If you were diagnosed with COMBINED type as a CHILD...

[Bethylphenidate]

...are you predominantly inattentive now, or are you still combined type? I've read that children with the combined type tend to become predominantly inattentive as adults, and that the hyperactivity sort of "phases out."

Well, that's certainly not the case for me! I'm just as bad as I was as a child! Sure, I've "matured" and all, but the symptoms haven't gone away; I'm just the "adult" version of the old me.

Who's with me?

[peripatetic]

still combined still physically hyperactive...though somewhat less energetic...but it has been thirty years, so i ******* hope so! i'm still rather energetic though, so if you didn't know that i used to be more so as a child, it's hard to imagine that being possible if you met me in person. i don't konw about matured. my impulsivity is still as big a problem as ever. with greater and more intractable consequences. so kinda worse. attentiveness holding steady at nil.

[Conman]

im still Combined Type

[Bethylphenidate]

Hahaha, I hear you, peripatetic! It's only been 17 years since my diagnosis; I'm bad now, but I was baaaad when (and before) I got diagnosed. I quip sometimes that "I'm like an 8-year-old" because I have the energy now is that a "normal" 8-year-old has. So imagine my hyperactivity when I was 8 years old, lol.

I put "mature" in quotations because rest assured, impulsivity is still here, and sadly, so are "tantrums" sometimes. (I learned to deal with authority, though, but I can still be problematic in the workplace, especially with my bosses.) My "maturity" is relative to my own as a child, but not relative to the rest of the adults in the world.

Attention? Pfffft? What's that? Still haven't "gotten" it.

[Conman]

it's still blatantly obvious when im not medicated (assuming youve known/lived with me long enough to see med VS not med). im still always doing something even when medicated, some kind of fixation problem is amplified either way, fidgety, cant sit still that much unless i really put my mind to it, more talkative than usual, much less thinking before doing stuff

...when i was at home unmedicated (like weekends, breaks, summer) prior to college, i was still yelling stupid and funny things out loud, making various noises of all sounds and colors, etc. pretty sure it's gonna return when i am back home for break

[Geno]

I'm still combined, although my hyper talkativeness "classic" ADHD H symptoms have turned more in to a "constant inner restlessness"(while still paradoxically being tired most of the time), restless leg syndrome, still getting bored extremely easily and never wanting to sit in the same place for long.

[keliza]

I wasn't diagnosed until college, but there were notes in my medical files from my pediatrician suspecting ADHD since early childhood. However, as a child I presented much more like ADHD-PI, primarily inattentive. I didn't have very many hyperactive/impulsive type symptoms until I reached about 9-10 years of age. Then, for unexplainable reasons, I began to demonstrate far more H/I symptoms. In college I was diagnosed ADHD-C. However, my younger sister was the opposite. She had many of the H/I symptoms in childhood, but around puberty she settled down quite a bit and ended up with ADHD-PI. Funny how it can work out like that both ways.

[Bethylphenidate]

Lol, I don't feel so "alone" anymore! The few people I know with ADHD, are basically all PI... and always were But I'm the 25-year-old who still does cartwheels in the parking lot at work, handstands on my bed when someone comes over, and I'm the biggest motormouth on the planet.