Famous People With ADD

[Tinkerbell3]

Tracey Gold was on Growing Pains not Family Ties

I added this in another post but I'll put it here as well:

-Michael Phelps, Olympic Swimmer (ADD)

-Jonathan Papelbon, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (ADHD-and if you've seen him off the field you would notice this is VERY obvious lol)

[Dextrostat]

Gary Tygert Bruton “Ty” Pennington

My favorite. Acts Just like me.....

[casper]

I too am waiting for it to come out that G W. Bush does in fact have some sort of LD or ADD...we all know its true

[SB_UK]

the most nonADD people I know are more disordered than the most ADD people I know - sure the ADDers are in and out of the asylum -
however it's the nonADDers who're sending them there.

NonADD thinking associates strongly with 'chain of command' 'unquestioning loyalty' 'obedience' 'hierarchical systems where one gets to the top by knowing people'

kinda' -
I guess -
- suggesting that some very learning disordered behaving people might just be very nonADD.

If one thinks linearly -
- lateral thinking is impossible.

Incapacity to think laterally might appear as a learning disability -
- to those of us getting only brief glimpses of the individual in question.

Personally -
- I'm with Naruto -
don't tow the party line

- burn it

and run around transforming oneself into naked 12 foot tall blond women afterwards.

(yes

I

*can*)

:-)

[Michiko74]

Originally Posted by justAwierd-o

Robin Williams..... ADHD....?

whodathunk?

I knew it! I knew he had ADD!!! I've been watching his performances, his energy, and just the way he switches topics...

[Earplugger]

This January article about actor Jared Leto caught my attention. He's talking about his amazing preparation for his role in the new movie Chapter 27, where he gained 70 lbs of fat--kind of like the opposite of what DeNiro did for Raging Bull.

In a single sentence, he disclaims that he has ADD, but then admits to having the ability to "hyperfocus"--which is one of the quintessential characteristics of add/adhd. I just found it ironic.

"When I focus on a film, I disappear and focus on that completely. It's the same thing when I'm on tour or in the studio making music: I commit and focus on that completely. I kinda have the opposite of ADD. I have a hyper-focused disorder, where if there's a given task in front of me I really concentrate on that."

http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/artic...90/story.jhtml

[John621]

Originally Posted by Crimsoneer

Sorry, but how the hell do we know some of these people had ADHD/LD? Churchill? Agatha Christie? God, we had no idea the conditions existed at the time...is it because their memoires make them sound easily distracted?

Well Churchill did very poorly in school, he was reputed to be very forgetfull, had many interests and a restless nature,
had a vary varied career, and anouther sign was he was famous for his comebacks. No diagnoses but just deductions from biographies etc

[John621]

Albert Einstien,
Was famous for walking out of his house so deep in thought he forgot to put any pants on.

[MECMR]

This is a great list! There are many people who had/have ADD or ADHD, or had some sort of mental illness or learning disorder.

Churchill I have always heard had depression or bipolar disorder, not ADD. However, some depressive symptoms cause attention problems. It's not impossible for them to co-exist.

Another one to add to the list is Howard Hughes. He had very serious obsessive compulsive disorder. It has been said he did much better on medications, but so many of the ones availible at the time made him groggy, and then he felt unable to do things.

I'm curious why some people say they take the list with a grain of salt, or find it hard to believe. Is it from experience of finding this information incorrect, a desire for more evidence, or a disbelief that people this sucessful and well-known could have a disability? I don't wish to argue the point, I'm simply curious and thought I would ask.

Take care,
Emmie

[SuzzanneX]

STEWART James, 1908-1997, (speech impairment),




.....it was an impairment? ....lol!

was he tripping over all the money it made him?

[ADHDbutTrying]

Just to show that ADD doesn't mean you can't succeed in life, here's a list of famous people who overcame their ADD to reach their dreams:

Albert Einstein - scientist
Wright Brothers - aviators
Leonardo da Vinci - scientist/artist
Tom Cruise - actor
Charles Schwab - business mogul
Michael Jackson - singer/songwriter
John Lennon - singer/songwriter
Prince Charles - prince

[x Alanna x]

some of my friends who have ADHD are really good at producing music and dj'ing

i am learning to mix music at the moment and i hope to produce some good tunes..

[Rudegar]

leonardo davinci had ADD?
It is pretty much pointless to go so far as to speculate someone long dead had such a condition.

[ADHDbutTrying]

Originally Posted by Rudegar

leonardo davinci had ADD?
It is pretty much pointless to go so far as to speculate someone long dead had such a condition.

Well... Last I checked, Tom Cruise and Michael Jackson were still living...

[livinginchaos]

Check these threads out to find more:

http://www.addforums.com/forums/show...=famous+people
http://www.addforums.com/forums/show...=famous+people
http://www.addforums.com/forums/show...=famous+people
http://www.addforums.com/forums/show...=famous+people