What is ADD/ADHD? | ADHD Information

My ADHD has not made it difficult for others around me.  I don't think it is an illness either.  I do believe that it is basically a difference.  It brings gifts if you find your correct niche personaly and profesionaly.  It can also cause extreme complications because society traditionally adapts to the norm, not the exception.  As we progress as a society I think we will pay attention to the norms and the exceptions to the norms and encourage both to full potentials.  A person with ADHD...which as we know is a label....can be a benefit so society.  Different ways of thinking bring different sents of results or solutions. 

I am on medication for my ADHD.  I am also lucky enough to be in a profession that is more tailored to someone with ADHD.  But the medications help with the details.  I also believe that if society offered an alternative education that is tailored to people who are not the "norm" I would, perhaps, be in a much different line of work than I am today (side note, I enjoy my current profession...so I am lucky).  Traditional education did not provide the vehicle I needed to achieve the scholastic goals I wanted for myself.  I still regret my inablility to complete post graduate education which is required for my "dream" profession.  All that aside, we can't always get what we want!

Or it makes life difficult for others around us.
[QUOTE=Davidornado]Or it makes life difficult for others around us.
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Yeah, that too.
I don't think of it as a mental illness, either, but quite a few people here have referred to it as such. To me, mental illness makes people unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality or make them given to impulses that they can't control. ADHD isn't like that; it just makes life difficult for us. ADHD envy.

The world doesn't put out a lot of DaVidornados...
But they do try to extinguish us...

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Maybe it's a myth.


Is this denial?

I refuse to see it as a mental illness.

The drugs I take refine it to a useful tool.

Not that it wasn't useful before, just more useful now.
I've seen ADD/ADHD called different things on this board. I'm curious about how others consider it. I also wonder whether how we consider ADD/ADHD affects how we see ourselves, our treatment, our place in the world.


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