Do I seem ADD/ADHD?

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I am seriously considering discussing this with a doctor, but I first want to make sure that it's worth going to a doctor for. So here it goes:

REASONS WHY I BELIEVE I HAVE ADD OR ADHD:
- My short term memory is absolutely abyssmal.
- I constantly forget what I set out to do, or what I was thinking of just a few seconds ago
- I am constantly losing stuff, homework papers included.
- I am constantly forgetting to do homework
- I can't focus on my homework
- I regularly forget that I have a test/quiz in a class.
- I make the most ridiculous mistakes in my work
- I can't do something for more than a few minutes unless it's something I'm really passionate about. But even then, sometimes I still can't.
- I delay starting a task that requires a lot of thought. I suffer on the night before something big is due.
- I have trouble finishing things that I start
- I get sidetracked very easily
- My mind is still very active when I try to sleep, so I take a long time to fall asleep
- My desk, backpack, and room is a mess (oh look— there's the sock from two months ago)
- People ask me if I am hyper because I fidget/move around so much in my seat
- Until I was five or six, I never sat in my seat when eating my meal

REASONS WHY IT'S ADD INSTEAD OF ADHD, OR MAYBE NOTHING AT ALL
- I have always been one of the students that have better self-control than most
- I don't interrupt anyone very often. In fact, I let people interrupt ME way too much.
- I have always been good about waiting my turn.
- I don't blurt out answers

It seems likely.

I have ADD and i can relate with a lot of items on your list.

There is many forms in ADD/ADHD. You should talk to your doctor.

It seems very likely. Although I'm no psychologist. So it would be best to just get tested instead of relying on the people of the internet.

Also, ADD is now called ADHD-PI.