I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was 7, and I was also given an IQ of 139 (which I am proud of, and I have to admit, I've been at the top of my classes without even trying to, or paying no attention at all and still making it to 4.0 GPA), and I'm betting I still have it... But I also read somewhere that not all the ADD people have high IQs! ADD can be acquired in a numerous amount of ways, and not all of them actually point to high intelligence.
I was born with ADHD and who knows what else (which I am currently looking into with my T and some specialists), so mine would be considered a biological defect. But, I've heard of others that have gotten ADHD by lead poisoning, and their IQs are very low -- 80-90 points as far as I've seen. Sure, people that don't live with ADHD might not have the intelligence that we might *possibly* have, but that doesn't mean some of them are smarter than us!
And in my own opinion, I find smarts being more important than intelligence these days...
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