I am a person with ADHD and I strongally believe I am an A-type personality. I have read that people who have an A-type personality are usually employed in the fields of Lifeguarding, EMT-A, Policing, firefighting etc. This type of personality can be very strong-minded, stubborn, wants to always assume the leadership/hero role, won't give up a fight for what they believe in, go getter, and has the batteries like energizer bunny. I forgot one more thing is that we are fueled by the adrenalin rush, like high emergencies that we have to deal with. Sometimes I can feed off the rush and want more. I don't want to sound crazy but when I do a rescue I am pumped. Since I was a young girl I wanted to be the hero and I use to dream being wonder woman or some female in an action role. Have any of you adders/adhders believe you are an a-type personality?

Galexica

As usual I feel a mixture. I have rescued many people in the rough ocean and I feel like super woman. I am happiest when charged with adrenilum. Yet I never fantasized of being a hero type. My fantasies are low key, like being all alone, or the perfect stable relationship, boring huh? Yet I am a thrill seeker! I am resigned to my extreme duality. If astrology was surely something I believed in, then they are right cause I am a gemini.

I was told a long time ago that I was Type A....but since then, and after meds and counseling....am slowly shifting to Type B...with underlying Type A tendencies. heh

I am vey untype A. I am laid back and have been very inattentive my whole life. My wife is very type A, but is not ADD. I think she has some very strong OCD issues.
Jim

I'm not sure if I am.... What you discribe aounds some what like me. But from what I know about type A, I think I'm on the line.

I'm not a Type A personality. I do have the impatience and the desire for variety, but I do not have the competitiveness or the drive or the organizational skills of the true Type A. Type A people seem a lot more focused to me...

I kind of fit into a variety of different "Types" in that particular descriptive. In the Navy, I have willingly risked my life. No adrenaline rush took place though. In fact, I experienced no fear response whatever. Simply a sense of urgency, knowing what had to be done, having the desire to do it, and doing it. I did experience quite a bit of anger towards the on scence leader at the emergency situation in question though. He was a moron. He risked the lives of four additional people, myself among them, needlessly because he didn't know his job well enough. Arguing with him would have wasted valuable time in which people, who may or may not have been occupying the berthing that had been flooded out with toxic gas would have been dying so I didn't argue I just did it. I did it ****ed off when I should have been scared senseless. Fortunately, the volume of gas was smaller than expected and residual pressure from surrounding venilation systems forced the gas through existing ducting and out of the space until the remaining level was only knee high (hydrogen sulfide gas is heavier than air, sometimes smells of sulfur, if the concentration of gas hasn't shut down your sense of smell which can happen too quickly to notice. It is flammable, which the on scene leader was right about, but OBA's (oxygen breathing apparatus) which we then used to fight fires and which generate oygen through a chemical reaction that generates a pretty fair amount of heat, will not set it off (they were originally designed as emergency mine escape oxygen supplies and never intended for fire fighting. The lable on them says as much. "Not for fire fighting use". The Navy has used them for fire fighting for decades to great effect. They simply trained around the limitations of the device. The rumor mill started one about that label though saying it would set off flamable environments and the on scene leader bought it, instead of his training. Ships are loaded with flamables, and flamable environments. Top that off with the fact that fires produce flamable gasses. The idea of using a device that set these off to fight them is ludicrous... Just don't go any where near oil with one on, and don't smoke within about 15 minutes of wearing one with all that pure oxygen still in your hair. POOF! Instant baldy due!). Anyway, point is, I don't panic over stuff that most people find fear producing. Nor do I get upset over the things the wife thinks will set me off. I think this is partly due to a life time of anxiety disorders. Part of it is surely due to the non-risk averse nature of being ADD as well.

I'm cautious, I'm generally careful, but I do what must be done, I make decisions as they must be made, and I GO! You can worry about mistakes when there is time to kick yourself for them. When it comes to damage control on a ship, Action and enthusiasm, mixed with a little common sense, go a LONG WAY!.

Experience goes a lot further, but you can't be too picky dealing with 19 year olds. :-)

Most of the time though I am laid back, as much as I can be. I don't mind taking a leadership role, but I am always open to suggestions, and if someone clearly has a better handle on a given situation than me, it is simply inefficient to add extra steps to the chain. I then become the relay to the upper chain. In unstructured and Chaotic environments (in other words, the sudden emergency, as opposed to an unstructured job which would suck. In an emergency it's no holds barred, I can use my talents as I see fit, not as society wants me too. Screw society, I have a ship to save!) I am at my best. I also do quite well in Big picture management environments, like the Combat Systems Officer of the Watch position, which is in charge of and responsible for monitoring overall status of all combat systems electronic equipment status, material condition, radiating condition, whether or not personell are working aloft on the antennas, basically everything to do with the electronics on board.

Some times, I am driven, and sometimes I am not. Perhaps I am a frustrated perfectionist?

I am not a type "A" personality by any means. I find type "A"'s have a great deal of difficulty accepting other's who are not type "A"'s. This isn't a problem for me. I think sometimes My OCD and hyper focus produce extra drive and it isn't always healthy. With my running for example, I have to monitor myself closely, or what little is left of my OCD tendencies gets in the way and I can injure myself very easily. I just don't want to stop running some days.

Or typing, apparently... Maybe I am a type "Type" personality?

I'm a Type "Z" personality. While all of the type A's are cleaning and organizing I'm looking for a place to catch a few.... Z's.
I thought having ADD kind of excluded us from being a Type A person. There are times I have been type about one thing or another.... but to be consistently type A? No.
I would think this is a "linear thinkers" trait.