Positive ADD Traits
Individuals who have ADD/ADHD tend to be very creative. It is good for them
to keep busy with activities that will engage this creativity.
ADD people are highly sensitive. Many ADD people appear to be the exact
opposite though. This may be because society does not want us to show our
feelings. This is especialy hard for males. We wonder why little boys with
ADD/ADHD are fighting a lot. If they cry like they feel like doing they
may be told that crying is for babies and to "suck it up"...
ADD people are very intuitive. We rely a lot on our gut feelings. For some
reason our society does not to seem to value intuition very highly. Society
wants us to prove everything. Sometimes it's very hard for ADD people to
find proof for what they know in their gut is 100% correct...
ADD people are usually very intelligent. Sometimes tests used by the non-ADD
world do not always show that. Plus when ADD people are not interested in
something we don't do very well and the tests become worthless...
The Negative parts of ADD
Many ADD children and adults often feel misunderstood. Much of this has
to do with non-ADD people not understanding ADD. Many people don't believe
ADD exists at all. There are also many others that label ADD as a disability
or disorder. Yes, we as ADDers may think differently than non-ADD people,
but that really does not make us disabled...
ADDers have trouble focusing on one thing at time. The non-ADD world sees
this as a problem. It can in fact be a problem when an ADDer is reading
a book that really doesn't interest him or her. Many of us really like the
fact that were are able to do 5 things at once. While many non-ADD people
can't "walk and chew gum at the same time", ADDers can do that
and so much more...
Some people with ADD appear to be very disorganized. Many times that is
just an outside appearance. We may not have things in neat files or everything
in a spot. Yet, we can usually locate things that are important to us. It's
just that since so many things are not important to us at every moment things
do get misplaced. For instance when the phone rings it's not import to us
at that moment where we put our cars keys. So, the keys usually get thrown
down anywhere...
Time can be an enemy to ADDers. It's almost as if it's a foreign concept
to us. This can lead to many problems in the non-ADD world. Bills don't
get paid on time, assignments aren't handed in, we are late for appointments.
Time just doesn't make sense to us at times...
This may be one of the largest problems for children and adults with ADD.
The problems above make it hard for us to complete things. Also, many ADDers
don't ever see any things as completely finshed. We almost always have something
more to add. It's hard for us to figure our what is acceptable as finished
to the non-ADD world when nothing is really ever finished to us...
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