Re: Could I have ADHD Inattentive?

[kc5jck]

Tiddler has some good points to consider. For years, I thought that my symptoms might be due to giftedness. However, as more and more pieces of the “puzzle” were placed, it seemed that many didn’t fit quite right with the giftedness explanation. A giftedness explanation became like adding epicycles to the Ptolemaic system of circular planetary orbits. An ADHD explanation, like the elliptical orbits of Kepler, provided a perfect fit.

I stay active until the early hours of the morning, usually wasting time on the computer doing mindless things unless I can find something productive to do. Otherwise I will lay awake for hours. Wanting to do things, even when having the time and ability to do so, and being able to actually accomplish something seem almost mutually exclusive.

As you go through school, your grades will suffer when you reach the point that you actually have to read, pay attention, and stay on task for longer and longer periods of time. When you reach that limit, you will be labled as not trying, except on those things on which you can “hyperfocus”, like science or math.

Well, I’m here on the tracks watching my train of thought go around the corner so . . . I guess I’ll quit for now . . . 😥

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