Do I have ADHD?

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I'm hyperactive, impulsive, easily distracted and almost always bored. I fist most of the criteria for ADHD. On the other hand, I'm very perfectionist when it comes to something which I like (like video games or accounting), which means I rarely miss a detail when doing one of those things. My job, for example, requires constant attention to monetary values, phone numbers and names and I'm pretty good at it. With those facts in mind, I have two questions:

1- Do I have ADHD?

2- Can an individual's Asperger's interests (or obsessions, if that is how you call them) be "immune" to the attention deficit present on individuals with ADHD?

If my suspicions holds true, I'm autistic, depressive, hyperactive, hyperlexical... Should I start charging people for seeing me?

I am not sure if I am correct, but a persons with a diagnosis of ADHD, can be hyperfocus which means if they are interested in a topic they can concentrate on it for x amount of time.

How you discribe yourself does fit ADHD, look up hyperfocus hope it helps!

I was going to say the hyperfocus thing. The same area of the brain is affected in autism and ADHD so it is possible to have both.

I have my special interests, those interests I will spend all day on and if not all day I will constantly think about them. I will bring them up in conversation and I will probably forget about what's happening around me.

Hyperfocus is a sudden interest in something that I just read up about or spend time on. It never lasts longer than a day. Although for other people with ADHD it is weeks and months. Hyperfocus is usually being immensely focused on something to avoid doing something more important.

I have an attention to detail too though I can overlook things, usually those that don't feel as important to me. I can't spend hours and hours on something and put all the details in (example: drawing the spaceship from Stargate Universe).

So you could possibly have ADHD too.

I've got autism and possible ADHD. I have met parents who's kids have autism/Tourettes/ADHD! So yes it's possible to have both.

I have Asperger/tourettes and ADD, so I guess its possible... Although I must say I have doubts about my ADD dx.

Yeah, hyperfocus pretty much sums it all. Specifically...



Generally, when I'm focusing on something, it's precisely to avoid doing another, more important and boring activity.

It seems that I do have ADHD. Next, on WrongPlanet: does Magnus_Rex have hyperlexia? To find out, he'll have to ask about his early childhood to his parents without raising suspicions. Will the Hyperactive Crusader be up to this daunting task? Stay tuned, same WrongChannel, same WrongHour!

Wouldn't it work to just ask "When did I learn to read?"

That's what I asked my mother a few months ago, before I brought up Asperger's with her.

ADHD does not mean you cant focus...it means you cant control your focus. Your focus should with within your control to harness for whatever reason, but people with ADHD or ADD their focus seems to control them.

I have been diagnosed with profound ADHD as well as PDD-with autistic traits as a kid.

There is this guy that has a theory that based on how many people have ADHD, he thinks it is not a disorder, but an evolutionary difference between hunters and farmers. School in the US was created by farmers and farmers think totally different that hunters.
Farmers are patient, focus on long term goals, not impulsive, adaptible to routine, imunne to bordom (so it seems), and can stay on a boring tedious task without much problems, have a great ability to plan and carry out that plan with delayed gratification.

However hunters on the other hand, must have an ability to hyper focus, be able to pay attention to everything around them while glancing at what they are doing, have the ability to make quick desisions and execute them quickly, and have quick bursts of energy, seek short term rewards with little need for delayed gratication or routine, and thrive on a high level of adrenalin, be willing to change tactics on a dime all these things become a disorder in a farming mentality society.

I tend to agree with him based on the number of people with it, that it is just an evolutionary difference

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According to her, when I was 3 years old I was reading and writing simple words. A few months later, I was reading comic books. To be honest, I can't remember being able to read or write anything besides my name until I was 5, but my own memory is not the best source of information about my early childhood. But I remember spending most of my childhood closed in my room with some encyclopaedias.

On the other hand, I don't read that much nowadays. Except on the internet. And whenever I don't have anything else to do. And by "anything else", I mean mostly video games. In fact, I stopped being an assiduous reader ever since I got my old PlayStation One, back in August 11, 2001.

By the way, I think I just answered my previous question in this ridiculously long post. Thanks for the help!

No problem!

I was hyperlexic and used to be a voracious reader. I still like to read but I don't read nearly as much, except for what's on the internet.