What do you love most about having ADHD? | ADHD Information
that it's treatableI suppose there are some positives to ADHD, but nothing that I wouldn't give up to have my time over again and have the chance to lead a 'normal' life.I know we all have struggles in daily life with having ADHD, but I have to admit, for the most part I love a lot of the qualities that come with it!
I love:
-that I am spontaneous and always up for a new adventure
-I have a zillion interests to keep me occupied at any given second of the day 
-I see things that people don't - the beautiful scenery that passes a lot of people by in their daily lives, the way the clouds form and twist and turn etc etc etc
-that little things get me excited and make me happy
-that I'm a child at heart (which is great when you have two small children )
-I'm intuitive, which I think a lot of us with ADHD are, and usually my intuition is bang on, if I would just focus long enough to pay attention to it 
-I have great imagination!
Now don't get me wrong, there are downfalls, but when you know what you are up against it makes life so much easier!
So what do you guys love about having ADHD? 
I love that I look at the world differently... it can be frustrating sometimes though because other people you try to share it with don't get it... but it does sorta make you feel like you're smarter than everybody else.
The quick witted, able to speak on the fly ability that comes with it. I have talked myself out of some really hairy situations before!
Course, how bout all those times when I cant seem to come up with the right word to tell someone my name- 2 extremes average out to normal, right??!!??WOW!!
You guys are amazing me!! I am really glad I found you.
I can relate to CC and the rest...I'm artistic, imaginative, I'm always multitasking, am very extraverted, act like a kid with my children, I like extreme sports, I always have numerous art projects going at once.
I can't stand anything routine or monotonous. I am spur of the moment all the way!
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I love the way I look at life...I love my creativeness...I love my extremly fast processing speed...I love my style...I love my big big dreams...I love knowing that in a world that is "normal," I am different.
However,
I do not like...that I should be studying for 4 exams next week and I am on the computer looking up less important stuff...
I beleive it was Henry David Thoreau that once said something like "In life there are two roads diverged in the woods, I, I took the one less traveled and it has made all the difference."
What I love about my ADHD is that if there is something really boring going on I always have something else going on in my head.Unfortunatly it's not good for wen i am in class.I don't get bored with repetition, I can watch one movie 20 times, maybe that's because I don't pay attention and miss something...lol.But since I've been living with ADHD a lot of my ADHD tendencies I always thought were normal.I sometimes wish I did'nt have it. It can make life so frustration, but my mind is always on the go.Not too many things I can say, but I wouldn't ever change having it.I feel special in a way. We think differently than other people and sometimes I feel that is a gift of some sort.
Happy Valentines Day!!!
I love ADD because I am supposed to be walking out the door in 5 minutes and I am laughing and reading all of these posts....... I will make it there soon.
Have a great day!
I think I'm with the Scarygreen giant on this one, living with ADHD is like living with a ball and chain attached to your leg.
You can join in the great race we call life with everybody else, yet you are carrying a burden that ensures you will find the race far more difficult than your fellow runners..
The fact that this ball and chain is invisible to everyone else only makes things worse - 'lazy', they hiss, and 'loser'. And if, like myself, you have been unaware of the burden for most of your life, you eventually accept the labels of 'lazy', and 'loser', because you have no other explanation for your constant lack of success.
I always thought I must be lazy - the problem wasI just didn't know how not to be 'lazy', a loser, and all the other things I have been called over the years. 40+ years of this and self esteem takes a major hit.
The ADHD diagnosis hasn't really helped - it's just made me angry because of all the wasted years, and the thought what might have been.
[QUOTE=ChaoticCanadian]I know we all have struggles in daily life
with having ADHD, but I have to admit, for the most part I love a lot
of the qualities that come with it! 
I love:
-that I am spontaneous and always up for a new adventure
-I have a zillion interests to keep me occupied at any given second of the day
-I see things that people don't - the beautiful scenery that passes a lot of people by in their daily lives, the way the clouds form and twist and turn etc etc etc
-that little things get me excited and make me happy
-that I'm a child at heart (which is great when you have two small children )
-I'm intuitive, which I think a lot of us with ADHD are, and usually
my intuition is bang on, if I would just focus long enough to pay
attention to it
-I have great imagination!
Now don't get me wrong, there are downfalls, but when you know what you are up against it makes life so much easier!
So what do you guys love about having ADHD?
What do I LOVE about having ADHD??? NOTHING!
I also have those qualities that you listed and I also think outside the box. And where has that gotten me in life??? Nowhere! I have a crappy boring job and my family thinks I am stupid and lazy.
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[quote]What do I LOVE about having ADHD??? NOTHING!
I also have those qualities that you listed and I also think outside the box. And where has that gotten me in life??? Nowhere! I have a crappy boring job and my family thinks I am stupid and lazy. [/quote]
Wow. :o( I am so sorry you feel that way.
But, you know what?
I have those qualities that I have listed and more, and my entire life up until the end of August, I had no idea I had ADHD, I always knew I was different, and I'll admit, I have felt lazy, unmotivated, stupid and many, many times felt like a failure in my life. I have never graduated high school, and really haven't finished much that I have started and I jump from job to job, because I don't settle for crappy boring jobs. So quite honestly, ADHD hasn't gotten me anywhere in my life, *I*, myself, have gotten me everywhere in my life, with perserverance, tenacity and despite the struggles (and trust me there have been A LOT) the willingness to never give up . Because of my ADHD and all my many interests I've learned a lot in just about everything and anything and that has allowed me to get a great job (and other great jobs in the past), making a very significant incomes, that most college graduates make. For sure it has been a roller coaster ride for me and everyone who is close to me, but I'm not going to let something like ADHD get in my way and squash my dreams, just the same as a lot of people with disabilities don't let it (their disability) get in their way. Rick Hansen is a perfect example, here is a man in a wheel chair with no use of his legs and he wheeled himself around the world in his wheelchair - which is more than most people with two working legs could ever do.
So, I'm sorry your family thinks you are stupid and lazy and I am sorry that you seem to believe that perception they have of you. And trust me, I am NOT throwing you a pity party at all here, but I'm willing to be that you aren't stupid and lazy at all and I really hope that despite having ADHD you will still find a way to eventually find your niche in life and be happy.
I love -being able to stay like a child...- I love running around the house making arm movements and singing/without my family looking at me strange because they know i am ADHD...-I like vegging and staring at the wall and being able to have a make believe world in my daydream then taking my med and being productive to make that dream world into reality. -being able to talk a mile a min and make sense. -Multitasking ; -Creativity -Seing details that others don't & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; -Photographic Memory
UGggggggggghhhh I have to live with ADHD like it is my life partner so I have learned to love that part of me...
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Many HUGS FOR OUR ADHD Personas!!!!