How do you sit? | ADHD Information

I'm reading the book "Stopping ADHD" that someone else here recommended -- when everyone votes I'll tell you what exactly I'm talking about.

By the way, vote more than once! I actually sit several of these ways.
HeidiMarie38633.3719791667Brig, can I edit the poll? Those shoudl be in there too. . . I am comfy when I sit in my oversized chair, legs hanging over the arm or curled up with my legs under me, or slouched down with my feet propped on a foot stool, knees bent. Usually I am in all these positions and probably a few I'm not thinking about at the moment if I set for more than a few minutes.

i voted for all as i sit all those ways....but if constant squirm was on there and legs crossed would of voted for em too....

anxiuos to hear what you will tell us

i have no clue u would have to ask davie boy who isnt on here....but u could start a post on can u edit a poll? and someone will surely be able to help u..

sides i would like to no too as when i have done em in the past i always forgot something and didnt know how to add it...good ?

by the way still anxious to see what this is about!!

I could never sit on my legs. I tried when I was young because my mother and sisters all did (hmmm.. I wonder...) but it hurt and I gave up pretty quickly. Besides my dad was a poop about anything he considered unmanly and leg sitting and crossing legs were definitely poofy to him so I am glad I couldn't just so he would shut up.

I have always been squirmy though. As a teen I would take up the usual feet on back of chair watching TV upside-down. For a few seconds anyway.

Now I find that I can sit quite still usually. I tend to cross my legs until they cramp or go to sleep. It's nice not to have people telling me to quit bumping the table with my restless leg too!

i went and watched a movie the other day and i couldn't get a ticket to the bean bag cinema so i had to sit on the normal seats...

basically this means that i need to sit somewhere where there is no one in front of me, or at the side of me because i keep stretching, squirming and moving...
the only place i could do that the other day was in the front row... i ended up sitting on the floor with my legs crossed!!!

I sit on my butt.

Not my toes! sillieheidi! my toe NAILS!

HeidiMarie!!! Clean up your leggos!!!

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[QUOTE=barb]not even on your toes?[/QUOTE]

I chewed 'em off on ADDerall...

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*vomits*

Dammit Davie look what you've done! Now whose going to clean that up . . .

[QUOTE=barb]not even on your toes?[/QUOTE]

I chewed 'em off on ADDerall...

not even on your toes? I tend to wrap my feet around the legs of a chair to keep my legs from bouncing all the time. It makes it hard to sit the keyboard in your lap while typing

I sit with legs out front, nokinkinknee (Creek in North Dakota?).

My buttocks are on the very forward edge of the chair.

The back edge of the seat back supports my head.

My arms are stretched out horizontally.

Look like Jesus crucified in a chair.

Btw, my feet are crossed.

And barefoot.

Nails?

yep- chair tipped, stretched out, constantly repositioning (squirming?), and one leg bouncing like i'm pumping the treadle of an old sewing machine, or playing a bass drum like keith moon!

In school I sat on my legs all the time. I even got vericose veins in the place where I would sit on my other leg.

When I took a two hour test the other day, I had to sit in an uncomfortable student dest to take the test. I noticed that my legs were straight out in front of me as much as possible. I think I instinctively chose the front row for that reason, so I could stretch out.

I once joined a book group which were mostly older women than me, they were all very proper. I had a very hard time sitting in the uncomfortable chairs.

I have read this book too. I think you probably saw one of my posts on it.

I teach school and I notice that the ADHD kids are the ones with their chairs tipped, legs sprawled, and arms stretched out.

[QUOTE=annidagostini]

In school I sat on my legs all the time. I even got vericose veins in the place where I would sit on my other leg.

I once joined a book group which were mostly older women than me, they were all very proper. I had a very hard time sitting in the uncomfortable chairs.

I have read this book too. I think you probably saw one of my posts on it.

I teach school and I notice that the ADHD kids are the ones with their chairs tipped, legs sprawled, and arms stretched out.

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Anni, were you the one who had good results with this? I'm going to look for your post again.

I thought the book interesting, for even the 'inattentive' ADHD'ers like me have as much problem sitting as do hyperactive ADHD'ers. I think the main difference between inattentive and hyperactive is how your personality handles it! I think someone high energy will be high energy with or without ADHD, just to a lesser disruptive/distractive degree without the ADHD. And I am ADHD inattentive because I have a much more mellow personality.

Anyway, the authors of the book believe that ADHD stems from one simple thing that most of us hadn't thought of -- we are uncomfortable. Yes, we fidget and move around, and we think it is because of the ADHD, but it is because we just really are not comfortable! Look around, most people can sit up straight and correctly in their chairs and do their work! We on the other hand are always finding new, crazy ways to sit and make ourselves comfortable. I do my best reading laying down in bed or in the tub. If I have to sit *correctly* to read, I cannot read it! It goes on further to say that other 'symptoms' of ADHD manifest themselves through our uncomfortability. If we're uncomfortable, we can't pay attention and such. Also, how many of us have terrible handwriting and HATE writing with pen and paper? After a few minutes of taking notes for my ONLINE courses, I am HOLDING my wrist with my other hand and grimacing through. It hurts to write and takes so much time, it drives me nuts! I never understand how other people keep up with the prof's and take notes!

Anyway, this uncomfortableness comes from an immature reflex that we should have 'matured' by the age of 2 through crawling. Alot of ADHD'ers bypassed the full 6 months of proper crawling by walking early! Also, by not crawling properly, or being confined in playpens or walkers. I myself am one of 11 kids and my mom said I didn't walk til 16 months, but I didn't really crawl either, I just sat there! So she just let me sit there (in my playpen...hmmm....) Anyway, its believed that crawling is an extremely important milestone in not only infant development but human development as a whole. Sure, you can function with this reflex not fully matured, but it is more difficult for you than others.

Anyway, all these things seemed to ring true with me. It never occured to me, the way I sat in school - I always sat on my legs, or with my feet sticking straight out, or wrapped around the desk -- no teacher ever really corrected me because I was the smartest girl in the class, and I wasn't causing disruptions being the Inattentive type ADHD. But I often got up for various reasons -- bathroom breaks, sharpen my pencil, etc. And writing was so tiring and bothersome! It never occured to me this was abnormal.

Anni, you said you got a vericose vein from sitting on your leg -- I have a HUGE vericose vein behind my right knee, have had it for atleast 10 years (I'm 23). I used to get comments all the time about it, no one understood how I being of average height and weight for a kid my age would have such a huge vericose vein (and small ones) on the back of my leg. I used to think I was just fatter than people could see! LOL

i always sit on my legs. have em bent under me or kinda with
my legs pulled right up to my chest --- (this makes it very easy
to sleep in economy class cos i can just tuck myself into a super
small ball in the one seat.)

i was always told off at the table (eating) because i would
automatically bring one leg (knee bent) up onto the chair.

"put your knees down!" and then six minutes later having
unconsciously done it again. "PUT YOUR KNEES DOWN!"

and so on and so forth until the end of the meal. it was a losing
battle because it was always done unconsciously. and the
moment i stopped consciously thinking about it - up it would
pop again!

also wrap legs around legs of chair, around own legs or sprawl
kinda sideways if more of an armchair type thing and generally
never sit normally in a chair if given a choice. tip backed a lot
at school (again 'don't tip on your chair' five mins later 'DON'T
TIP ON YOUR CHAIR!').

it i see a comfy chair first thing i do is kick off shoes and tuck up
feet.

oh and 'jigging'. 'stop jigging' as whole leg is making shared
table shake in class. and again five mins later 'STOP FLIPPING
JIGGING'!!!!

boy, what a pain in the butt i must have been to sit next to -
never thought about it properly before.

(doesn't everyone do this, though??)
chjones38633.7145833333chjones, I am the same way -- I wasn't chastised at the dinner table because with 11 kids there was too much else going on for my parents to bother.

Also, I've discovered this is a reason I don't like visiting other people in their homes. I can't make myself comfortable and just feel so out of place. I imagine if they came in my house and saw me sitting in my rocking chair with my feet up on the edge of the couch, or one foot bent on the edge of the couch and the other one sticking out straight in the air across it, they'd think I was weird and lazy!
they'd think I was weird.....

well if they don't know that by now???????
[QUOTE=HeidiMarie] [QUOTE=annidagostini]

In school I sat on my legs all the time. I even got vericose veins in the place where I would sit on my other leg.

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Anni, were you the one who had good results with this? I'm going to look for your post again.

I thought the book interesting, for even the 'inattentive' ADHD'ers like me have as much problem sitting as do hyperactive ADHD'ers. I think the main difference between inattentive and hyperactive is how your personality handles it! I think someone high energy will be high energy with or without ADHD, just to a lesser disruptive/distractive degree without the ADHD. And I am ADHD inattentive because I have a much more mellow personality.

Anyway, the authors of the book believe that ADHD stems from one simple thing that most of us hadn't thought of -- we are uncomfortable. Yes, we fidget and move around, and we think it is because of the ADHD, but it is because we just really are not comfortable! Look around, most people can sit up straight and correctly in their chairs and do their work! We on the other hand are always finding new, crazy ways to sit and make ourselves comfortable. I do my best reading laying down in bed or in the tub. If I have to sit *correctly* to read, I cannot read it! It goes on further to say that other 'symptoms' of ADHD manifest themselves through our uncomfortability. If we're uncomfortable, we can't pay attention and such. Also, how many of us have terrible handwriting and HATE writing with pen and paper? After a few minutes of taking notes for my ONLINE courses, I am HOLDING my wrist with my other hand and grimacing through. It hurts to write and takes so much time, it drives me nuts! I never understand how other people keep up with the prof's and take notes!

Anyway, all these things seemed to ring true with me. It never occured to me, the way I sat in school - I always sat on my legs, or with my feet sticking straight out, or wrapped around the desk -- no teacher ever really corrected me because I was the smartest girl in the class, and I wasn't causing disruptions being the Inattentive type ADHD. But I often got up for various reasons -- bathroom breaks, sharpen my pencil, etc. And writing was so tiring and bothersome! It never occured to me this was abnorma

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Yes, that was me!! And I was like that in school too! I got straight A's but I would always forget things until the last minute. My mom - bless her - brought three assignments to me in one day in three separate trips!!!

I really think this book is onto something - the exercises have helped me so much!! And doctors think that we will have ADD or ADHD all our lives. After reading this book I think that these authors have a solution - and the drugs won't have to be part of our lives anymore.

my primary way of sitting is one foot crossed on top of the other. But that wasnt one of the choices.

sherry

how come 'not still' isn't a choice?

or- what about bouncing one leg incessantly?

or- for short periods except when worn out for the day?

I want to edit it.. Basically there really are two differences.. Sitting straight and still, or NOT. :P am usually tied in knot. arms in and legs crossed tightly or wound around each other