Hi, I'm a seventeen year's old and my best friend tells me that she thinks I might have ADD.

• I am impulsive, I act on instinct almost always.

• I speak before I think all the time, not thinking about the consequences of my actions.

• I talk too much because I hate silence for some reason. Silence to me is uncomfortable and awkward, and I feel anxious, nervous when there's silence.
• I start to self-blame when there is silence, I start to think that nobody wants to talk to me because I'm boring, and I continue to blame myself until I get depressed.

• If I can't say the stuff on my mind, I feel trapped and suffocated, and I desperately want to let my thoughts out, regardless if people want to hear them or not.

• I would gladly make myself a laughing spectacle to make others laugh, their laughter fuels me.

• I don't know how to take social cues, << quoted from my best friend. I don't understand or can't see when someone is talking about a private subject, and I ask questions about it out of curiousity anyway.

• I sometimes think I lack empathy, because I hardly ever feel emotions for other people.

• When I ask a friend out to go shopping together, I always feel like I'm wasting their time. I feel obliged to reward them or I will feel guilty.

• I can't concentrate on text that is not in my particular area of interest, and it's hard to memorise quotes from that text too.

• I have a short attention span, and I forget things quickly unless it's very important.
• I often forget if I have locked the door behind me etc.
• When I'm bored, I often feel depressed then eat nonstop. Not because I'm hungry but because I'm bored.
• Me and my parent's relationship is really bad, to the point that I told them I felt like I was using them for money because I couldn't find that emotional connection with them.

So there is most of it, please tell me if I do have ADD. I just spent an hour looking up the symptoms and information about Attention deficient disorder, and I might need to see a pyscharitryst if I do have it.