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Many of the traits and symptoms of ADHD can also become strengths, under the right situation or context. Here you’ll find adults who have overcome their ADHD and succeeded.
The Adult Symptoms
November 11, 2009
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By adulthood, ADHD can include forgetfulness, financial problems, addiction, anger issues, overeating, interrupting, divorce, time management, and completing projects or meeting deadlines.
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Absolutely brilliant! What a *relief* to see this. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am so grateful to all involved.
Fantastic!
Brilliant! Informative and entertaining — thank you! It’s feels so good to have found other people just like me.
Brilliant, nice job, I love it! Thanks guys… and the ladies behind them!
I, too, laughed out loud and nodded my head in agreement several times. I also found myself raising my hand in a “yes” reply each time a question was asked. I love this site and all it offers. So very helpful. I’m just getting started on my journey and meds (after years of resistance) are next.
Keep up the work guys!!…you guys have a great site, very informative and really funny, i love it!
I’m 28 yrs old and feel like someone’s observed me all of my life and then told me about how I was….i am yet to be diagnosed but i just started the process.
Thanks!!!
@Jean, not all the “symptoms” will apply to all ADD people. I see at the end of your post you’ve made it a point to nurture the paying attention skill in yourself. Good for you!
For myself, I still remember being told in school that I didn’t live up to my potential, talk too much, yadda, yadda, yadda! My mother just the other day said she didn’t understand how I think! She also doesn’t believe in any sort of “mental impairment” in our family. Not in HER family! I asked for help at age 14 and was told to go to my sister (who is probably also ADHD) for help. Pity was, at the time, I detested my sister. We get along better now (44 years later), but it would not have worked way back then. Rats!
This made me laugh right out loud several times. I feel fortunate that I was diagnosed five years ago at age 36, coincidently (or maybe not so much) right after I quit drinking. I’m at a point now where I’m not seeking to figure out IF but rather figuring out HOW…how to adapt certain behaviors, how to remain patient with myself and my kids, how to help my kids who are also ADHD, and how to use my uniqueness as an asset rather than constantly seeing it as a liability. The humor helps, knowing other adults who are also ADHD helps. Attending CHADD meetings for other ADHD adults is an amazing experience! This site has been a wonderful find and I’m eager to share it. Thanks for the great work!
There is one of the things you mention that I never felt applies to me, and that is the Inattention. In fact I’ve always felt others don’t pay attention and often just don’t listen.
It may be that I do in fact have inattention issues, but nobody has pointed it out to me (except in the form of telling me to stop interrupting, talk less, ask less and stop fidgeting with things etc.).
Sort of funny though, since all the other things applies to some degree … several a very high degree at that, and some just mildly … all except Inattention.
Again, this is all as far as I have been able to notice. But it could have to do with me having made a special point of paying attention to others; something I decided on very early on in my life because I wanted to avoid playing a part in making other people hurt as much as I felt I was most of the time (feeling overlooked, not taken seriously, being ignored, and so on).