To "be" ADD or to "have" | ADHD Information
Hi everybody,Im from scandinavia and was diagnosed ADD three years ago.
I wonder how you explain ADD? I mean...do you say "I have ADD" or "I am ADD"?
Mikkel
Denmark
I "have" ADD. I think I am definitely much more than my ADD. In fact, ADD has been a major hindrance to my passion and creativity. ADD doesn't make me creative. I am creative because of who I am and taking meds helps me to get the thoughts in my head onto paper. And I am a free thinker because of who I am emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. My husband has always been a think-outside-the-box kind of guy, and he is not ADD. Also having ADD doesn't make us all smart. Years ago I worked in a school that was 95% kids with autism or ADD and there where smart, average, and not so smart kids with ADD there. I think it close-minded to say that everyone with ADD is less than those of us with ADD. In fact, I think that is what is wrong with the world. People can't see past our issues to recognize the good in us all.
Hi all :)
Thank you for your answers :)
Personaly I prefer to use "I AM" because I see it more as a personality than a disorder. The ADHD is a big part of me and made me what I am to day. The docters call it a disorder...thats their way to categorice us. To giv us a box to work from.
To say "I HAVE" I feel like its something from outside...something I have not yet accepted to be a part of me, and accepted to be a part of me the rest of my life. I do not yet feel proud by saying "I HAVE". Thats how I feel :)
Its like saying im stupid, I WILL become more stupid. By saying "I HAVE" The ADHD will have difficulties to be intergrated.
Mikkel
Ladies and gentleman. May I have your attention.
Excuse me please not for being obnoxious again.
There is "some" truth in what I said.
(how much ?
)There are people without ADD who also are very inventive and creative. I just don't feel non-ADDers are necessarily the better human beings than us Da Freaky types. Non Adders can serve a greater purpose too.
Hmmmm ............................................................ ..
....let me think.......thinking.....thinking....thinking. I'll let you know.
There. I provoked. Oh goody. Now I feel better.
OK I got it. Non ADDers are there to keep us in line.
(the brain washing line ?)
to keep us from crossing the LINE ?
to make us keep track of the time ?
to make sure we follow the sign ?
to guarantee our minds free of grime ?
so that we may exhibit manners sublime ?
because free thinking may be labeled a crime ?
Airplanes are a good place to write stupid poetry and then firmly throw them away. My collected works are mainly on the vomit bags of Lufthansa and Ryan's hair. oopsy daisy, I mean Ryan Air.
worldisround39057.2326388889 Everyone has a purpose and I am glad actually that not everyone has ADD.
worldisround wrote:
Attention deficit disorder is totally the wrong name for our state of being. I hope they change this title. It is inaccurate and insulting. I feel it is quite the reverse and that the non-ADDER's are actually suffering from this. They quite often do not see the whole picture and cannot see beyond their way of doing things and are very short-sighted if you really think about it. This may explain the sorry state of the world right now.I do not see much benefit in us being outnumbered by them. And now they want to drug us to be more like THEM. ( baaah,baaah )
Hey it just sounds good !!!
It's like admiring a new boob job in the mirror THAT WENT TERRIBILY WRONG. I have to talk them pretty to convince myself the money spent was worth it.
No , I am pretty serious about my feelings and hunches.
Just not sure because it never happened.( ADDers RULE-ing that is.) or do they ?
Talking to myself again.
Miss
is keeping me company in me M-ADD brain at least for now.worldisround39055.6823032407 I just want everyone to like me !!
When will I ever give up this impossible task ?
I need someone. Someone very special.
Someone who won't press charges.
worldisround39055.6578819444 Hello World.
yes.
that's really it.
... reality from P.K.Dick.
evolution away from the silliness of nonADD.
and ADDers ruling ->- governance by forum ->- kinda' like the first few fora out there ... way back in our history - before the Internet, computers, electricity and perhaps even Mr Potato Head.
:-)
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[QUOTE=worldisround] Attention deficit disorder is totally the wrong name for our state of being. I hope they change this title. It is inaccurate and insulting. I feel it is quite the reverse and that the non-ADDER's are actually suffering from this. They quite often do not see the whole picture and cannot see beyond their way of doing things and are very short-sighted if you really think about it. This may explain the sorry state of the world right now.I do not see much benefit in us being outnumbered by them. And now they want to drug us to be more like THEM. ( baaah,baaah )
Do androids dream of electric sheep ?
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Do androids dream of electric sheep ?
worldisround39053.7494328704What would the world be like if ADDers ruled it ?
OK. The universe.
It would be. BEEN THERE....DONE THAT.
OK.Ruled may be the wrong word ?
Integrated ?
i consider myself to be ADD ---
it is the way i perceive the world - an 'addled' way.
and i know it can be a right pain in the butt - but i don't recognise it as a disorder either. i would prefer to view it as a gift. difficult to access but certainly a gift if only i could manage to access it!!!!
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when im talking about my son i say "he HAS adhd". i dont know what other people say
i will watch this post and find out
*AM*... ADD is synonymous with mind ...
HAVE makes it sound like a disorder
:-)
... funnily enough I replied to this question a few years back.
Question posed by a then moderator on the ADD site - she was also from Scandinavia (Sweden).
If you ever come across the site (there're only a couple of other popular ADD sites out there in cyberspace) ... her posting and real name 'Gabriela.'
SB_UK39053.5465046296adhd is a disorder as stated in its name ... there's been a history of change in the name for adhd - a while back it was 'minimal brain dysfunction' ...
... the name is nothing more than that ...
... growing evidence suggests adhd is not a disorder but associates with a disorder ...
- here's an example - a tall man living in a world of short people.
A terribly sore head from hitting it on his friends' ceilings.
We're calling ADHD a disorder in much the same way that we'd say that the tall guy has a sore head - because his height is a disorder.
Rephrased - 'it sure looks like it - but it is - just as certainly - *not*'
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[quote]I'm in an X-men movie. You know the whole mutunts rising up against normal people thing.[/quote]