Famous Peole with ADD/ADHD | ADHD Information
http://www.adhdrelief.com/famous.html
Here is the link I think I may have slowed down the board...so you can go there..sorry
CreativeCrazy38411.9127777778Actually I was raised on A. A. Milnes Winnie the Pooh (with the A. E. Shepard illustrations) and When We Were Very Young. "James, James, Morrison, Morrison, Weatherby George Deupree ?) Took great care of his mother, tho he was only three. ....... Don't ever go down to the end of the town, unless you go down with me!" Memory for exact words never was very good, tho. But also watched the original Mickey Mouse Club, and I didn't fare worse for it.GypsyWomyn38426.5308101852
I thought Ozzy Osbourne was Dyslexic. I remember watching VH1 behind the music and it explained how he bounced around from boarding school to boarding school because they thought he was subpar intelligence, not knowing about his dyslexia. Anyone else see that? Maybe he had both. 
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I thought Ozzy Osbourne was Dyslexic. I remember watching VH1 behind the music and it explained how he bounced around from boarding school to boarding school because they thought he was subpar intelligence, not knowing about his dyslexia. Anyone else see that? Maybe he had both.
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He did. He says though, that in those days you were just considered 'thick'.
[QUOTE=Otago]especially if you are reading this list in the your cubicle instead of being a productive cog.
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Well, Mr. Otago...I think I am falling in love with you...with your charming and gentlemanly like disposition. I am not sure I could ever break away from you once we met! LOL
What if I don't have a cubicle? I prefer a tree house...what is your thoughts on a living in a tree house? Any reply you have must not contain the word monkey or any of it's kind.
By the way what part of of the UK are you from or where in England do you live you old cog?
Once you recover from your infestus oppuganant effringere I will officially say welcome.....unless you continue with sollictudinem magis. -ta ta for now! CC
Nests of hornets ... Cum grano salis ... This is JUST my opinion - a lot of these people qua people simply do not interest me. OK, I like Mozart, Yeats and Carlyle - and I'll wager I am the only one here who has read all of Carlyle. OK, lists of these kind are to make us feel good or something ... if Einstein could do it, the so can I, and there is nothing wrong with feeling good. But, I have no idea if half the people on the list have/had ADHD, and some on the same names come up on the "famous people with Asperger's syndrome" lists. It's a wonder they actually got out of bed in the morning
How could someone not find more than one to admire? Otago, I'm sorry, but you must be very narrow-minded. I'm not judging, just feeling sorry for you.
Not to sound defensive, but if I was NARROW
minded, I wouldn't be here.
The criteria for judging the following people are difficult to say the least: Bell, Hans Christian Anderson, Ludwig van, Burton, Carlyle, Carnegie, Carroll, Cushing, da Vinci, Faraday, Franklin, Galileo, Handel, Johnson,Merriweather Lewis, Lincoln, Maxwell, Mozart, Nasser, Newton, Nostradamus, Pasteur, Poe. Rachmaninov, Rodin, Sadat, Socrates, Thoureau, Tolstoy, Vinny van, Verne, Woody Wilson, Bros Wright, Yeats.
The following are quite modestly talented, as are the most of us: Anderson, Bancroft, Bradshaw, Burns, Carrey,Cher, Crosby, John Denver, Glover, Gold, Goldberg, Hardin, Hartley, Mariel Hemingway,Jenner, Johnson X2, Jordan, Kidd, Lewis, Lougainis, Ozzy - how could they tell?, Rickenbaker, Rose, Ruth, Ryan, Smith, Smothers, Somers,Stallone, Jackie Stewart, Tomba, Wagner, Williams, Winkler. Some have a measure of accomlishment in their respective fiels (as do most of us) and some do not - think Sylvester Stallone.
The following fall into the category of "compleat bastards": Disney - oh, no! not Uncle Walt. Look. IMESHO, Disney robs us of imagination - it is so much better to have read A. A. Milnes Winnie the Pooh (with the A. E. Shepard illustrations) than to have watched one frame of the Disney version, ditto Lewis Carroll (with the Tenille illustrations), or Kenneth Grahame, etc, etc. I'll give him 101 Dalmations, although the book was better.
Edison: good at corralling other people's ideas, industrial parks, research teams, cubicles - is this getting close to anyone's vision of hell, especially if you are reading this list in the your cubicle instead of being a productive cog. See also Henry Ford.
The Bros. Kennedy: machine politics goes national. Bobby got won his spurs in the company of McCarthy, Nixon and Roy Cohn.
Hearst, Rockerfeller (JD) and Carnegie (in his earlier years) were no respecters of persons - bosses from hell X 100.
Socrates: Shock! Horror! Without him and the villian of the piece, Descartes, we wouldn't be in the fix that we are in ... I'd have Socrates drinking hemlock in the opening lines of the Euthyphro.
Westmoreland and Patton were (like Immanuel Kant) very rarely stable.
Von Braun: Oh yes, the space race, the wonders of modern technology. That only came about because his first love of obliterating London was brought to a premature end. Did the creative side of his ADHD lead to his rocket science, or the starving and beating to death (with shovels) of slave workers under his supervision at Peenemunde. The thing is, if Hitler (and I suppose it is possible), Stalin, Eichmann (a good contender for hyperfocussing) had ADHD, would they make the list?
Lighten up. Laugh a little. Watch less television. The world already puts too much emphasis on "fully-functioning" frontal lobes.
Wow,,, you are telling us to lighten up ?
Otago, you are a character! 
Wow,,, you are telling us to lighten up ?
Actually, I was talking to myself. It's a habit. That and staring at walls.
Hey, I love this list!
Thanks for sharing! I find it hard to believe that someone couldn't find at least a few people on that list that they liked, or respected in some way! I mean come on,,, Einstien, Steven Spielberg, Ansel Atams,,, the Fonz!
Steven Spielberg - makes total sense. The man is a genius at what he does, and he is famous for trying new things. He's also very sensitive to criticism. Sound familiar?
They all have such imagination, talent, creativity, dare-to-be-different, thinking "out of the box." They all contributed so much to the human race, if not only for enjoyment.
Some of my favorites are Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, President Kennedy, Leonardo DeVinci, Jules Verne, Dwight Eisenhower --
but best of all...WALT DISNEY!!
I mean, what would the world be like without his movies, his theme parks, his genius? I can't even imagine, but he sure could!!!! GypsyWomyn38425.871875[QUOTE=Otago] Lists like these are a lot of bollocks. Besides, other than Beethoven there is no one I particularly like. [/QUOTE]
Making a generalized statement like the aforementioned Otago... without the proper historical background on each person is BOLLOCKS!!!!
I posted this list to give a boost to some of us here who were feeling down about the ADHD thing....try and play nicely on the playground with your friends and not hurt their feelings! (I am sure you heard that a bunch as a child you should have listened!!!!!!)
Lists like these are a lot of bollocks. Besides, other than Beethoven there is no one I particularly like.Otago, you remind me of the episode of "Cheers" where Frazer goes off on a rant of how there are no more heroes left in the world. He scorches politicians, sports stars, etc. and then bemoans how the youth of the world have no one to look up to anymore. (Cue Sam Malone walking in to the bar with 4 young women. "Hey guys, meet my date." The bar flies begin chanting "Sammy, Sammy, Sammy).
Dead horses for the flogging thereof ...
Actuallly, I wouldn't mind if Einstein (about whom and ADHD there was an article in a recent Wall Street journal), Yeats or Lewdie Van all had it. I wish the likes of Shakespeare, Dante, Heraclitus and Chris Marlowe (no kidding) without a shadow of a doubt had it. I wish I didn't, but if it is the way that the universe is so oriented, it would be nice not to lumped together with Sylvester Stallone, Suzanne Sommers, or Tom Cruise. Or even Abe Lincoln ... remember the suspension of habeas corpus in Maryland. Not a nice thing to do.
How do you know you have it?... Documented history etc.?...we could go further and say how do we know any of us have it?...maybe it doesn't exist?...maybe the world doesn't exist?.... or maybe we are mere mortals living in a universe under the thumb nail of a giant?.......Let us ponder our deepest thought.
As for the Royal...there is long documented personality, medical and journals ....in depth secret behaviour was kept was placed in ink by assistants to the bed chamber re: kings ... history was documented...go to Burkes Landed Gentry and see how much history you can find on people that make Lincoln and Ludwig look like mere babes....this type of documentation is not as absurd as you fellows make it seem.
Personally, I don't think that there is ADHD in a preCartesian universe (no kidding), and were I to have access to the 17th century, Rene might find himself falling in the Thirty Years war. The subsequent centuries *might* be a little easier for 5% of the pupulation.
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Hi Thank you for the link to that list of famous people my sone is 9 and has ADHD and asperger's syndrome(mild) he loves baseball and wheni showed him that list with Babe Ruth and Nolan Ryan on he got so excited and said he couldnt wait for baseball season to start again!!
Thought youd like to know you made a child struggling with this ailment very happy today!!!!
I agree with otago, without even looking at the list. I have to agree with Otago on one point - all these people had/have adhd?
Who diagnosed them? At least long-dead people like Lincoln and Ludwig Van?
TR!
[QUOTE=The Resistance!]I have to agree with Otago on one point - all these people had/have adhd?
Who diagnosed them? At least long-dead people like Lincoln and Ludwig Van?
TR!
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Ok again those with "lack there of" open minds. Shall we revisit the obvious? The aforementioned gentlemen&n bsp;all exhibited the traits recorded in documented history of their lives.
How do you know you have it?... Documented history etc.?...we could go further and say how do we know any of us have it?...maybe it doesn't exist?...maybe the world doesn't exist?.... or maybe we are mere mortals living in a universe under the thumb nail of a giant?.......Let us ponder our deepest thought.
As for the Royal...there is long documented personality, medical and journals ....in depth secret behaviour was kept was placed in ink by assistants to the bed chamber re: kings ... history was documented...go to Burkes Landed Gentry and see how much history you can find on people that make Lincoln and Ludwig look like mere babes....this type of documentation is not as absurd as you fellows make it seem.
I don't know about all of those on that list, but I do think there's a case for extreme mathematicians and probably cosmological physicists, or a lot of others that seem 'idiot-savant'.I would definitely not argue Einstein. Or Newton (he was so hyperfocused that he never had sex and, ultimately, hole himself up in his study and wrote Principia Mathematica in 2 years, often forgetting to eat. Oh yeah, and he had made that connection about the planets' elliptical orbits years before but forgot or misplaced it). I'm surprised Steven Hawking isn't on the list, axly. He may be (ok, IS) a genious, but he was totally bored with school and, really, only began his career when ALS hit him and forced him to sit down. I dunno. It's hard to tell with someone who's IQ is >200. Maybe he just figured he had it in the bag and could excell at the last minute. Then there are those like Paul Erdos. There have been plenty of people who never had the benefit of meds or diagnosis. They probably just lived really difficult, driven lives.
Then there are the Elliott Smiths who have (/had) access to support (or at least meds) and, for all his beautiful, ingenious and powerful thoughts and music, focus(ed) on nothing but coping with ADD. The difference? ES never was ok with himself. But the world is different now. It's not really possible to hyperfocus for a living. Everything is a "collaborative" effort. ES couldn't wrestle control of the production of his music away from the record companies he dealt with and after he was recognized for the Good Will Hunting soundtrack, they were all over him. (tangient. sorry.)
A lot of my favorite people have classic characteristics of ADD or OCD or... something.
I think a lot of people are just strapped down by their overactive frontal lobes... Give me a fat temporal lobe! (or, maybe, if I could just have a frontal lobe that I could toggle on and off...?)
Dali is on this list. I can stare at his paintings for hours. I always find something new.[QUOTE=Otago]
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Don't flog the horses....give them a good full frontal SNOG!!!
Sorry couldn't resist!
where did you get that list of people?