[Claire2015]

Found these pages about positive aspects of ADHD for anyone thinking of all the negative aspects of it you have a gift

ADHD Gift or Curse? The Positive Side to ADHD

The Positives of ADHD. The Advantages of Attention Deficit Disorder

Claire

[Skanzi]

As someone who has ADD himself, I can affirmatively say that I really think that ADD is actually not a 'disorder' as society has called it. Disorder is a sneaky way of saying that there is something wrong with us ADD-ers, that we're not good as we are and we should adapt. (I will call both ADHD-ers and ADD-ers now ADD, just to make it easier to write, but it includes people with ADHD aswell)

I disagree. Society just wants everybody to be obedient and the same. People with ADD provide an issue with that, since many people with ADD find themselves incapable of going along with the mainstream route of society. Some people are incapable of doing that, have different aspirations, different ways they need to be learning, different ways to get motivated. I even start to suspect that it's not people with ADD who can't get along well with mainstream education and work, but that it's the other way around. It seems like people who can't get along, in regular education, get labeled AD(H)D. I'm starting to disidentify with the label, because I feel like the spectrum and differences of people who have been diagnosed with ADD is too big to put them all on one label.

I can tell how ADD affects my life.

It's pretty good actually. Hyperfocus is certainly one of these things. I can focus for hours upon hours on a computer game, or on a different task i'm really engaged in. I really enjoy it then. At school I wasn't able to concentrate and lost my motivation for it. I've not been having school for 2 years now. In fact, i've taken the past two years off, turned 180 degrees around in my life, and I worked hard on developing myself. I started to follow my own interests, not society's interests. I read a lot of books. I've done things like public speaking, volunteer work, backpack travelling, survival training etc... These are just the outer things. On the inside, I've become much more present, stable and calm. I am becoming happier every day, granted with ups and downs, but the baseline is rising. Most of all I feel like i'm becoming really wise, really sharp in my intelligence. I could be misleading myself, but it seems like I gain many insights in life that most elder people haven't even really thought about.

I don't know if it's all because of ADD, i don't think so. I view myself as an unique individual detached from any certain labels. I can have a label, but it does not define me.

We ADD-ers are not worse, just different. Some of the most intense, successfull and/or happiest people i've seen on the internet have AD(H)D. They found a way to put their 'disorder' into an actual advantage.

[Claire2015]

Originally Posted by Skanzi

As someone who has ADD himself, I can affirmatively say that I really think that ADD is actually not a 'disorder' as society has called it. Disorder is a sneaky way of saying that there is something wrong with us AD(H)D-ers, that we're not good as we are and we should adapt.

I disagree. Society just wants everybody to be obedient and the same. People with ADD provide an issue with that, since many people with ADD find themselves incapable of going along with the mainstream route of society. Some people are incapable of doing that, have different aspirations, different ways they need to be learning, different ways to get motivated. I even start to suspect that it's not people with ADD who can't get along well with mainstream education and work, but that it's the other way around. It seems like people who can't get along, in regular education, get labeled AD(H)D.

We are not worse, just different. Some of the most intense, successfull and/or happiest people i've seen on the internet have AD(H)D. They found a way to put their 'disorder' into an actual advantage.

Thank you sir i really appreciate you reading that and taking the time to reply i completely agree with you. I don't think it's a disorder it's just a different way of thinking which doesn't make you innept or badly behaved. I honestly think ADD'ers are better than NT people.

I haven't got it but i wish i did so i could turn around and show people that ADHD isn't as bad as the media portrays it. I took the time to get to know my ADD friend which is somethin not a lot of people do, they just judge her and label her as a "lazy", "rude", "lying", "bipolar" person who thinks only of herself...... But she is completely misunderstood.

I don't even like using the word mainstream cause its like saying "normal" but what is normal? I have an anxiety "disorder" so i surely can't be normal? I completely agree with you i think the world wouldn't be the way it is without ADD'ers... The best people have ADHD like einstein you can't find anyone more intelligent and inspiring than him. I don't think he would of been successful without his ADHD gift.

Thank you for replying i really appreciate it

Claire