Re: ADD & Demencia?

[wolfshades]

I’ll bet you almost every adult person with ADHD has wondered about these same questions. In fact, long before someone suggested I might have ADHD (after which I did some research and then finally went for all of the testing and was finally diagnosed) I was sure I had early onset alzheimer’s. I had always forgotten stuff before, but just didn’t notice it until I got divorced from my wife and was living alone.

ADHD often manifests in the forgetting of things. Not because they’re not available to your brain – they clearly are, because quite often you’ll sit there and just *know* that you *know* the answer – you just can’t recall it easily. It comes from an overload of stimulants. Stimulants like – the next thought you have, which is far more interesting and bright and bubbly than the one you’re thinking now. It’s why we’re so terrible at remembering people’s names – five seconds after we’ve been introduced. It’s the reason I’ll go nuts trying to find my keys, sometimes for ten minutes, before I realize I’ve had them in my hand the whole time.

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