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Hi Pyro-Pixie, welcome.  You sound like a very bright young lady.  Do you still have the article from YM mag?  If so, bring it to your guidence counselor at school & ask for them to help you.  I am sure they have delt with this before, along with unresponsive parents. 

My other thought is do you have a favorite Uncle, Aunt, or Grandparent that you could talk with who could help you with your parents? 

Hang in there, & keep us posted. 

hello i am a 15 yo girl and i think i may have add or adhd. this isnt something that i just woke up and decided that i had. i have been having issues with concentrating on things for a long time. i am very smart so i have the potential to to very well in school but it doesnt work out that way. ive had problems with concentration for a very long time (at least since the 2nd grade probrably longer) ive always been distracted easily and often i day dream in class sometimes im looking forward and seemingly paying attention but its like everything they say i dont hear or atleast dont remember. one thing that happens to me thats kind of wierd is that someone will come up and say something to me when im sorta spaced out and its almost at if they are speaking some other language. the most recent and serious insidents of my problems happened in 8th and 9th grades.

in the 8th grade we were required to do a science fair project and while it seems like a rather simple task it was extreamly hard for me to first decide on a topic and then the papers i had to do for it i couldnt concentrate and id find my self counting the tiles on the floor well i eventually did it some what and nearly failed (i turned it in the VERY last day of school and it was due in feb. and i of course recieved a zero)

in the 9th grade i decided to join journalism like my friends did because i thought it would be fun. no matter how many times i had everything explained to me i never understood and i was afraid to ask the teacher because she had yelled at me many times causing me to cry. she knew that i had problems with getting work done but she decided that i just procrastinated and didnt care about it. she had me removed from her class at the begining of the 2nd semester and i was denied the half credit for the first semester.(i ended up a credit short at the end of the year but i had enough to pass) 

after that insident i relized that i couldnt afford for something like that to happen to me agian but i didnt know why it all happened to me. i recently recieved a ym magazine that had an article on adhd and it had a list of some of the symptoms and i had all or most of them. so i went to sites to see if they came up with the same and i did. i really think i may have it but i am scared to talk to my parents because both of them(they are devorced i live with my dad) think that add and adhd are abunch of horse hocky and my father especially doesnt like the idea of someone in our family seeing a psyciatrist. i really want to know if i do have it and if i dont have it then i want to know what the problem is.

please if any one has advice i would be greatful.

~Pixie~

Id almost garuntee you have it. Im always handing things in late every time and only just passing most things. what do you mean when you say he thinks add are a bunch of horse hokey cause if he has a negative attitue towards them well, add is mostly inherited.

Pixie, I certainly can identify with you! I totally understand the foreign language thing! It is like living in a nightmare sometimes. You do sound like you have ADHD, possibly the inattentive type. It is seriously under-diagnosed, especially in girls.

csmommy is right on when she says you should take the article to your school guidance counselor (or school psychologist)! I believe talking to him or her is the best thing you could do. They can talk to your parents and explain the difference between can't and won't. Unfortunately, many people don't understand ADHD and because it doesn't have a physical impairment that can be seen, they think it is a cop out. The guidance counselor or school psychologist would be in a position to explain this to your father in a way he can understand.

www.brainplace.org has actual MRI images of brain scans which show the mis-firing of the neurons in a person's brain when they have ADHD. It may help to show your father those so he can see the physical facts.   Barb

 

Thanks for the all the advice y'all are great!

~Pixie~