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Does anyone else think there is some sort of attraction or connection between ADD people. I work with a woman who is ADD and immediately felt comfortable with her and it was months before I found out she was ADD but we hit off. Another example the president at my past employer and I got along at strange level some sort of mutual respect. He is the poster child for ADD. And what I know about ADD now I expect my exwife was ADD. Or is that because I am more sensitive to the traits/signs?

My husband, when we first met, made me feel SO COMFORTABLE around him.  that was different because I always felt arkward around guys because i knew at some point my ad/hd symptoms would bare themselves suddenly in the WORST WAYS the longer i hung with one particular guy.

but my (future) husband never ended up getting scared away...we got so close that eventually i decided to share with him the fact that I had ad/hd....

He goes, "Are you serious????????? I HAVE THAT TOO!!"

And I knew that was it for us.  No one would be able to understand me the way he did, and several months later, we were married (been married 4 years)....just had our first kid 3 weeks ago.

For me it's not always other ADD people, but perhaps the majority. I instantly can feel a certain way about someone I've just met. Experience tells me to trust it, but those that "pass" are almost instantly very close friends.

Maybe the ones I remember are the ADD ones because they didnt run away thinking I was insane.

I would have to agree there is some kind of connection.  My best friend of over twenty years admitted he was ADD when I mentioned it to him a few months ago that I was.

Thankfully my wife loves me for who I am, faults and all - however she loves me a lot more when I'm medicated (Concerta).

My boss and I are like the same person.   I work in a small office with him and his wife and she is always saying how we are the same.

I think we are attracted to each other, sometimes with explosive results!
I get along with crazy people in general, unless they are actively homicidal.
I only really like the ones who burn, burn, burn.
Fire in their eyes. Originality. Loves, pursuits, curiosity, enthusiasms.
A deep enthusiasm about some pursuit makes me like people almost always.
Yeah, adhd people.
But they are a pain in the asp to have conversations with when you want/need to stay on topic, no?

I have felt this way all my life.  There are some people I instantly relate to.  Others I feel like are miles away from me. 

My daughter has a friend and I dropped her off for a sleep over one night.  I ended up talking to her mom for 3 hours about all sorts of things.  Instant friend.  I've seen her since in a couple of places and she almost doesn't even recognize me.  At first I wondered if I had the right person.  Then I thought,  she probably has ADD like me and doesn't even recognize me as she drifts by in her own world.

When I meet someone new, I instinctively know if they will be a friend of mine or not.  I think I have ADD detector built into my brain. LOL

Definitely agree.  When I started going through the recognizing my problem process I told a close friend.  She laughed.  "I've known I was ADD for years.  I've known you were too, I just figured you knew!"yesi don't know anyone who has it