Re: ADHD and IQ? A question at the end of my ridiculously long post about symptoms.

[Anonymous]

Hey, thanks for that.

I guess I’m just curious about it. And it seems that many of our brightest contributers to society had ADHD.. Steve Jobs is someone who I believe had undiagnosed ADHD. Einstein, Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, etc etc. They all seem to have biographies that kind of mirror how a lot of ours have gone. The ability to think “outside” the box is something that I think people with ADHD are better at than “normal” people. And since an IQ test is largely based on the ability to solve problems in different ways, I thought it might have a positive effect on IQ test scores. Yes, I understand that hard work, determination yada yada yada. Yeah, I have worked hard at everything I’ve wanted to do. Unfortunately, I have a very very hard time staying with things after a given amount of time.. I’m getting to the point where I may want to apply to grad school when I get my undergrad. I havent taken medication long, but it seems it is helping with school a lot. I havent been on it long enough to determine how “smart” I actually am. I have been a middle of the road student because I am literally bored to tears by a general class setting. I just kind of wondered if anyone else had had a similar experience to me.. And hwmuch meds helped them. The IQ score I was mainly thinking could be helpful in that I dont really have any kind of bench mark as to wheremu limits stand as intelligence goes.. I didnt want to apply to grad school and waste money if I had like a false sense of intelligence or something..

And Billd, I sense that you have a condescending tone to your post. I was’t trying to offend anyone, I was just hoping that people with ADHD had an inherently higher IQ. Just for piece of mind I guess. Idk. Take it how you want, but I wasnt “ranting,” I was just trying to share my story and ask some questions. But jeez, I apparantly dont fit anywhere. I’m probably just lazy. I’ll just drop the whole ADHD thing and stop taking meds or whatever. I’ll just try harder.

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