How were you as kids? | ADHD Information
Just one my heart desires, a lady to sit beside my fires.i hope you get many presents you will have an entire harem
[QUOTE=Brookelea]drug induced add?? i love you daviesilly !!!
but i'm still smarter than you 
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Can't B. Here, let's test. If you were a mathematician, what would you say 2 + 2 is equal to? e.g. Two plus two =
window
Wiondow? Final anaswers? yeah window...i hate that spam thingie...
Wrong. The correct answer is four, is what the mathguy would say.
A lawyer now. is asked what is 2 + 2 =
What would he say?
btw, score = daviewonder 2 ; brookalagging 0000
funny ha ha davieboy......congrats!! 2000 posts!!!
And with that, dear Lady, I shall go rest my head on a feather bed.
Wow,
I must have missed the boat.....Nobody ever wanted me to skip a year. 
You guys must have some type of high functioning ADD. I never even managed to finish a book in school. I could never get started on writing anytype of paper. I use to freak if I had to do any of these things. I remember when I was learning division and my times tables. My sister sat down with me, I just remember being highly confused. She got up from the table and told my parents she is just plain stupid....From that time on that is all I ever heard, she's cute but stupid.... I always thought if I can not get started on something. I must just be dumb....My sister on the other hand ripped thru school graduated early, 4.0 student. Went to nursing school, RN 4.0 there to, and now she is dealing with other issues that thank the lord I didn't receive. There is something in life, that we all have to learn from. I am just catching up at 40.
If only they gave me a little Ritalin back then, who knows where I would be today.
Montana Mom
O.K. I was just wondering how everyone else's childhood was. Please respond with your responses.
I was held back in first grade, teacher just said, I needed to be held back for academics and social skills. I was not hyper at all.
I remember in grade school that most all the teacher use to slam my desk up against the coat rack thinking I would pay attention. It didn't work, I use to day dream more*!
I never heard what the teacher was saying, But, I did do something that I have never heard of anybody else doing as ADD person. I use to listen to what the teacher said, and then repeat everything back into my head. Thinking that I would really be ready for that test. I could not even tell you what they had said afterwards. I do not recommend this it is exhausting. LOL I was a real space kadet.
On to middle school, I just spaced out...probably all periods, not unless I got to do something with my hands. I am not sure how I got to high school but, I did.
Now to high school, I just signed my self up for every typing class, shorthand, office machines...etc....and only did the minimal of true thinking classes. I graduated...Horray!!!!
On to adult hood, zoned out with the television, something fierce. Tuned out my kids and husband.....3 way conversations with people forget it.....real space kadet!!!!
Son was diagnosed, and I almost fell down in the doctor's office. I told the DR. "I think you are talking about me!!!!"
Started on Concerta this past July, and OMG, I can not believe how many commercials are on that TV now. I can not read enough and love to research stuff on the internet now. I am actually more organized today and get more done in 1/2 the time. We use to live in Germany, we had a 3 story house that had all ceramic tile on all 3 floors, It took me over 8 hours to clean it!!! I wish I had the Concerta then, it would have been a huge help and I probably wouldn't have been so stressed out!!! Til this day I will never own tile!!!!LOL
What was your symptoms as a child, anyone out there like me. Just wondering???
Montana Mom
[QUOTE=Brookelea]i was very very very naughty... i skipped grade 5 and again skipped year 11 because the schools (plural) felt that i needed constant stimulation..
i was asked to leave two schools because i create havoc, chaos and finally anarchy..
i was also told that i had the mind of a brilliant criminal.. well so much for that..
now i teach naughty children.. karma karma karma [/QUOTE] Ha! And you complain a/b your DD! I'm gonna show her this confession!!! What was her email address? You are just reaping what you sowed, little farmgirl...
i have to sleep.. i get up in 4 hours to go to work
have fun!!!
you're perfect
Brooklea,
Tell me this: Did you ever drink alcohol or do any weed?
My experience with this was not until I was about 22 years old, The club seen for me was to have a drink in hand, and sip it. But would rather have a Diet Coke.
My one experience with weed. I became extremly hyper from it and never touched it again, I did not like the way I felt on it at all. I thought it was suppose to calm you and I got so hyper from it that everyone at the bar wanted to know what I was on and if they could have some. Never again, did I ever try that! I was around 23 years old then. Late Bloomer I guess. Is this normal?
Brooklea,
Wow....is all I can say! I am glad that things are going so much better for you and I have read your other post with Shakespeare, you sound as if you are just so damm intellegent, you need your meds to slow you down and I need mine to speed me up. Probably the weed thing I experienced is it had just way to many stimulating properties for my Zoned out system to handle. I always wondered about that. Thanks for clearing it up for me. I have to get busy and clean now, talk to you later.
Regarding: Percocet, I had my wisdom teeth pulled, they gave me this drug for pain. I took only 1 pill and the that afternoon I felt as if I was higher then a kite and drunk on a whole bottle of tequilla. Hang over from hell!!!!!!!!! That Zoned out system of mine.
Thank you Brooklea for the compliment,
I have always been so passive, that my parents always said, "Where in the world has this daughter of ours, received so much patience." This is really abnormal....I was a family's dream when it came to honesty, I never ran the streets, never drank alcohol in high school, my parents said, come home by midnight, I was usually home by 10:30. I always brought my friends home to meet my parents. Never had sex...Listened to all there advice. My aunts and uncles just loved me, for my personality....But, not my older sister she gave my parents complete HELL and still does at the age of 44.
yes, yes, and did cocaine, speed, magic mushrooms.. and a plethora of prescription drugs that i stole from my parents.. all before the age of 18..i was stoned during my final year exams for university entrance!!
weed can have different reactions.. i know ppl that became hyper on it.. others slept, others hallucinated..
i sleep with caffeine!!
not a late bloomer.. i started to early.. i regret starting at all
[QUOTE=Brookelea]i think my competitive nature got me through... it was a competition between my cousins and me... i wasn't going to lose!! [/QUOTE]
Ha! And you probably didn't, ever! ...until you met me... 
[QUOTE=Brookelea]yes, yes, and did cocaine, speed, magic mushrooms.. and a plethora of prescription drugs that i stole from my parents.. all before the age of 18..
i was stoned during my final year exams for university entrance!!
weed can have different reactions.. i know ppl that became hyper on it.. others slept, others hallucinated..
i sleep with caffeine!![/QUOTE]
You sound so Americentric!!!
[QUOTE=Brookelea]i sleep with caffeine!!![/QUOTE]
Does your dh know about this?
I thought you were monogamous...
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=Brookelea]i sleep with caffeine!!![/QUOTE]
Does your dh know about this?
I thought you were monogamous...
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What was your dh's email?
Topic: How were you as kids?
I was a sheep of a different color.
[QUOTE=Davidornado][QUOTE=Brookelea]i think my competitive nature got me through... it was a competition between my cousins and me... i wasn't going to lose!! [/QUOTE]
Ha! And you probably didn't, ever! ...until you met me...
delusions of grandeur aren't really part of adhd davieboy... go get redx
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[QUOTE=Brookelea]i sleep with caffeine!!![/QUOTE]
Does your dh know about this?
I thought you were monogamous...
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What was your dh's email?
[/QUOTE]dh watches me sleep with caffeine
i think my competitive nature got me through... it was a competition between my cousins and me... i wasn't going to lose!!
Brooklea,
Obviously, I was way to passive by nature, to even think about competing agaisnt my Sis. or anybody else.
maybe you saved yourself...
Rebellious from school/parents.Hated school and quit in 12 grade.
My wife has spd w/ld and had epilepsy liked school but struggled. She went to private schools better able to help her. This was in the 70's though.Mainstreaming wasn't really happening much then like now.
I did great in school - it was very focused and gave me a path. When I have to organize myself - like my home, my own business (which I lost) and types of jobs that require me to organize myself.
I have inattentive type ADD which does not include the hyper part. My dad used to tease me that I was slow. I am methodical. But I do daydream. And I get very distracted. I burn dinner, forget to tuck the kids in bed, forget to pick them up from soccer, I am late for meetings, etc.
I am trying exercises from a book called Stopping ADHD and they have helped me quiet a bit.
i was just 'spacey' --- everyone was very kind with me really. even the teacher's seemed to be pretty relaxed with me - only occasionally really lost it. i would be late, i would be scatty, i would never be able to find anything, somehow i never had a ruler or a pen that worked, always had to borrow, i would be wearing the wrong things, i would forget preps/meetings/anything out of the standard routine, i couldn't remember anything. i was just in my own world 90% of the time.
i meant well though. and my friends looked after me pretty well --- sorta grabbed me by the hand and dragged me to the right place, i tried not to be difficult but i would just forget or somehow find myself in the wrong place. normally i just followed everyone else but sometimes i followed the wrong person and would walk into a French class that was for stream 2 instead of stream 1 (we were streamed within our year).
i still do that now. i mean to drive to a friends house and 15 minutes later i find myself outside my mother's flat wondering why i have come??? completely confused.
it was a very gentle but very strict school if i can put it that way. people were extremely tolerant of personalities but you got HARSH punishments and having a dreamy personality was never an excuse --- but i never resented it because i knew that i hadn't done x therefore i was going to get y.... and it did mean that a sort of camaraderie amongst the pupils built up. it was us against the enemy (ie the teachers) and we looked out for each other really. and that was the best thing.
and the opposite of you --- i was pushed up/skipped a year because they thought the more challenging work might make me focus more. no such luck, however.
i was very very very naughty... i skipped grade 5 and again skipped year 11 because the schools (plural) felt that i needed constant stimulation..
i was asked to leave two schools because i create havoc, chaos and finally anarchy..
i was also told that i had the mind of a brilliant criminal.. well so much for that..
now i teach naughty children.. karma karma karma
Me in school!!!!!!
[QUOTE=Brookelea] dh watches me sleep with caffeine
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I DO??? (initials: DH)
dh doesn't use those words anymoreapparently brings him back bad memories
[QUOTE=Brookelea] [QUOTE=Davidornado]
[QUOTE=Brookelea]i think my competitive nature got me through... it was a competition between my cousins and me... i wasn't going to lose!! [/QUOTE]
Ha! And you probably didn't, ever! ...until you met me...
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delusions of grandeur aren't really part of adhd davieboy... go get redx
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here's the only red thing i could find
[QUOTE=Brookelea]i was stoned during my final year exams for university entrance!! [/QUOTE]
See, I told you I was better! I took LSD DURING my organic chemistry II final exam!!! As I handed the test to the Prof, she said, "why are you grinning so hard???" I couldn't speak a word, b/c I was sooooooo high!!!
OMG! ...LSD made me ADD!!!
drug induced add?? i love you daviesilly !!!but i'm still smarter than you