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Hello, I just started my membership today. I was "diagnosed" with ADD a few years ago. I put the quotes around the word diagnosed because a therapist reluctantly agreed to treat me for ADD based on my own reporting and some testing that showed there was about a 30% chance I had ADD. But I've long suspected there was more to it than ADD. I was given Adderall to take, but although it seemed to give me energy, I don't feel that it helped a lot. I seem to live in my head. I become distressed when forced to concentrate on what's going on around me for a prolonged period of time. I flap my hands, (since I was a little girl, and I'm 58 now), when I get excited or frustrated. I used to do it all the time, but now I suppress it when in public.. I cannot convince myself to keep the house clean. It almost looks like a hoarders house now as I sit here. I have obsessions galore. I wonder if all these tendencies fit the profile for autism?

it sounds awfully familiar. every aspie I know has such issues.

Hi ya and Welcome.

Thank you for the welcome!

Many other things could be the answer besides what I am posting here.

Try another medication. Or the diagnoses isn't ADD(or adhd) but something else such as autism, or another disorder.

Thanks for the advice, but I've stopped taking any medication for years. For one thing, I am uninsured. I was only in therapy at the time I was "diagnosed" through the Dept. of Rehab, but I've been working full-time for years now, so they are not an option anymore. I'm not looking to get a new diagnosis. The first one was enough of a struggle. The testing I was given didn't show more than a 30% chance that I even had ADD, and the person testing me said that if I had it at all it was too mild to present a significant impairment. They were reluctant to even treat me for that, but agreed to give it a try. Anyway, I have no faith in testing, experts, or meds. I'm really at this point only seeking to understand myself and my behavior better. Because some of it is self-destructive, and causes me a lot of guilt.