Posted by chujoe on June 16, 2010, at 5:41:15
In reply to Re: maybe its b/c 'ADHD' is too popular..., posted by Phillipa on June 15, 2010, at 21:15:09
> Seriously Cujoe what symptoms led to to this dianosis? What meds were you on before. I've read that if not add as a child not as an adult? True or false. Phillipa<
Hi P -- Looking back it's really obvious that I was undiagnosed as a kid. (How could I have been, since the condition hadn't been identified?) As a child I had a hard time focusing on tasks, was by turns aggressive and needy, suffered from scrupulosity, went off on tangents; as an adult, beginning in college, I missed deadlines, dropped classes, turned in rushed work that could/should have been better, procrastinated -- these behaviors continued into my professional life & though I'm smart enough to have compensated for them over the years, I have always known that I was handicapped, not by lack of intelligence, but by something that kept deflecting me from my path. In the past this would have simply been chalked up to a failure of character, of course, and many people still think of it that way. Now that I'm taking a stim, I can focus in the way I imagine other people do without effort.
For example, I was building a trellis in the yard yesterday and i noticed that whereas in the past I would have stopped and started six times and maybe not finished for several days, I simply slowly and methodically went from one task to another and finished the job before noon. In my professional work, I have begun to organize years of notes and ideas and put them into shape for productive writing projects -- it's early days, but I'll let you know hot that goes in the coming months.
So it may be true that ADHD always manifests in children, but for my generation, they just said, "He's scatterbrained" or something like that. I also suspect that the ADHD dx is now overused, but that's another discussion.
(BTW, It's Chujoe, not Cujoe. Chujoe means Uncle Joe in Vietnamese.)
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