Posted by Margreet on September 16, 2006, at 12:31:20
In reply to is it possible to have ADHD if......, posted by nickguy on September 9, 2006, at 18:42:03
Hey nickguy
I have ADHD inattentive type. We can be seen as lazy and inactive, so the diagnosis of ADHD is often missed. Subjects that were inherently interesting to me were always easy, or if I really liked a teacher, I had no trouble at all. Otherwise, forget it.Other things are going on in your life: what are they? Many different stressors and substances can produce ADHD symptoms. SSRI's make me stupid: reduced cognition, difficulty expressing myself verbally, problems with writing, no interest in reading anything longer than a magazine article. Grief, worry, anxiety, depression, lack of sleep, emotional turmoil, lust, a noisy environment, an illness, a blow to the head, miscellaneous pharmaceuticals, a major change in your family: all of that stuff can mimic ADHD. (Well, lust tends to make me hyperfocused on one person, but distracted in relation to everyhting else.) Everyone on the planet can be distracted sometimes.
The real stuff has a genetic component. If you're with your biological family, it will likely show up in some of your relatives. And it shows up all over your life, not just in your schoolwork.
Another possibility is that you're just so dang smart, you haven't been challenged until lately, with more advanced courses. The last I heard, our brains are still developing until we're about 25 years old. Maybe the higher math circuits in your brain need a little fine-tuning?
It just seems un-ADHDlike that you could cruise through your schooling with no trouble, and no sign of ADHD in any other area of your life. At the very least, I'd expect a tendency to start and not finish things because you simply lost interest. We are attracted to "new and different", but once it loses the novelty, it's gone and replaced by something else.
Sorry for the long-winded post. Hope this may help.
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