What does mild ADHD look like?

[ana futura]

Originally Posted by plank80

I would say severe ADHD is more like homer simpson, I think peter griffin is ment to be "slow".

I'm pretty sure Peter Griffin is just meant to be a Rhode Islander.

[meadd823]

Originally Posted by CrushCrush

I cheated my way through school and o matter how hard I try could not get a good GPA. As far as work, lol..do you know how many times I was written up for coming in late??

I've bee in trouble at every single job I've had for coming in late. Even at the smaller companies. I actually got fired and WALKED OUT of training at Compaq because I did bad on a test.

I did not have the forethought it took to cheat -Sprinkled in some haphazard way are some abilities that allowed me just enough success to be dismissed later misdiagnosed

Crap I do not even accept jobs that expect me to be on time every day.I get that stuff out of the way in the interview - My clock runs five minutes behind every one else's.

I struck lucky in that I went for a career in high demand and can be rather decent at it in strange ways.

That did not stop emotional burn out so I ended up leaving that profession and I now work with my husband - I go to work when I want and leave when I want but if I do not get orders ready and loaded for delivery I do not get paid - period.

Nothing motivates like the fear of starvation

Originally Posted by CrushCrush

I love being called down to meeting room, then someone brings down my stuff and security comes and walks we out while I'm all teary eyed and can't figure out why failed when I thought I did so well.

I can so relate - I have been taken off employers property in hand cuffs!

Originally Posted by CrushCrush

As far as social difficulties you cant compare apples and oranges. I only have ADHD with anxiety that is in remission. If I had other disorders then it would be much different.

Apples and oranges are both fruit and . . . . .

Social difficulties are typically the most impairing because collaboration is how our species survives.

Ever try to catch any wild animal with your bare hands? Humans suck - we are slow moving not at all flexible, thin skinned and basically weak so how did we mange to dominate the animal kingdom - collaboration.

Our society is made up of people doing various task in coordination with other people doing completely unrelated task thus enabling our species change our environment to suite us instead of doing like most other species and adapting to our environment.

A person who is intellectually weak but socially successful will be better off than some one who is intellectually superior but has weak interpersonal skills.

What is anxiety in remission?

Originally Posted by CrushCrush

I'm such a poster child for ADHD the I even have high cholesterol. I even meet that obscure stat. Like every single stat describes me. People born from single mothers hae a higher risk of ADHD? Well that's another stat I meet.

My doc of decades wrote in my initial evaluation that I had the most sever case of adult hyperactivity he had seen all year - I was diagnosed December 1993

ADHD is a heredity disorder -

It's the ADHD in one or both of your parents that caused your mother to be single but your mother being single does not in itself cause ADHD!

Originally Posted by CrushCrush

One stat you don't hear is 'people magically discover they have ADHD While working on their THIRD degree at NYU and was in talented and gifted program all through elementary school. That's one stat you won't find.

Academic achievement is only one area of functioning - One can prevail in academic achievement but still be impaired in other areas of functioning such interpersonal skills, personal hygiene, money management.

Being an academic failure is NOT part of the criteria for ADHD diagnosis.

There are NO stats on magic - that is what makes magic soo magical