Success story | ADHD Information

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

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now THATs a great response, and something i needed right now in my life. i thank you

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.

So being that an actor is my number one dream... to go for it [QUOTE=Dan R]

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

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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 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

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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