how did you know you had add/adhd?

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I'v always had learning - taking things in/attention/always on defensive/never being able to explain what I did because it never made sense to me either/hyperactive problems, always treaded diferently and not knowing why, pure frustrating, then read about aspergers and things started to make sense, then read about ADHD, I was reading about my life! plus talking to people with it, they totaly made sense to me, thank god.

I know people who thrive on it and dont need a dx or meds/help, and others who have treid meds but prefer manage it themselves, not wanting meds. For others like myself I need help, and theres diferent meds so its just finding what works and the correct dosage.

Those I know with ADHD or ADD, dont do sympathy! (hate that word!! !) we just want to be able to live and get on with what we want/enjoy, even making it work for us!! !

I knew there was something wrong because I couldn't see one task through to completion and was threatened with losing my job if my numbers didn't triple. Through therapy we discovered the problem and saved my job.

My mom and brother both have ADD, and my mom (who's a psychologist) has always said she thinks I have it too. I've read quite a bit about it, and a lot of the symptoms seem to fit me: I have problems paying attention to people who are talking to me, it takes me ages to do things like homework because of concentration difficulties, I get bursts of energy during which I end up pacing endlessly, I'm disorganized, I hyperfocus, I'm late everywhere, I procrastinate, etc. I never pursued a diagnosis, but I came to a decision about a year and a half ago that I would try to develop more self-discipline in these areas of difficulty, and that if I gave my honest best effort and couldn't overcome them I would get evaluated. At the end of this past semester I decided to get evaluated over the summer, and I'm going to do so in mid-August.

Now I'm just afraid that I'll end up finding out that I don't have ADD, and that my inability to focus/time management issues will just be due to innate laziness or something. I've never done badly in school, but I feel like these issues keep me from performing as well as I can in life. It's extremely frustrating.