[Thebomb143]

I do have a lot of the systems of adhd but not all the main ones

Most people with adhd their minds run in a million different directions mine doesn't but I still can't focus on important stuff that would be helpful for my future only stuff that that gives me intermediate rewards ie not schoolwork or work in general

I also have a very hard time controlling my emotions. I will give you a example: this labor day my parents through a party over the weekend and my cousins pushed me in the pool for no reason nothing big just a small thing that normal people would not get made over but me I lost. I'll also sometimes get frustrated over simple and hard math problems or school work in general.

I tend not to think before acting but sometimes I do think when it comes to scary stuff but
normally I say before I think

I talk a way too much and annoy everyone around me. I also interrupt people a lot

I've bought stuff that I really didn't need before

My room is very messy it looks like a tornado just rolled through it and put everything on the ground which would be procrastination which I do way too much

I am very impatience and will switch tasks every few mins it if I do not enjoy it

I am not bounce off the walls hyper well that one I really don't know because I have been told to sit and shut up many times.

I will lose track of time if its from tv watching to playing on the internet today I wanted to surf the web for a hour look at the clock its been 2 and a half and I'm like wtf it could not have been 2 hours and half

Sometimes I talk with my hands and sometimes I talk fast

I can barely read I get 5 pages in and forget what I read on the last 4

I am very very anti social

and I talk to myself when I am home alone?

Can anyone help me?

[Nike007]

It does sound like ADHD to me. You don't need to be bouncing off the walls hyper. Usually that is found in small children. This is even less of a case for females, but I have idea of your gender but statistically saying. If you don't believe you have it, seek a second opinion, but you only need 6 out of the 9 criteria to meet a diagnosis of ADHD. It seems like you do. Hope you find the help you need.

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[Thebomb143]

I forgot to add neither of my parents have it I thought it was hereditary

[kanasi]

Originally Posted by Thebomb143

I do have a lot of the systems of adhd but not all the main ones

Most people with adhd their minds run in a million different directions mine doesn't but I still can't focus on important stuff that would be helpful for my future only stuff that that gives me intermediate rewards ie not schoolwork or work in general

I also have a very hard time controlling my emotions. I will give you a example: this labor day my parents through a party over the weekend and my cousins pushed me in the pool for no reason nothing big just a small thing that normal people would not get made over but me I lost. I'll also sometimes get frustrated over simple and hard math problems or school work in general.

I tend not to think before acting but sometimes I do think when it comes to scary stuff but
normally I say before I think

I talk a way too much and annoy everyone around me. I also interrupt people a lot

I've bought stuff that I really didn't need before

My room is very messy it looks like a tornado just rolled through it and put everything on the ground which would be procrastination which I do way too much

I am very impatience and will switch tasks every few mins it if I do not enjoy it

I am not bounce off the walls hyper well that one I really don't know because I have been told to sit and shut up many times.

I will lose track of time if its from tv watching to playing on the internet today I wanted to surf the web for a hour look at the clock its been 2 and a half and I'm like wtf it could not have been 2 hours and half

Sometimes I talk with my hands and sometimes I talk fast

I can barely read I get 5 pages in and forget what I read on the last 4

I am very very anti social

and I talk to myself when I am home alone?

Can anyone help me?

I agree with Nike. Also, childhood hyperactivity can go the opposite direction as you grow older, and turn into fatigue instead. Yes, mental fatigue can be a symptom of ADHD! I bolded the ones that sound most like ADHD as far as I understand. Maybe you can sort those and others into categories.

Have you tried any treatment suggested by your doctor/psych yet (lifestyle/coaching/counselling/medication)? If not, then maybe give it a shot and see if it helps with your struggles. You might be surprised. In any case if you do have ADHD, please don't miss a chance to catch it when you're younger. It gets harder and harder to adjust to as you get older, without setting up a plan to deal with it. I hid it well as a kid it seems, but over time it's done some serious damage to my career and indirectly affected my social life as well.

[Thebomb143]

Originally Posted by kanasi

I agree with Nike. Also, childhood hyperactivity can go the opposite direction as you grow older, and turn into fatigue instead. Yes, mental fatigue can be a symptom of ADHD! I bolded the ones that sound most like ADHD as far as I understand. Maybe you can sort those and others into categories.

Have you tried any treatment suggested by your doctor/psych yet (lifestyle/coaching/counselling/medication)? If not, then maybe give it a shot and see if it helps with your struggles. You might be surprised. In any case if you do have ADHD, please don't miss a chance to catch it when you're younger. It gets harder and harder to adjust to as you get older, without setting up a plan to deal with it. I hid it well as a kid it seems, but over time it's done some serious damage to my career and indirectly affected my social life as well.

I was diagnosed around 5 but I was just wondering because neither of my parents of add or adhd and I thought it was only hereditary

[Thebomb143]

Originally Posted by kanasi

I agree with Nike. Also, childhood hyperactivity can go the opposite direction as you grow older, and turn into fatigue instead. Yes, mental fatigue can be a symptom of ADHD! I bolded the ones that sound most like ADHD as far as I understand. Maybe you can sort those and others into categories.

Have you tried any treatment suggested by your doctor/psych yet (lifestyle/coaching/counselling/medication)? If not, then maybe give it a shot and see if it helps with your struggles. You might be surprised. In any case if you do have ADHD, please don't miss a chance to catch it when you're younger. It gets harder and harder to adjust to as you get older, without setting up a plan to deal with it. I hid it well as a kid it seems, but over time it's done some serious damage to my career and indirectly affected my social life as well.

My parents took me off the meds like 2 years ago and ever since then my grades have drop horribly I am currently homeschooled and I get distracted then browse the web for a few mins which is really bad. I am surprised my mom has not made that connection yet. my dad just calls it laziness even know I have a lot of the symptoms of adhd and was diagnosed with it

[Thebomb143]

Originally Posted by kanasi

I agree with Nike. Also, childhood hyperactivity can go the opposite direction as you grow older, and turn into fatigue instead. Yes, mental fatigue can be a symptom of ADHD! I bolded the ones that sound most like ADHD as far as I understand. Maybe you can sort those and others into categories.

Have you tried any treatment suggested by your doctor/psych yet (lifestyle/coaching/counselling/medication)? If not, then maybe give it a shot and see if it helps with your struggles. You might be surprised. In any case if you do have ADHD, please don't miss a chance to catch it when you're younger. It gets harder and harder to adjust to as you get older, without setting up a plan to deal with it. I hid it well as a kid it seems, but over time it's done some serious damage to my career and indirectly affected my social life as well.

I really don't worry about my career because I plan into going into a career that is related to my hobby I can work on a pc all day and still not move on in a few mins

[kanasi]

A lot of us have trouble even sticking to things we are interested in. It seems like some symptoms lessen or go away as we get older, but many others either stick around or get worse. I had some mild hyperactivity as a kid but now I'm too fatigued to concentrate even on things that interest me a lot of the time, regardless of sleep and eating patterns (which I'm very careful about). My working memory has almost completely left me as I've gotten older (I'm late 30s). That one affects me in everything I do unless I'm hyperfocusing on something pointless. Hyperfocus is fun but you lose track of time. You'll need timers and methods to keep track of your productivity.

Also, I don't know how your social life is now but you will have less and less opportunities to make friends and meet people as you get older, so you better make sure you stay in people's good books and don't forget to contact them regularly. You need those contacts and connections to support you when job hunting. (It's not just about having the qualifications and liking the job. That's just a basic prerequisite. You also have to beat out everybody else who is trying to get that job, too, unless you have the money to fund your own business. If you have that kind of money, then you can do whatever you want. Money isn't happiness but it is freedom in this world.)

People with ADHD have a tendency to be in denial about the effect our symptoms have on our ability to thrive. I have seen both for myself (despite doing well in grade school and graduating university) and others what kind of damage that can do and I wouldn't wish it on anyone else.

[Thebomb143]

Yeah I was watching some tech vids earlier and I could not watch them the full way through I kept clicking off them keeping the tab open in the corner. I plan to go back to school for highschool so hopefully I can make some new friends my last friend that was in my goodbooks moved in January

[Thebomb143]

Their are only two things that keep my attention span for a long amount of time
Working on my pc
Playing video games
Other then that I can't finish anything through even when my parents tell me to do something I rarely can finish it

[alwaysin6thgear]

Originally Posted by Thebomb143

I do have a lot of the systems of adhd but not all the main ones

Most people with adhd their minds run in a million different directions mine doesn't but I still can't focus on important stuff that would be helpful for my future only stuff that that gives me intermediate rewards ie not schoolwork or work in general

I also have a very hard time controlling my emotions. I will give you a example: this labor day my parents through a party over the weekend and my cousins pushed me in the pool for no reason nothing big just a small thing that normal people would not get made over but me I lost. I'll also sometimes get frustrated over simple and hard math problems or school work in general.

I tend not to think before acting but sometimes I do think when it comes to scary stuff but
normally I say before I think

I talk a way too much and annoy everyone around me. I also interrupt people a lot

I've bought stuff that I really didn't need before

My room is very messy it looks like a tornado just rolled through it and put everything on the ground which would be procrastination which I do way too much

I am very impatience and will switch tasks every few mins it if I do not enjoy it

I am not bounce off the walls hyper well that one I really don't know because I have been told to sit and shut up many times.

I will lose track of time if its from tv watching to playing on the internet today I wanted to surf the web for a hour look at the clock its been 2 and a half and I'm like wtf it could not have been 2 hours and half

Sometimes I talk with my hands and sometimes I talk fast

I can barely read I get 5 pages in and forget what I read on the last 4

I am very very anti social

and I talk to myself when I am home alone?

Can anyone help me?

From what you describe you definitely have all the symptoms that would consider a person with ADD. What really caught my attention is the fact that you were diagnosed with ADD at age 5 and that your parents took you off meds 2 years ago and you are now home schooled with not much success. You don't mention how old are you now so I will assume that you are in high school age since your parents took you off meds. But why did they do that? was it the negative information circulating from people who either don't have it? have a negative view of the pharmaceutical industry? or read information from these quack doctors who have no knowledge of ADD other than their "theory" on the subject? Also Scientology is responsible for spreading most of the negative information about ADD and hide behind organizations that appear to be legitimate think tanks. Scientology has had a vendetta against both the field of psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry that goes back when L.Ron Hubbard was alive and continues to this day. Many of these quack doctors are affiliated with Scientology. Many times parents fail to take the time to educate themselves and end up listening to people that are equally uneducated.
Did the meds make a difference when you were on them? if so why did they take you off? It sounds like your parents are the ones that are lazy, not you. I would also bet that one of your parents does have it. The unfortunate thing is that you have no control over your therapy, at least not now. Your parents, sad to say, are the ones holding you back and preventing you from functioning at a somewhat normal life. There decisions will only make it difficult for you to succeed in your adult life, your already having trouble with school since being taken off your meds. You were not misdiagnosed, it's unfortunate that it has come to the point where even you are questioning your diagnoses. Bad parenting does not cause ADD, but bad parenting can destroy their childs future because of ignorance and selfishness.

[Thebomb143]

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