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What is it like to have ADD? ... I have a short talk that I often give to groups as an introduction to the subjective experience of ADD and what it is like to live with it:
Attention Deficit Disorder. ... As far as I can see, many people who dont have ADD are charter members of the Congenitally Boring.
But anyway, be that as it may, there is this syndrome called ADD or ADHD, depending on what book you read. So whats it like to have ADD? ... The only thing that saves it is that so many of the people who use it have ADD that theres a constant soothing bustle.
What is it like to have ADD? ... In ADD, this does not happen. In ADD, time collapses. ... To the person with ADD it feels as if everything is happening all at once. ... In these moments I, like most people with ADD, can hyperfocus, which gives the lie to the notion that we can never pay attention. ... Thats why I, like so many people with ADD, lack tact. ... We ADD types dont do this so well. ... Thats the thing about ADD. ...
Many of us with ADD crave high-stimulus situations. ... Obviously this tendency can get you into trouble, which is why ADD is high among criminals and self-destructive risk-takers. ... Usually the positive doesnt get mentioned when people speak about ADD because there is a natural tendency to focus on what goes wrong, or at least on what has to be somehow controlled. But often once the ADD has been diagnosed, and the child or the adult, with the help of teachers and parents or spouses, friends, and colleagues, has learned how to cope with it, an untapped realm of the brain swims into view. ... I use the male pronoun, but it could just as easily be she, as we are seeing more and more ADD among females as we are looking for it. ... It is important for others to be sensitive to this "sixth sense" many ADD people have, and to nurture it. ...
The thing to remember is that if the diagnosis can be made, then most of the bad stuff associated with ADD can be avoided or contained. ... Making the diagnosis of ADD can take the case from the court of moral judgment to the clinic of neuropsychiatric treatment. ... So, if you know someone like me whos acting up and daydreaming and forgetting this or that and just not getting with the program, consider ADD before he starts believing all the bad things people are saying about him and its too late.
Approximate Word count = 2069
Approximate Pages = 8.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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