"Grandiose Thinking" | ADHD Information
Inflated thinking (overconfident, or even sometimes arrogant). But mostly just "unrealistic expectations," although I'm sure some do actually fill those expectations, but they're usually pretty extravagant expectations. (It's often referred to when describing manic episodes of bi-polar.) But I don't think you need to be bi-polar to have grandiose thoughts.I think it's grandiose thinking of me to believe I'll ever own a house like my parents did as I was growing up. Not with the economy as it is now!
GypsyWomyn38454.7365740741This is something I have read about as a symptom in some of the ad/hd tests....
Exactly what is grandiose thinking?
Is that the thinking that you can do impossible things?
Is that also related to "holding on to your oppinion and not listening to others" (ie, the adhder things he can jump off the roof and fly, you tell him that he can't, and he knows that he can't fly, it is unreasonable to think this, but you he still holds on the the idea that he can fly)???
Who has experienced this?
sonya_h38454.543275463According to the dictionary it says grandiose means exaggerated.
True, my thoughts are in excess, dunno bought exaggerated. But I do daydream about off the wall stuff on occasion. Just silly things like winning the lotto.
I think it's kind of like idealism in a way. Like making big dreams or plans that you can't possible fulfill.Like instead of saying I'll have a house on the beach one day you say I'll live in a giant mansion on my own island with monkey butlers.
I know I do it. This one time I had planned on making a headboard for my bed. We have tons of woodworking tools in the garage and I love working with my hands and being active so it was a good plan. Of course before even starting I decided why just make a headboard, why not make an entire new bedroom set. I thought it's stupid to pay a ton of money when really all you need to pay for is the lumber. My god I never have to my furniture again. I was thrilled. I quickly went on ebay and bought books on how to upolster furnature and a few different woodworking/furnature building books I also saw a book about how to build your own deck so grabbed that one too. I mean if I can build my own furnature I can surley slap a deck together. While waiting for my books to arrive I dreamt of building my own house one day and after that possibly making a living building and selling my own hand made furniture. lol
I ask myself still to this day what I was thinking. I've never built anything before I barely ever used the tools in the garage just kind of played with them with pieces of scrap wood laying around. Needless to say the books came I went out to the garage and built a few things that I don't think a stranger would be able to identify as furniture. Of course I got pissed off that I was not a master woodworker like I thought I would be and that was the end of my furnature career. lol I never even brought the books back inside.
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I know Grandiose Thinking... that's when I think an entire program up in my head with all the classes, subclasses, variables and so on... and then when I come home, i write it down and compile it... and it just works... I program i Java, a programming language... and my way is not normal at all... I'v been called a mastermind so many times 
Yes, that is precisely what is meant by "grandiose" thinking. It means you make these big huge plans and for some reason a part of you thinks it is actually possible to do them, when in reality, they take a LOT more work than you had bargained for.
I too have dreamt of building my own stuff - I see patterns for woodworking projects and I think to myself "I can do that!" Then I REALLY look at them and get overwhelmed.
But I do love to build things - as long as all the pieces are pre-cut and all the holes are pre-drilled. LOL!
Well, i think my husband suffers from this. the thinking that "I can fly" thing was just an example, but as you can imagine, this can be a problem when it comes to more realistic things...
like, say for instance, my husband wants to start a business. He tends to over exaggerate the GOOD things about the business, and over-glorify them, and then skip over the bad things (he won't listen to anyone trying to tell him what to look out for, or whatever)...this makes it so that he is not well prepared for the downfalls of his doings.....and then when the downfalls come, no matter how minor, he gets discouraged, and wants to drop what he is doing....he does not prepare well. He gets so overly focused on the wonderful things he things he can do.
He does not look at life realistically..
it's starting to make me sick.
i don't think he should quit his job before he knows that his business is going to work...but he is so overly taken by the good points, that he wants to quit his job asap after the business gets a good buck or two coming in...he has not done adequate research on what he's doing...he obsesses over starting his business, he does not talk about anything else.
he won't listen to me..
his ad/hd is running his thoughts on his business....he is not thinking rationally, and he is frightening me...what if it does not work and he has impulsively quit his job?
i'm afraid...
We all know the feeling. However, let's not entirely dismiss these instincts as irrational, or problematic. I have learned a great deal from all the grandiose projects I have started and not finished. Once I wanted to smelt my own iron. I haven't got that far yet, but I did manage to make my own charcoal for the smelting process. It was fun! I once made 3 mud bricks for the mud hut I was going to build. They were surprisingly strong. I've never carved a stone statue, but I have a big stone in my kitchen waiting for the day when I can start. I know what to do cos I've read the book. Grandiose ideas are a big part of getting some fun out of life, and every once in a while you get an idea that you actually can finish and be proud of.I built a very nice lizard habitat for my nile monitor Grendel. It takes up almost a whole room and has built in light fixtures and everying she needs. It's cool! Dream big, but don't be too hard on yourself if you can't finish.
I am guilty of having "big" plans, projects, ideas, etc....then not following through with them. (Like my house, I got a great deal on it, but 70% of the work I needed to do is still not done a year later, LoL. My LR is painted the original color near the ceiling, primer in the middle, and the new color on the bottom...)
From what I have gathered, ADDers have great ideas...it's just the details of getting to the goal that trips us up! But I know when I hyperfocus, I run circles around people...I get more accomplished in a few hours than other people can in a week...and that in itself gives my ego a boost, LoL. I tend to get cocky when I get things done, but I am also hard on myself when I can't focus.
But I also tend to ignore things I am not great at, too. I like to think I'm great at something...so if I try, and I'm not great...I quit. Or if I am great, I quit because it's easy...LoL...
Taag Man...I have to do programming in my job as well...it can be quite tedious but also great when something is finished, LoL.
chicx0r38454.5789699074God,mafiaKiddo- HAHAHAHAHAHA
I do the same thing all the time. The other day I decided that it would be fun to brew my own beer at home. So, I ordered stuff that I have no idea what they are...hydrometers, flasks, carboys, 5 gallon brewing pot, fermentors, 50!!! pounds of yeast...a bunch of books on brewing stuff- from beginner to expert- becasue of course I would stick with it to become an expert.
Seriously, my apartment's not that big.
Then, I thought- if I wind up making some really tasty, original beer, I might as well bottle it all pretty and sell it online.
So, I got a copy of flash and some flash books so that I could learn to make the website that would showcase my own microbrewery (the one that doesnt exist).
I sat down for about an hour trying to animate letters describing the product. Learned how to "motion tween" them and other such things.
It has been a month or so since I got all the stuff, and I have yet to start one brew.
I'm waiting til I have a vcr so I could watch the instructional video instead of reading the books.
[QUOTE=MafiaKiddo] Like instead of saying I'll have a house on the beach one day you say
I'll live in a giant mansion on my own island with monkey butlers. [/QUOTE]
You mean I need to give up my fantasy of living on an island being served tropical drinks by monkey butlers??!!???