Re: Is there really “nothing positive” about ADD?

[billd]

Bill Clinton’s thoughts are too well organized, and he can speak so well without a teleprompter….. thinks on his feet, makes decisions, I doubt add.

Like said – for all those claiming mr xx and mrs yy are add – where’s the diagnosis? Where’s their medical report? OR, are you speculating and stating that because they are hyper and successful that they MUST be add? They exhibit it on stage and screen – but elsewhere?

So far I see all this name dropping, but no facts, no supporting evidence. Maybe it’s just their personality??

Show me how it’s been an up in my life- and prove to me it was the ADHD, and not my IQ and skills I inherited, skills that my family has possessed for hundreds of years. MY brothers are in so many ways MORE successful, but don’t have ADD – so, how has it benefited me?

If it was such a benefit to the majority of us, then why would so many of us want out from under that weight and get treatment?

If nearly getting killed every few years a benefit? Is very poor grades and negative comments in school reports a benefit?

If getting into trouble at work every few weeks, not being able to complete tasks a benefit?

However, with treatment, or not even having ADHD at all – I suspect I’d actually be farther, I’d be really wowing them because I’d have accomplished so much.

I do not agree with everything any of the doctors you’ve been discussing say – not a one of them is 100% IMO. Barkley is, however, the closest to describing me and my deepest feelings and the history of my life of anyone.

Can anyone prove that your getting things done, your outside the box thinking, the big picture thing – can you state beyond doubt it would NOT be there without ADD? I know a lot of non-ADD folks who can do the exact same things you say you do with it – so that sort of wipes out anything that says it’s due to ADD and not in spite of ADD.

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