Ditto, welcome, and I'd love to tell my "rot" to shut up sometimes too. The sad thing is that when your brain starts going and you're sitting in class and you remember something funny and you can't stop the giggles! No one knows why the heck you're laughing either... I think it been shown that most people with ADD are above average intellegence... you just can't tell most of the time. At least that's how it is with me.
After having my son diagnosed with ADD, I have done a lot of research on the subject and found how I have all the criteria for the condition also. Putting the feeling into words is really hard. To spend your whole life not feeling good enough or never feeling that your parents are proud of you is difficult. I thank God that we now have medications for our children and wish that when I was a child I had that opportunity. Knowing you are a smart person trapped inside an idiot's body is frustrating and can be very depressing. There is peace knowing that I am not alone and that in fact in some very good company. Blah to the normals (or should we call them muggles - he he) they make me very jealous. I would love to have an empty space in my head for a few minutes that was just mine and not cluttered with rot.Thanks for putting into words what I have been feeling.
I also feel jealous sometimes that some people seem to float with little struggle through daily activities. I am so tired of Everything being such a big deal....
I am also new to the realization that I have a diagnosable problem... hang in there!