NELDY

http://www.adhdnews.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2651&K W=when+born

have  a look at this post - are you saying in this reply that you had adhd and depression when you were born?

That is completely Way out there - does that not make you wonder about what the hell the Dr's were thinking.  It is very surprising to me that a dr can look at  a newborn baby and make a diagnosis of ADHD or depression.

Doesnt it make you wonder that if you were labelled so young, does that have an effect on what people treat you like since birth and how that if your parents - thought of you as depressesed/ADHD since birth that it could have created these issues in you, simply due to expectations from parents!

I would investigate this if I was you and try to understand why the DR would make this assumption at such a young age, you may find interesting facts about yourself that you never knew.

But I am flabbergasted personally at this concept. and find the Dr completed discredited in my own mind, until further evidence is provided.

ya...tell me about it...its been hard to deal with adhd and depression...but hey u know wat...I think I have done pretty good....its not been an easy life for me...never had a mom or dad around...basicly looked after myself.....my moms friends gave me my pills....and now at 17 I have a great bf now...we have been together for 6 months....I am in grade 11 which I never thought I would ever live to see this day...b/c I wanted to kill myself...life was really hard...and now that i am 17 my life has been much better..ya know I may not have teen friends but I have adult friends b/c I connect better with adults then i do with teens around me that are my age....you see I may only be 17 but I act as though i am an adult...to some ppl this makes no sense but to me it does..I think about my education, my kids and how I would treat them when i had them....you know this thinking is weird for a kid my age but I think about the future...lol...anyways thats a little about me..lol..

Ur pal neldy

Neldy I was engaged at 16 and married at 19, 2 kids by 23 and 4 kids by 30. 

It is not that strange, when you consider how young girls are married in other societys.

I dont have any regrets, however I believe my life and my childrens lives could have been much better if I had waited and established myself financially (keep that in mind)

And us Adults like you too.  I was always like you, never had teen friends, just could not get into it.  Never missed it either. 

Tried to night club at 27 - Hopeless!

Some of us were born adults. Probably to raise our parents.

Ya, that does seem a little absurd, I've read about alot of cases of ADHD over the last couple of days...And I have never came across anything saying that you can diagonsed a baby to have ADHD, i mean yea some babies don't cry and there are the few that, on occasions tend to not be happy alot. But you just can't judge a baby so young.

Maybe your dr, was a pyschic *j.k* and thinks he/she saw your future and thought to go ahead and put you on the med's... But I think that maybe you were judged wrongfully... Unless.... I doubt it... But maybe they can see such a thing in a child at a young age. I didn't think it was possible. I mean I was Diagonsed at I think 6 or 7 and i'm now 16. so....I don't know.

Maybe when you were born, you puked and pooed on the dr and he held it against ya.   

Neldy, you seem pretty grounded to me - !!!!

I noticed that you said you were diagnosed as a newborn with ADHD and depression in one of your previous posts. - How can this be?

What does a depressed baby look like.  I am interested in your story, as I find you fascinating.  But a little worried about what has happened to you at such a tender age.