Around where I live, it is possible but we have the ICD.
- Emotional impulsivity (bouts of hysteria, sadness, anger, giddiness when most people around stay fairly calm instead of getting irritated - but also, sudden extreme motivation for something awesome, feeling energised for a change)
- occasional (but still bad) impulsive decision making (from where to go for dinner, spending way too much money or buying something cheap that looked tasty/looked cool/one just decided they need to get it, getting annoyed and possibly kicking something or throwing something away/being angry with an object because it was "in the way", a moment of being mean or too nice to someone who doesn't deserve to be treated like that - but possibly also acting suddenly unusually quick, agile and energised in emergency situations)
- being absolutely motivated for something or losing all motivation for something, changing opinion (liking something or disliking something seemingly "out of nowhere"/although normal people wouldn't change their opinion nearly as hasty and would think it through first if something had happened)
- "jumping to conclusions" (silently accusing someone despite lack of evidence, irrational concluding that one is at fault)
- impulsive clever or silly associations and ideas that seem to come out of nowhere (is very connected to the attention deficit however) and wanting to act on them (not necessarily succeeding to even start putting them into action)
- and the occasional impulsive physical "outburst" (sudden short moments of physical activity or being loud and noisy and obviously stubborn about a topic/decision).
are common clinically recognised symptoms for many of those (here in Europe) who have a diagnosis of the hypoactive type of ADHD/ADD/ADHD-predominately inattentive type.
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Autism + ADHD
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett
17 Jun 2012, 3:07 pm
