Success story

so i cant seem to find any stories where ones with adhd end up happy and successful, kinda makes ya feel like sh*t

Well, my son is only 10, however, I hope someday to post his adult success story.

There are some success stories with such people as the man who owns the Jet Blue airlines, he is ADHD. THey wrote about him in PEOPLE magazine. Very interesting story. And we all know that Ty from Home Makeover has adhd.

I think are success stories they just aren't posted.

[QUOTE=Mikey]so i cant seem to find any stories where ones with adhd end up happy and successful, kinda makes ya feel like sh*t[/QUOTE]

Good heavens man--what do YOU read???

Many successful actors, comedians, computer wizards, athletes etc. etc. have ADHD including:

[my personal fav} Lee Evans the comedian--google him and spend your day laughing.

Famous People with ADHD

Notice that these are all people who think "outside the box". There are also a lot of very creative people. Sometimes being a little "different" or not fitting into the norm, can work to your advantage. We hope this encourages you.

Actors
Bill Cosby	Jim Carey	Harry Belafonte
Cher	Kirk Douglas	Ann Bancroft
Dustin Hoffman	Robin Williams	Suzanne Somers
George Burns	Steve McQueen	Tracey Gold
George C. Scott	Sylvester Stallone	Whoopi Goldberg
Henry Winkler	Will Smith	Lindsay Wagner
James Stewart	Tom Smothers	Danny Glover

Artists
Pablo Picasso	Vincent Van Gogh	Ansel Adams

Athletes
Bruce Jenner	Pete Rose	Magic Johnson
Jackie Stewart	Babe Ruth	Micael Jordan
Nolan Ryan	Jason Kidd	Greg Louganis

Inventors
Leonardo Da Vinci	Orville & Wilber Wright	Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Edison	William Wrigley	Alexander Graham Bell

Scholars
Sir Issac Newton	Galileo	Albert Einstein

Statesmen
Anwar Sadat	Abraham Lincoln	John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill	Prince Charles	Dwight Eisenhauer
Robert F. Kennedy	Woodrow Wilson	Nelson Rockafeller

Entrepreneurs
Walt Disney	FW Woolworth	Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford	Malcolm Forbes	William Randolph Hearst

List TWO:

Albert Einstein
Ansel Adams
Ann Bancroft
Beethoven
Alexander Graham Bell
James Boswell
Sir Richard Francis Burton
President George Bush (both)
Admiral Richard Byrd
Lord Byron
Thomas Carlyle
Andrew Carnegie
Jim Carrey
Gen. H. Norman Charles
Thomas Chatterton
Samuel Clemens
Samuel T. Coleridge
Christopher Columbus
Tom Cruise
Leonardo da Vinci
Salvador Dali
Emily Dickinson
Patty Duke
Thomas Edison
Albert Einstein
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ernest & Marel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Edward Fitzgerald
Malcomb Forbes
Henry Ford
Rick Fox
Benjamin Franklin
Robert Frost
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Tom Gainsborough
Galileo
Bill Gates
Susan Hampshire
Handel
Mariette Hartley
Stephen Hawking
Wm Randolph Hearst
Ernest Hemingway
Bill Hewlett
Alfred Hitchcock
Dustin Hoffman

.More Famous people with ADHD...

Thomas Jefferson
Bruce Jenner
"Magic" Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Michael Jordan
Carl Jung, M.D.
King Karl XI of Sweden
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Jason Kidd
Evel Knievel
Bill Lear
John Lennon
Lewis and Clark
Carl Lewis
Abraham Lincoln
Luci Baines Johnson Nugent
Louis Pasteur
Gen. George Patton
H. Ross Perot

Gen. Norman Schwartzkopf
George C. Scott
George Bernard Shaw
Tom Smothers
Socrates
Steven Spielberg
Sylvester Stallone
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jackie Stewart
James Stewart
Richard C. Strauss
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Nicolai Tesla
Henry David Thoreau
Leo Tolstoy
Ted Turner
Vincent Van Gogh
Jules Verne
Werner von Braun
Lindsay Wagner
Mike Wallace
General Westmoreland
Weyerhauser Family
Walt Whitman
Jamie Williams
Robin Williams
Tennessee Williams
Woodrow Wilson
Henry Winkler
Stevie Wonder
Virginia Woolf
F.W. Woolworth
Wright Brothers
Vince Lombardi
Robert Lowell
James Clark Maxwell
Steve McQueen
Mozart
David H. Murdock
Napoleon
Nasser
Isaac Newton
Jack Nicholson
Anthony Hopkins
Howard Hughes
Nostradamus

Edgar Allan Poe
Cole Porter
Elvis Presley
Dan Rather
Buddy Rich
Eddie Rickenbacker
Guy Ritchie
Joan Rivers
John D. Rockefeller
Nelson Rockefeller
Pete Rose
John Ruskin
Nolan Ryan
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anwar Sadat
Pierre Salinger
Charles Schulz
Robert Schumann
Pablo Picasso
Charles Schwab

It's not that one HAS it--the question is: "What do I DO with it??!!"

FEEL BETTER NOW?

PS: Google is your friend when discouraged

MetisRebel39379.3992361111now THATs a great response, and something i needed right now in my life. i thank you [QUOTE=Mikey]now THATs a great response, and something i needed right now in my life. i thank you[/QUOTE]

Thanks

It is debatable whether or not some of those people had ADD. However, there a bunch of very talented and successful people who definitely have it. Of course there's Neeleman of JetBlue (who is unmedicated, btw), and Michael Phelps who won six or seven gold medals at the last Olympics (also unmedicated). The journalist Clarence Page also has it, and uses stimulant meds.

It is really tough to harness the genius of ADD. It can be done though, apparently.

[QUOTE=Dan R]

It is really tough to harness the genius of ADD. It can be done though, apparently.

[/QUOTE]

I have to agree that some on the list, particularly historical figures, may be questionable. And I definitely don't agree with Van Gogh since he suffered most symptoms of walking Autism or bi-polar, not or schizophrenia ADHD. However, I do know that a number of comedians, actors, computer wizards etc. have been studied and diagnosed.
So being that an actor is my number one dream... to go for it

I like to think that I am having success in my life. I am 34, very happily married to a wife who understands me and supports me. I have a beautiful daughter. I am active in my local church, work full time and have a part time job. I go to college taking three classes per semester and have a B/B+ average. I have 60 credits done, and am going for a triple major in History, Philosophy, and Political Science. I plan on getting my Bachelor Degree with the triple major, then going on to get my Masters & PhD in American History. After that I am debating whether to go onto Law School. I plan on being a college professor. My wife is a stay home wife & mother and we are going to homeschool our daughter. I take med’s for the ADHD, and it helps. I recently purchased an ipod and listen to it all night at work. I keeps me occupied and I learn a lot. By having a triple major, I never have to worry about getting bored, because I just switch my focus to a different subject. I have had two IQ test and I scored 138 & 139, and I was nervous, so I rushed and finished both test in less then half the allotted time. I was in training to be a preacher, but had to drop it because of time constraints, but I may pick it back up after finishing my secular schooling.

suc·cess (sək-sĕs') pronunciation
n.

The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted: attributed their success in business to hard work.

Many of us loose sight of what success really means. One does not have to achieve fame and fortune to be successful.

Joe, not only have you found success, you also a fortunate enough to be able to recognize that.

I have lots of success stories. :)

twirly1

I don't have a "success" story, because the tale hasn't finished yet. I do
have a "succeeding story," however.

After several years of flailing about, self-medicating with alcohol, and
causing my wife lots of stress, I got diagnosed with ADHD, started
medication (which helps), counseling, and learning the skills to cope with
the problems of ADHD. Now, things are moving forward - I (and my wife)
can see future success on the horizon, rather than feeling trapped in an
aimless, daily struggle.

My wife got a new job (tenure-track, higher upward mobility), and I have
a couple promising options (knock-on-wood) that give us hope for more
"success" than "survival" in the future.

An issue many ADHDers have is the inability to build "up" from small
victories. After an accomplishment, I often feel a let down and have
trouble building small successes into larger ones. But celebrate the little
victories, because those are how big accomplishments are achieved.
Good
luck!
-ppascal39464.4558564815

Hello everyone,

I am 23, was recently diagnosed with ADHD and still managed to put myself through a public honors college in four years. Through blood, sweat, tears and dedication to hard work, I have also managed to establish a strong professional background in scientific research through National Institutes of Health. I am now pursuing a career in medicine and working on head and neck squamous cell carcinoma research. I hope that when i get on my meds (preferably Adderall XR) I can do even better in graduate school.

My advisor (big guy in breast and prostate cancer research) at the National Cancer Institute-NIST for two years was also ADHD. The man could fly through walls because he was so impatient.

Frederick

Is success money? I used to be in sales management ($150-350K per year)
with all the stuff everyone else seemed to want. I worked my way up from a
sales rep and had anything my family wanted. I didn't even have a
bachelor's degree!

I gave it up to follow what I saw that God wanted me to do.

"I gave it up to follow what I saw that God wanted me to do."

Which is? "I gave it up to follow what I saw that God wanted me to do."

Which is?

Pascal- that sounds like a success story to me! I watched my brother struggle for years with undx'ed adhd, and he too self- medicated w/alcohol- getting help was hard for him, and quitting drinking even harder. I know how hard you must have worked to get to where you are now, and if you are feeling that things are looking up then you have certainly been successful.

Starting from the time I was 16, my dad made sure that I knew that health and happiness are the two most important things in life. Growing up with a brother with adhd and a step-sister with bi-polar, it wasn't hard to see the truth in that.

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