I have a good acquaintance who is moving away this month. The stress of her moving has toppled her with heightened ADD reactions. This was never a subject of direct discussion in our history of friendship. I felt it was time for her to face the music, and since she is leaving, I went ahead and did it. She's old enough to be thinking about this, if nothing else.

I've become more and more frustrated with her acting out these last few months. She doesn't listen, she asks for repeats, she misunderstands etc...but the last few months it has become impossible to "work" with her on anything. I attribute it to the moving stressors.

So, on the phone, I finally said, V... I think the stress of moving has really overwhelmed your ADD medicine, have you talked to your MD about adjusting it?

She went ballistic, absolutely ballistic on me. She informed me she doesn't have ADD and she does listen and the reason NO ONE else understands her is because her mind is going a million miles a second because she is MENSA and graduated top of her class and her intelligence is why no one else can keep up with her. Oh my. sigh. I tried to calm her some, informed her that yes, I do believe her mind is going a million miles a second, and that intelligent people can and do have ADD.

I'm hoping, because it was me who said it, that she will at some point in her life be able to remember what I said, and when she isn't getting the responses and results she wants from others, she will read up on ADD and find something to help herself. sigh.