The NT with ADHD

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Those can be the most exciting folks to hang around. They tend to keep me from always playing it safe. However in small doses. Don't expect them to remember things you deem to be important or to stay on topic.

That is so cool, naturaplastic!☺

Yeah, my 17 year old brother is like that and he is very easy to get along with. He has more friends then I can count and he is very extroverted, spending a lot of time at the skate park to the point that he is very skilled at doing tricks on a BMX bike. His nickname is "rusty" and there a lot of people who know me as "rusty's brother" because he knows a lot of people and I hang out alone inside the house most of the time.

I know several NTs with ADHD. Most of them got on my nerves because they never remember anything I tell them. Having conversations with them is hard because they get distracted easily and have to talk to everyone in the room. My brother is my favorite NT with ADHD. He is a lot of fun to be around. He helped me become more easy going.

My Dad is ADHD. He is often forgetful and you have to remind him to do things and having to call him to make sure he did it. He often loses things and I can't count how many times he has lost his wallet and had to cancel his credit cards. Plus he misses detail so he has gotten ripped off by other people because he gets impulsive. My dad will also take his eyes off the road and he has totaled one of his cars once because of it. Plus he often says things without thinking and doesn't get it.

People with ADHD are not neurotypical. Referring to us as such is like saying we don't have significant brain differences from neurotypical people. Please don't do that. ADHD is a neurodevelopmental disorder.

Sure. Both my former online besties were diagnosed as one.
I didn't even knew they were like that IRL for like, YEARS of online friendship. Until I start revealing them that I'm in the spectrum, they revealed they're not quite NT too...


IRL? I met some of them. On my age group, not just children. They are fun and there's no 'predatorial sense' or false funs from few extroverts I encountered. I wouldn't mind following them or dragging me around.
But there's a few of them who are actively trying to get into a fight, and it's rather hillarious. I'm glad that none of those went serious.

Children would either get on my nerves or get me laughing. I get to be with some of them on daily basis.

I'm rather used to the 'not being heard/recalled' part, for different reasons...

... They never questioned my oddities. Too bad we live very far apart to know each other more.

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My mom and my sister both have ADHD. It's impossible for me to follow a conversation between the two of them because they bounce from topic to topic, seemingly with no segue. I also find it annoying at times because they gloss over subjects so quickly, whereas I like to delve into details, which they either ignore, forcibly changing the subject by talking over me, or forget thirty seconds after I tell them. They're both dyslexic too, so neither of them is terribly academically inclined, which makes it even harder for me to converse with them, because all I ever really talk about is facts and information, which they find boring.