Adderall and ADD | ADHD Information
It's posts like this that make me like this place...thanks for writing it. I was diagnosed a few months ago and I'm in my 40's. I started looking into ADD a few years ago and said "this is me". It angers me sometimes that I wasn't helped a long time ago.
I hated school and my parents were so unaware of my problem. Of course, my self esteem lacks because I was always told that I was "lazy; a dreamer; always take the easy way out; overly sensitive; never finish anything; etc.
Come to find out that my brother has it and it runs in my mothers family.
I'm finally being treated and I'm looking forward to a better life.
Younger, but in the same boat, found out at 28. Locking you keys in your car so many times that the locksmith calls you everyday, just to check.
Yeah... I used to forget, too. I was diagnosed at 13... I'm 16, now. My teachers used to write reports about how lazy I am, how badly I needed medication, etc. They were right about the needing medication part. I got it, and I love it. :) One 40mg pill a day, and I feel like I can do one task after the other with perfect focus. When I was starting it, however, I tripped balls... O.o But anyway, I'm happy to hear that Adderall and XR are working for people... I'm not alone. Boy, am I in the right place! I've been going to another board lately, but this one is structured so differently - like us. Or NOT like me - it IS structured, I am NOT.
Started to take Adderall about a year or two ago. Now i'm thinking perhaps Xr would help better since I always forget to take another in the afternoon & totally lose any focus I start out with.
I was officially diagnosed at 40 with ADD. I got through school with C's. I hated school. I could read by the age of 3 and was tested recently and found out I have an IQ of 131. I started regular Adderall in Feb 2002. I now take Adderall XR 40mg per day. I went back to college (for the 3rd time). So far I have earned all A's and one B. I cannot tell you what a difference it has made. My dad says "a pill did all this?" ADD/ADHD is genetic. I did my geneology for my dad's mom's side of the family and found out what I had originally suspected, we all have ADD/ADHD. I found a website that talks about the positive aspects of ADD/ADHD. I believe that it is not a disorder, we are just wired differently. The ADD/ADHD person is the explorer, adventurer, discoverer. The American school system is geard toward the farmer, settler type of person. The child is not the problem. ADD/ADHD kids are usually extremely intelligent. The schools and teachers are not willing to adapt to the highly intelligent, creative children who don't fit the mold that the system says they should. I believe medication is a tool. There are lots of other issues involved. Home schooling is a good alternative. Putting pressure on the local school board to address the needs of gifted/add/adhd children in addition to learning disabled kids is needed as well. Here is the web site for the "good stuff" about add/adhd. www.borntoexplore.org.
If I can say anything to parents of add/adhd kids is that don't make them feel like there is somethingn wrong with them. They aren't the problem. My parents tried for years to get my teachers to help me, but the would not.
Anyway, off my soapbox.