse when it comes to keeping my opinions to myself