Misconceptions About ADHD
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- ADHD, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, is a mental illness that affects many people of all ages. So... why do some still assume it's a quirky trait and an excuse for not trying hard enough?
On today's episode of Misconceptions, we try to clear up some common myths about ADHD. Does everyone who zones out have ADHD? Is it something most people grow out of once they hit a certain age? Are those social media posts describing basic habits as ADHD symptoms accurate?
Join host Bethel Afful as she describes her experience with ADHD and breaks down some misconceptions about the disorder.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:19 People with ADHD have no attention span
00:03:11 Any lack of focus = ADHD
00:04:53 Everyone with ADHD is hyperactive
00:05:57 ADHD only affects children
00:07:20 We know that ADHD is overdiagnosed
00:10:32 ADHD can be self-diagnosed
00:12:18 ADHD is a learning disability
00:13:32 People with ADHD just need to try harder
Biggest misconception about ADHD, and mentally illness in general: if you're capable to keeping a job, paying your bills, and otherwise being "functional" there can't be anything wrong with you.
Heck yeah. See also "You're too smart to have ADHD. "
I have bipolar disorder and adhd and have managed to function as long as I take my medication. So people wonder why I take medication since I am “ fine.”
It's a misconception that having difficulty with time means you're always late; some of us overcompensate and end up being super early for everything
Seconded, I’ve ended up seeing 5 minutes early as being late
And when people ask why you’re so early you just have to say “I didn’t want to be late.”
So true. But it's also the inability to project how much time something will take.
@@hiefur Yes, so you end up adding extra time for every task and hugely miscalculating anyway lol
@@hiefur It's pretty funny to be the kind of software architect who can detail an entire system design from scratch, but when your boss says "okay that's great, now we need to estimate how long all this will take." And you both just look at each other, expressions flat, and sigh.
What I didn't know was that ADHD was the thing keeping me from completing tasks that I knew I needed to do in a day. ADHD is tied closely to executive function. If you find yourself completely overwhelmed by the things you need to do but you can't make yourself do them, consider talking with a mental health professional.
I was just officially diagnosed this year at age 36. It's SO FRUSTRATING to look for information when almost everything is about "your child". There is no child, *I'm* the patient.
(And I imagine part of why I wasn't diagnosed as a kid was because I wasn't a "jump out of your seat and run around" kid and did well academically.)
Also recently diagnosed in my 30s. I've found some good resources through ADDitude magazine, CHADD, How to ADHD, and Understood. There are also ADHD coaches that specifically work with adults in developing skills and habits to manage the ADHD symptoms that most impact your life.
Fellow 36yo diagnosed last week! (Only after starting the process 11months ago, and thats from a position of have the privilege to access and pay for the assessments ..) Ologies have a great two part podcast on ADHD. (Warning it's LOOONG). One of thing that stood out to me was that the information available for adults in 2009 was even more scant then! It's crazy!
I'm also in this camp. I loved to read, and, since reading equals smart, the fact that I was regularly late with homework and didn't actually pay attention in class was easy to overlook. There was a low point in my life where my executive dysfunction almost left me homeless, and still it wasn't until a marriage counselor asked my wife and I about my ADHD as if it was totally obvious that I was able to get assistance.
The assumption of hyperactivity is the most irritating for me because I have inattentive-type ADHD and it actually makes me feel tired and sluggish from the “bees in my brain” feeling (where you have a million tangential thoughts going on that fly around seemingly at random) and from constantly trying to redirect myself to the task at hand. Exhausting. Anyway, I always feel like a bit of a fraud when I tell people I have ADHD and they’re like “but you’re so chill.” No, what you see before you is not chill, actually. It’s just exhaustion.
by far the most frustrating thing about adhd is not having it but getting people to conseptualize theres really no way or working harder to cirumvent or working around. Its makes thing challenging for me, but its also the only way I’ve ever known my brain to be. Its part of who I am, and its just how my brain works. No amount of “life hacks” are going to be able to change that. And even in the spaces prettt accepting of neurodivergence, theres still a tremendous amount of energy that I have to expend masking or clamping down on reponses to stimuli or impulses just to be sble to function at all in environments not built around my needs
I just got diagnosed a year ago. Because like she said, girls symptoms tend to go unnoticed. What I do t think is talked about enough is how the depression and anxiety caused by ADHD can be debilitating.
I’m off a lot of my medication wasn’t working because it wasn’t the root cause!
I was lucky to receive my diagnosis early in life and still struggle with doctors understanding that treating my adhd first will help my depression.
I got ADHD and I hate it when people call it a "superpower". For me it's been nothing but a hinderance, it has fucked me over so many goddamn times and I'd give fucking anything to be rid of it. That might not be a popular stance on it but it's my experience, I got no help as a kid, I only got yelled at. I spent the majority of my life simply thinking I was an idiot that couldn't do anything right. It's a disease for me.
The only way to change this thought pattern is to change the way you think, surely. Rather than being mad at people who say it's a superpower, try thinking of it as one, but know everyone, like with other mental health issues, has it different. Good luck with it, I myself, love my superpower (until i play a video game and lose half the day!)
@@Lewmer. What you say is true, and wise. I wish I could internalize it, gods know I've tried.
I'm just tired, you know? Tired of having this everlasting roadblock in my head.
I'm sorry you feel that way, I felt that way when I was young, but as I got older I felt it sub-optimal to let something defeat me or define me, rather to make it something I could use to my benefit especially knowing my ADHD was going to effect me well into my years. Don't get me wrong, I'm far from being able to stop myself forgetting every birthday, but I let the people around me know that if I did, not to take it personal. Adapt and overcome. Best of luck, as we're all different, no one can tell you how to deal with this.
I think anyone who calls ADHD a superpower is confusing it with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder).
Asperger's (high-functioning ASD) can be a superpower, but it also comes with serious drawbacks. For example, it may give an attention to detail and pattern recognition that makes you excellent for certain jobs, but that same attention to detail makes you come across as judgmental and nitpicky in your personal relationships.
The perception of ADHD as a curse almost always stems from the "judging a fish by it's ability to climb" type of perspective. Not just your perspective, but everyone else that makes you feel like a failure for not being able to function like a neurotypical person. The key to changing this is to stop using their metrics to measure yourself. Sure, we live in a society built for neurotypical people and on some level we have to try to conform. But you can't change your brain chemistry. If you can, try to find ways to leverage the different way your brain works. Idk if I'd call ADHD a superpower regardless, but the people that do think that way because they've found ways to make their brain work for them.
Thinking about it as a time management disorder makes so much sense. I often say I'm chronically chronically challenged.
Did you mean to say chronically chronologically challenged?
Possibly. I couldn't think of the proper phrasing
Ive been diagnosed for like....30 years now. I wish i could function a bit better at the standard adult stuff but goodness when i have work that plays to my strengths its like a superpower.
The weirdest funtime activity when you're diagnosed with ADHD is to look up what other personality traits it's associated with. They're so specific but so random - e.g. propensity for insomnia, disinterest in food, unusual difficulty hearing in loud environments. At some point you start to wonder how much of your personality is even you and how much is the disorder.
Having lived with a diagnosis (both at 7 years old and again at 15) of ADHD, I honestly thought some of these things were normal adult interactions in life. I think teachers especially could really learn from this information. Good job Mental Floss!
You just gave me a name for the shiver/shake that I do! I've been to three different psychologists/therapists. All they said was "It's not a tick." LMAO
Things like Autism and ADHD prove that the human brain is a vast and complex millions-of-years-old machine that we barely understand.
If we could control the brain's hormones or electricity with implants, we could make it do these things any time we wish. Imagine having to study a boring or long subject matter so you will yourself into hyper-focus, staying on the same task for hours on end.
People who think ADHD is over-diagnosed usually have wildly inflated ideas of how many children are diagnosed with ADHD. Earlier this year I encountered someone who thought 75% of current school children had been diagnosed with ADHD! The reality is about 10%.
I heard it's both over diagnosed and under diagnosed.
@@lainiwakura1776 That's probably accurate: hyperactive ADHD over-diagnosed, inattentive ADHD under-diagnosed.
Less helpful than self diagnosis is allowing others to diagnose you who don't have the knowledge to do so. I've been in that position and thought "well, maybe... but I havn't been tested". The look of dissapointment I've gotten when turning down their wanton labeling of "what's wrong with this person" is disconcerting, to me.
in the 70s and early 80s you were told you were lazy, not achieving your potential and given detention for not paying attention, combine it with autism spectrum that wasn't known at the time and it was not a great time for kids who were different.
I find that by adding a constant destruction I/ E a radio or TV in the background it helps due to the constant distraction keeps me on track with the normal things I have to do
This always has the opposite effect for me, but I have a friend that does this too. Voices are the worst in my case. I've been well known for not being able to hold a conversation when there's a tv turned on in the room. I'll straight up trail off in the middle of a sentence and forget what I was saying.
Kind of hate the part about self-diagnosis... When I'm hitting all the DSM criteria and crying when I found other people with an "official" diagnosis who shared struggles and feelings that I have struggled with for my entire life, I feel quite comfortable with my self-diagnosis because I don't have $1200 to throw away for a professional to tell me what I know.
I propose ADHD be renamed Hyperactive Attention-Regulation Disorder (HARD).
on the topic of time: My entire life has been over preparing for a meeting that is only in the afternoon as soon as I wake up, then 5 minutes before the time of the appointment staring at the seconds counter on my computer with staggered breathing waiting for a meeting to start and feeling as if three years passed in a span of 5 seconds
When I was a teenager, I had a appointment with a psychiatrist who mentioned ADHD within 10 minutes of talking to me. My mom and I both wrote her off as a quack. I wasn't formally diagnosed with ADHD until I was in my early-to-mid 20s. I look back on it now and wonder if she was really a genius.
I just learned that ADHD is a performance disorder… this makes so much sense! It’s so frustrating to have the knowledge but can’t get it out. I learn so fast but it takes me so long to get my “performance” of a task down perfect.
I finally got diagnosed with ADHD at 36. Since 2nd grade I’ve had teachers tell my parents that I should get checked for it. My parents didn’t understand the concept of mental health. When I explained to them that Michael Phelps and Bill Gates have ADHD and used it to their advantage they finally started understanding. I brought it up with my doctor who referred me to the psychiatry department. Nearly 30 years late but I finally got it.
I think another interesting video would be comparing symptoms of ADD and ADHD going through all of the things that are symptoms of ADHD and say no actually this is for ADD or vice versa
The hardest part of adult ADHD is the grief of the life you could have had.
I haven’t been able to get a diagnosis yet, but I’m very certain I have it. The more I learn about ADHD, the more I realize that no, I’m not lazy, it’s not that I don’t care about being on time, it’s not that I don’t care about my family and friends that I don’t see often, amongst other things, It’s that my brain just doesn’t work like most people’s. And its frustrating that I meet so many of those criteria, but I also fit most of the factors that decrease your likely hood of being diagnosed.
I just... I need help, and I feel like no one can or will
You may also consider depression as a root cause. I realize you haven't spoken of everything in your life but those mentioned fit.
@@greypoet2 On the other hand, multiple friends of mine found that their anxiety and/or depression virtually disappeared when their ADHD was finally diagnosed and treated in midlife. And of course some people can have both mood disorder and ADHD, which is more complex to address. It highlights the importance of seeing a skilled psychiatric (or neuropsychiatric) professional to identify underlying causes and propose treatments (meds and/or behavioral).
@@greypoet2 Depression and anxiety are comorbidities to ADHD. I took anxiety meds and the things relating to ADHD stuck out MORE to me. I've had insurance issues that are preventing me from seeing a professional, but it's supposedly genetic and my little brother has it.
I’ve been diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and OCD, but I still feel like there are symptoms that just aren’t covered by those
So I have ADD (ADHD without the Hyperactivity.) and I have to sadly admit that I was once so distracted by two squirrels fighting in a tree. I have the attention span of a 12 month old child. The way I explain my ADD is that when im in a crowded lunch room my mind can’t decide on what’s the thing I should be focused on, I can hear all the conversations around me and my eyes dart around the room. I have to force myself to focus on my friends and what we’re talking about. I have ear buds on my 24/7 so that if I need to focus I can just throw on some music or a podcast, that sounds counterintuitive but I know these voices, these beats there’s a flow and pattern to what is playing, I don’t have to think I can focus on what I’m doing and I don’t notice all the little things around me that break that flow. I’ve been diagnosed since I was 7 and medicated since I was 8. I lived for a few years without my meds and learned how to function but it’s a lot harder. Another part of my ADD is a sensitivity to textures… irregularities in textures freak me out and always have. ADD or ADHD presents differently for everyone we have things in common but everyone’s brain is different.
TVs get to me. If I'm standing in a room with a TV on, even with the sound off, while playing a program I have zero interest in, I will keep having the compulsion to turn to look at it. The moving pictures in my peripheral vision has always been really distracting.
This is very similar to my experience. I like the metaphor you used it resonates with how my brain works too. Diagnosed age 12 and again at 18. I’m 23 now. It’s tough cause I also have co-morbidities like depression, anxiety, and addiction. ADD as an adult is so much shittier than as a kid. Even while medicated
To understand hyperfocus vs attention deficits, the difference is interest/necessity
Think about how you could remember every Pokémon or every pony in MLP but might have struggled to pay attention to math lessons.
I can hyper focus on a video game, especially a “one more turn” type of strategy game.like civilization, for days on end, taking breaks to eat and sleep but the entire time I am still strategizing for when I can get back to the game…until I run out of juice and lose interest in the game for months
The DSM diagnostic criteria are based on how much of a bother you are to the people around you, not how having your brain wired this way gives you a different experience. Specialists in ADHD focus on the latter, especially with the very recent improvements in understanding the presentation in people who are not young boys.
In addition to the shortcomings in diagnostic criteria, I think a lot of folks take how we saw our parents/relatives operate and filed that in the range of normal, even if it wasn't. We expect certain everyday things to be hugely difficult or we think that struggling with certain things is just how it is without relief. As an example: I almost never watched a movie on TV in order growing up -- my dad would be watching 3 movies at once in different channels, flipping the channel when a commercial would start (DVR hadn't been invented yet). I thought that was normal, but it was in fact very not. Turns out my dad had a lot of intense behaviors I now recognize as ADHD. Friends who have been formally diagnosed, medical patient guides, and listening to research talks have been really helpful to put my personal and family experience in context. It's honestly been a relief to better understand what my brain is doing and how to work with it.
A group of friends and I have been figuring out our various flavors of neurodivergence over the last 5 years (we tend to flock, with out without diagnosis). It's been lovely to be surrounded by people who get it -- who can laugh with me when it takes an hour to make a 2-minute coffee, who can ride with my leaps of logic when my brain is in racecar mode, and who share tips for how to manage the challenges of keeping moving with slug-brain or keeping racecar-brain on a track instead of jetting off to make crop circles in a field somewhere. Having supportive people in your life makes such a difference.
Nice helpful information. Thanks for taking the time to put together this presentation. A grammar note: "criteria" is plural ... means more than one. You have one diagnostic criteriON that may apply to a person with ADHD, or several/multiple diagnostic criteriA. Thanks again for sharing the information.
Thank you for this video and Bethel Afful. I hope I spelled her name correctly. I find her very engaging.
Thank You!
I just got distracted in the middle of this video and had to rewind 😐
One time? Those a rookie numbers... :P
@@Leophred I'm still not done with the video 😂
@@blockchaaain Hang in there.
The irony of making a 15 minute video about ADHD was not lost on me. 1.5-2x speed ftw.
THANKS!
Loved this host. Great deadpan humour
The being over diagnosed thing is why I wasn't diagnosed... because while my doctor said I probably had it... it was known the other doctor in her office was the type to tell all his patients they had it and them on meds... my mom and teacher both feared if mine would do the same.
I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid but the decision was not to medicate me. I know this was more a challenge for the adults around me than for me. Now I am an adult and still have ADHD and the social challenges associated with that but I that not using drugs helped me develop coping strategies and also allowed me the benefit from the benefits of having ADHD. I know saying there are benefits to ADHD is probably not well received but I am pretty high functioning and a lot of people over the years have told me I am the smartest person they have ever met - not bragging, I am just trying to bring balance and perspective to ADHD.
In my experience the school system just wants to medicate any kid who won't sit still and learn the way they want them to.
My daughter was diagnosed at age 4 (even tho she had symptoms from an early age...around the time she could move on her own) and was generally hyperactive until she reached high school, when she switched to being very lazy. I have always thought I may have had it myself, but was never diagnosed. I do tend to hyperfocus on certain things....which I attributed to "going down the rabbit hole". It's funny because I was almost named Alice. 😂
I don't know if I have ADHD. I like listening to videos at 2x speed while doing nonograms.
In the 60's the term ADHD didn't exist yet. I was diagnosed with Neurokinesis. I was told by my shrink that only smart people have this issue. I was also told that Gender dysphoria and attractions to same sex people was a common symptom in people with Neurokinesis. Not sure if those I still tied together these days.
I honestly don't know whether I would fall into ADHD or ADD. All I know is as I got older I slowly got better at overriding the symptoms when needed. It still gets me in small ways like forgetting to keep my mouth shut and overtalking people. I remember when I was young someone would be speaking to me and Mid-sentence I would think crazily about lots of things for a very long time and when I'd come back to earth, the person talking to me would be finishing their sentence. That was my favorite symptom of ADHD. This would happen well into my 20's but somewhere in my 30's that went away. Oddly enough in my 60's the symptoms are mostly pretty minor for the last few years. I still get distracted or turn sideways in my thoughts and still have big long conversations with myself about the topic at hand in my head while I wait for the talker to catch up with me. but I can certainly hide it a lot better and I am much better listener these days. I hated ritalin and treatment and I knew in my heart that though some people had issues with me sometimes I was much happier when I didn't take medicine so Once I had the option, I have never taken medicine for it.
Oh no. Now I want to read about the lore of the hanna Barbara cinematic universe and that's probably going to be my week now
I have inattentive ADHD, I just consider my hyperactivity to be contained in my brain.
I know a misconception about ADHD: medication is the only way to management. Considering it can shorten your lifespan, you should use it to quickly get the symptoms under control and then use CBT to help you manage your ADHD and get off medication.
Thanks for doing this. Assuming I haven't missed them, it would be great if you could also do similar videos on ADD and autism (although the latter should be two videos as there's the form of behavioural autism that antivaxxers and the like think that everyone diagnosed with it has, and Asperger's. And both of those have numerous differences within them, hence the word "spectrum" which is attached to the diagnosis).
My reasoning is twofold - one is, as with your own condition, there is so much misunderstanding. People tend to assume ADD and ADHD are identical, that ADD is the "grownups" form of ADHD (no hyperactivity in the label). The same lack of understanding happens with autism (as I mentioned above).
The other reason is that out of my four (now adult) children, one, my youngest (daughter) has ADD, which was only diagnosed 1-2 years ago (I have so lost track of time over the last few years!), and my younger son is on the Asperger's spectrum, diagnosed near the end of his first year at uni, despite me telling my doctors that something wasn't quite right with him when he was 3 (and onwards... Sigh🤦🏻♀️ He wouldn't do _anything,_ including talking, until he felt he could do it properly. He was 38 months old with 5 words, then Tellytubbies came out and a week later he had a vocab of a few hundred words and spoke grammatically correctly. He'd understood everything before that point, but we think he thought the Tellytubbies were stupid 🤷🏻♀️).
Quite possibly I am also on the Asperger's spectrum (though at 57 and as a woman, I'm not going to get any doctor to pay attention to me over that), given my son's particular symptoms and diagnosis (genetic Asperger's; and he is like my Dad was and me too, especially as a child).
To reinforce your statement about them having nothing to do with learning disabilities, both of them have degrees and are quickly becoming experts in their fields - totally relied upon by their bosses. At least my son was until the tiny charity he worked for ran out of money to pay him. Job interview next week so fingers crossed! My daughter's been doing two people's jobs until a new boss came in and discovered what she does. Fortunately, she's got a terrific boss and they let her work from home most of the time. A hangover from lockdown, but it helps her work and not get upset or distracted by others, allowing her to do the work of two people!
As for your doctor not telling you that you're smart, etc, it's probably because they assume you've already been told it many times. If not, you really come across as smart and successful (apologies, I forgot the other one but I did think it fitted you well), and on top of that you're very charming and beautiful. Some people get all the luck! All the best and thanks again for a really informative and interesting video. 🤗
Amazing video
I'm diagnosed with ADHD and I think one of the reported misconceptions in this video is incorrect. ADHD actually allows for superior compartmentalization, rather than lacking it. In fact, part of the time dysfunction that exists in most people with ADHD is a compartmentalization separating task from time; thus not being able to recognize time constraints on a given task.
It's an extension of the out of sight out of mind aspect of ADHD. If you have ADHD and you're doing a project, like a school project, and it has many components. It's not that you can't compartmentalize each component and do them, so much as you overly compartmentalize each component dividing it not only from the time constraints (e.g. deadlines) but also the whole project.
In fact, I use my ADHD to my advantage for this very purpose, working on each component separately in my head at the same time. Dividing my focus on each task as a singular unit, which tends to save me time.
I have adhd all it does to me is makes me struggle at focusing and hyperactivity
I hate the misconception kids "grow out of" having ADD/ADHD. You don't grow out of your brain wiring anymore than you can grow out of having cancer. But as cancer can be treated into remission, so accommodations, meds, coping techniques, supportive networks and finding your niche can make it *appear* that your ADD/ADHD has vanished. When really, it's just a person being in the best fit of lifestyle and environment for them, with the life management tools that they need, and not experiencing something that drains their brain of executive functioning energy on either a daily or spontaneous basis. Thus allowing them to function at least mostly successfully. Take that away and see how quickly their self-care, life management and coping / self-regulating ability vanishes -- and doesn't return. Yeah. Exactly.
I've had this since I was a kid and I'm 36. Be on note if anyone has this if needing to get help as an adult. I'm trying to get help with my adhd. I don't even work. It's hard to be social around folks at times with this but with also having physical and mental disabilities.
I did work 13 jobs from 2005-2009. I definitely have learning disabilities too.
I've been on a wait list to be examined to be determined I have adhd. To have the same test I did as a kid.
I think throwing the word Disorder in front of a thing that happens to everyone probably contributes to this. While more descriptive, I think not to many people self diagnose Parkinsons, munchausen (ironic)Aspbergers, Ganser, etc.
If not caught while you're a child, Asperger's pretty much has to be self-diagnosed as an adult. Then you will have to wage a protracted battle with almost everyone you know who insists you "don't look/act autistic."
@@jliller Are as many people self diagonsising Aspergers as people posting "I'm so adhd because I wear pink" or "Im so ocd I had to organize my books"
@@abigfavor I think there's a big difference self-diagnosis and casually using a word without really knowing what it means. Maybe I underestimate the stupid of the TikToks, but I'd like to think practically nobody will watch a one minute video and seriously decide they have a serious mental health condition. The ones that do are probably some kind of hypochondriac.
Cool, a new host.
What is HD and why did my doctor say I have eighty of it?
When I read I can become so hyper focused the rest of the world tends to fade away. It may take two or three directly spoken comments to get my attention.
I once dated someone who claimed that he could not ever be expected to wash the dishes because of his ADHD.
What about rejection sensitivity?
Well, as an ADHDer myself, I like you
What is the difference between ADD and ADHD?
What’s the difference between hyper vigilance vs hyper focuse?
Why isn’t CBT prescribed for ADHD first at a young age?
Why don’t people talk about the neurological presentings of ADHD; such as people with ADHD stimulants do the opposite,neurologically. For example if you can drink a cup of coffee and go to sleep you might have ADHD.
Why is it assumed that people with ADHD have poor time management? From a medical point of you we understand that every person has their own circadian rhythm. The majority of peoples circadian rhythm runs in harmony with one another but statistics are showing that those with ADHD have a circadian rhythm that runs counterintuitive to the average person. This is not a bad treat to possess, but in a world of conformity and over diagnosis, some people would just fair better working the third shift or going to night school.
I really do enjoy psychology the human mind is fascinating. I especially enjoy watching other people put other perfectly fine human beings in a box.
Food for thought: What dictator punished people for being antisocial and placed them in jail or had them castrated for not fitting in?
Everyone has a place everyone has a purpose.
1. ADD is old terminology for Inattentive ADHD.
2. Hyper-vigilance is a state of alertness (assuming we're both thinking of the same behavior). Hyper-focus is when you do one thing and temporarily lose track of everything else - time, hunger, need to pee, sounds, etc. So basically they're opposites.
3. CBT isn't the miracle cure for everything.
4. I'm thinking the subject hasn't been well-researched.
5. ADHD time management issues isn't simply a tendency to go to bed late. Also, I suspect much of the night owl ADHD behavior isn't even caused by delayed sleep phase issues, but rather difficulty breaking off hyperfocus and winding the brain down.
ADHD time management issues also involve losing track of time and being unable to accurately estimate how long an activity will take.
6. People who complain about being "put in a box" are basically always "not perfectly fine."
7. Are you going Godwin's Law?
8. Some people are damaged, whether born that way or becoming that way (through a variety of causes - injuries, trauma, illness, etc). They can usually find a place and a purpose, especially if they can become functional, but they're still damaged goods.
I would say that was easy. But you proved every point.
Katana wins. Flawless victory.
My life has fallen apart and I don't know how to get it back together because of my ADHD. I feel I need help getting help... Simply knowing I need to call or see someone isn't enough. I ran out of people who I thought wouldn't shame me for what they see as irresponsible/selfish behavior... I'm at the point of UA-cam comments section being what looks to be my least adversarial ally. Does anyone out there have any productive advice for me please?
Though I must say, the video quality is superb with the advertisements in high definition.
this is like all the same things with me (aspergers syndrome)
I have three friends, a mother and her two teenage sons, with ADHD. It has presented at different levels in each of them with the mother having the most difficulty. Another son with a different father shows no signs at all leading me to believe that ADHD was reinforced by the father from the first marriage. All this to ask if it is considered an inherited syndrome?
As a recipient of a "minor" traumatic brain injury 60 years ago I feel for all those who go through life with undiagnosed mental difficulties. BTW, minor just means you're not dead, you just sometimes wish you were. lol
@@GJM000 🤣😂🤣😂
Typos. Proof reading is extremely boring and thus very hard to do, so it doesn't get done. This hurts me at work all the time. Eg one time I got a lower performance rating because of my 'poor attention to detail'.
But proof reading pays off! Look at that message! Not a single typo. I just needed to invest my ego in it, so that any missed typo becomes a sign that I am a stupid failure. That works. Healthy!
executive disfunction: my biggest enemy haha
I have addhd and social anxiety and bi polar
I've had people tell me to my face that ADHD doesn't exist.
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I had a doctor scold me and try to end my prescription because in their words, ADHD is a "juvenile disorder". Not cool.
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I don’t have ADHD, i am ADHD. Lfmao also, I’ve made a joke where i have 95HD. It’s a little more than AD. Lol get it?🤨🤣
ADHD is not disability. It's a personality type.
In the same way that we over diagnose children with ADHD we probably also over diagnose adults. If > than 10% of the population are affect it largely sounds like for many cases it's just part of being human. Humans exist on a spectrum. Not everything needs to be categorized as an illness.
2/3's of Americans have a prescription for eyeglasses or contacts. Bad eyesight is a disability because it impairs your function, no matter how many people have it.
So to with ADHD and other mental issues.
There is absolutely a case to be made that we ADHDers are not broken, but were born this way for a evolutionary reason. Our neurotypical society is largely the reason we can consider it an impairment, even though there are certainly ways that an ADHD brain might be advantageous. That said, there are also plenty of symptoms that are hard to imagine being beneficial. Difficulty mustering motivation to do routine tasks, even simple ones, is never helpful. And having a hard time holding conversations without forgetting what I was saying in the middle of a sentence. We try our best to play to our strengths, but not all of the symptoms are salvageable.
@@jliller not quite the same, but I understand the argument. Anxiety is also something that every human deals with for instance, but we don't diagnose every person with anxiety.
@@DemonEyes23 Anxiety is nearly always a bad thing. The only question is whether the severity and frequency are sufficient to classify as a disorder.
@@jliller which... Is what I just said...
Wait…you pay taxes? Ever been late? How many years?
This woman needs to upgrade her microphone.
Hyperfocus and difficulty focusing are symptoms of the same disorder, sounds like they need to be broken up into different disorders.
Look at me, look at me, I'm special, me, me, me. More millennials and now Gen Zers are diagnosed that anyone other generation....falsely diagnosed due to more just being narcissists and having parents who want the titles, or "mom/dad" but don't want to do the JOB.
BOOP.. 1st like.. Oh squirrel!
subbed for 10 years aaaaaaaaaaaaand unsubbed.
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