Re: Is This ADD or Something Else?

[Anonymous]

@shoe same here. I dropped out of football (a sport I love) because I couldn’t remember the right blocking or evading technique. I hated the weight room because I could never get the form right. I still regret not “trying harder.”

It was only a couple of years ago that someone explained to me what muscle memory was. I always thought practice was a waste of time, but apparently not. (That’s not to say you’re not trying hard enough–just that practice is not useless).

I think there’s a few ADHD traits that could contribute:

• inability to keep with a boring task (if repetition is the key to muscle memory, we left our keys at home.
• lack of self-awareness (ADHD sometimes comes with a host of self-monitoring issues, like stimulus thresholds for over or under sensitivity to pain; lack of body awareness; and an inability to connect cause and effect).
• restlessness
• lack of inhibition (we tend to not filter out the wrong answers, which means we’re constantly “trying” different ways to solve the problem. Precise motions are not made for this.)

I’m sure there’s more, but for me, I’d say ADHD is at the root. There may be something else, too, but it would seem to be aggravated by ADHD.

You might want to try to make a game out of it. I had physical therapy for a rotator cuff a few years ago. Doing the exercises wrong was painful. I looked into it, and Wii and Playstation 3 have some exercise programs that can monitor movements and ding you when you get it wrong. They use them for troops returning home who need to re-learn certain physical motions.

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