I scored 99 percent on an ADHD test

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I find it hard to focus on things. Shopping is the worst. I miss all the bargains, and I walk straight past things in the windows, whereas most people (especially women I know) let displays in the window catch their eye. I'm always ''on the go'' - I can't dawdle about, if I'm shopping I whip in and out of shops.

It's not that I go into a world of my own. It's just that I get distracted onto other things (sometimes I wish I WERE in a world of my own!) Also there are always voices chattering away in my head, and my mind is so cluttered that I can't focus on anything (this was in one of the questions in the adult ADHD test I took). Once when I was at the zoo, I felt I wasn't one hundred percent focused on the animals, nor was I taking in what the people were saying about the animals through them speaker things. I loved the animals, but other things kept on distracting me - I kept finding myself talking to somebody and not paying attention, or all the little kids running about kept distracting me because they were loud and annoying, and then other things distracted me. Then I kept saying, ''when's lunch?'' then when we were having lunch I rushed it really quickly, then when I finished I said, ''are we ready to go look at some more animals now?'' It's like I can't hang about - I like to go. I'm obsessed with buses, but even when I'm in the bus station I want time to hurry up so that my bus can come and I can just get on it - instead of wishing I could be standing there forever. It feels like I hate wasting time. What is this?

Yeah.

If that stat is true, and given the temper flare ups that I've seen in my self and others with it, I can see a correlation with the above stat vs. someone less prone to be stressed out or provoked. But, I don't think it would be a stretch to say that 'behavior" emanates more from the ADHD hyperactive side, and not from the inattentive corner.

Last edited by Mdyar on 15 Jan 2012, 12:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.

That sounds like me. I like to be on the move. If I'm not on the go, I tend to space out and get sleepy.

I can't stand waiting around for anything. Time suddenly stretches way out so it feels like longer than it is. Like if I'm waiting in line at a store for 30 seconds, it feels like several minutes passed. I am very impatient, and I try to hide it so not to pressure or offend people but in the back of my mind I'm constantly thinking hurry up hurry up hurry up go go go go go.

Statistically speaking, people with unmedicated ADHD are more likely to get into more accidents, and the accidents themselves are on average more severe (more damage, more injuries, more fatalities) than accidents involving only NTs. Somewhat ironically and rather sadly, the researcher (Dr. Russell Barkley) who came up those statistics lost his brother (who had ADHD) to an auto accident while doing the research.

Also, there's a high degree of comorbidity with cluster B personality disorders, and I believe the majority of people with ADHD who end up in prison also tend to meet the criteria for ASPD as well.



ADHD isn't a form of neurotypicality. ADHD is what it is because the brain does not function the way it does for most people. The parts of the brain that deal with self-regulation, planning, etc. function in such a way as to make these things fairly difficult, and result in what I've heard described as "You know what to do, but you can't do what you know." That the part of the brain that handles planning and the part of the brain that handles implementation of those plans is effectively impaired. It is an atypical neurology, although more common than autistic spectrum disorders.

If you see someone diagnosed with AS who strikes you as more ADHD and not so much autistic, there's a chance they were misdiagnosed. By definition, AS is an autistic disorder.



Didn't they have a medical card for you? Most states I've lived in, it's relatively easy to get medical care for childre, even if not for adults (I could be assuming too much by assuming you're in the US).