Re: can the symptoms get better or worse w/age?

[Anonymous]

Hi.

I’m a newbie to this site

and to the idea that there is something “wrong” with me.

Toofat, I love your terminology and it pinpoints the way I’ve felt my whole life.

Even as a chld I knew what my teachers and other adults including my parents were

saying wasn’t true. I’m not “lazy”, I’m not “not applying myself”, I’m not “just not trying”. They just couldn’t see what I was seeing, they couldn’t feel the things

I felt and they didn’t know the things I already knew. And I couldn’t for the life of me

figure out how to explain “it” or myself.

A good portion if my “pressure to conform” subsided when I reached Jr. High.

I loved sports and actually excelled at ALL of them.? (go figure)

A great deal of relief came due to daily class assignments carring much less weight

in the overall class score. 10% at the very most. Quizzes and exams made up the 90%.

I went from teachers passing me based on test scores and because they just couldn’t

bare to have me disrupting their class another year to not just passing but practically straight “A’s”.

Needless to say, but I’m gonna anyway, I developed a new found relationship with my folks, teachers and other linear thinking people (thanks Toofat) in general. I soon became known as ” fun to be around”, “a kid with a great sense of humor”, “a prankster”, and yes “ornery”. No more was I the mean, rude, thoughtless troublemaker that I was labeled and carried with me for 11-12 years.

Life was great and just kept getting greater and greater!

I too had a son that was gifted just as I. Didn’t know what to call his “affliction” any more than my own, but I knew we were one in the same.

Also have tinnitus. Silence is not golden for me! Oops giving my age away.

I have read a few posts that make me wonder if hormone fluctuations/age may have an effect on my ADHD.

Spent the first 12 years in my secret, private world no one else understood.

Spent my next 37 years grasping the world by the tail, kicking butt and loving every minute of it.

And now for the last, something like a year, lost inside my head and can’t seem to get out.

I welcome any thoughts or coments, actually I’m asking.

Am I the only one changing with possibly age???

Thanks……

Lost and so exhausted from trying to find my way out…

But still pacing throughout my home while poking this out on my phone….

I too have tennit

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