ADHD and Giftedness: The Paradoxical Profile.

I consider myself a paradoxical character. On the one hand, I am perspicacious and alert when it comes to the topics I love to learn about. Meanwhile, today I called my school's financial aid department and didn't present myself. Instead, I went right away to ask for what I needed to know. After hanging my dad told me I always have to tell whoever I am calling who am I. I know this stuff by heart, but when it comes to executing it, I can commit those kinds of slips.
I could figure out the charges of anti-quarks based on the charges of the quarks that make up normal matter. Protons have 3 quarks of 3 different colors which are red, green and blue (they are not literally colors. They merely are a convenient label). Those three colors make a particle with no color, which is labeled "white". In fact, neutrons also have three quarks, and so do anti-protons. Quarks also come in different "flavors" which are up, down, charmed, strange, top and bottom. An up quark has a charge of 2/3 while down quarks have it of -1/3. Since protons have a positive charge of +1, it means that their quarks are 2 up and one down quark, because 2/3+2/3=4/3-1/3=3/3=1.
When reading the passage about antiquarks, I just figured, quickly, that anti-up quarks had a charge of -2/3 and anti-down of +1/3, so -2/3-2/3=-4/3+1/3=-1. I know that this is rather simple, but what is the issue here is the speed with which I figured out without reading more about it.
Other times I have a hard time figuring out things, specially at the gym. I have a hard time looking for a certain machine because it just doesn't interest me that much. I am dragged there by my dad.
Finding specific clothes for my mom also gives me a hard time, because I find iy tedious to look for it among such a profusion of blouses. But ask me to remember the material from my Human Memory course and I can get a 96 on a test with just having read the book once.
I have a hard time modulating the volume of my voice, and often end up getting weird looks.
I can ask you questions about nature and the universe, but don't expect me to be curious about details of everyday tasks and chores.
It is curious how I can have a very good long term memory, but suck at working memory. I have a hard time following instructions on my biology lab, but get A's on my tests after a cursory reading the hour or night before the test.
I came to the conclusion that I am a "burro genius", just like Victor Villaseñor. He has dyslexia, but I can relate to some of his experiences, and I tend to see ADHD as a learning disability, a mild form of dysexecutive syndrome.
I would like to read your experiences with school and everyday life and how ADHD affects you. If you have a high IQ, have your friends expressed skepticism about your diagnosis because you are smart? It has happened to me.
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I agree about the giftedness. However, you sound more like someone with asperger's syndrome or high functioning autism than simply having ADHD

I asked the same thing on the Asperger's/Autism forum and they said it is possible to have both disorders. I don't mind having them. It doesn't change who am I and my potential. It is just additional information that I want to have in order to gain insight into my problems.
I remember as a young four year old kid I love to mimic my karate teacher and tease him. I didn't like to obey my teachers, and have thrown temper tantrums when confronted with something I consider unjust.
With respect to autism, I remember I was obsessed with having a string straightened so I could observe it. I liked to observe how straight it was and it satisfied me. But the storm came when the string was curved a little bit by either my parents or other family members. I would scream at the top of my lungs and straighten the string again. I outgrew that quirk, but I can still be obsessive about details in data or in books. I deslike vagueness and perfunctoriness whenever data is presented. I don't want any "scientists found..." No! Which scientists found that datum? Were they experts in that field? Do they even exist?
Stuff like that.
You are the second person that agrees with Asperger's syndrome