On the other hand, how many of you are fast?

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I am very speedy, I try to tone it down since I am now a grown woman but I almost want to run everywhere I go lol.

I guess it varies with ADHDers as well. I've always had issues with hyperactivity but other ADHDers seem to be mellow and have slower processing speeds.

I'm slow in some areas but fast in others.

i often liked to do things i was good at, as quickly as possible--when i was a kid; i remember all through school never being other than the first person finished taking tests, working problems, whatever. some people thought i was showing off. i didn't get why i should take more time if i already knew how to do it. doing otherwise would take the same kind of extra effort it would require to walk slowly beside someone who is having difficulty walking. then, it was simply annoying to me.

i walked fast to where i was going. (luckily i didn't drive this way--for long.)

gradually i became more aware of how this affected the way people would react to me, & for the most part i stopped doing things faster than the fastest person i would observe--at a job for instance. (nobody likes being made to look bad!) --though one time working the checkout line, there was a boss who didn't have much confidence in me up until then; & when i started going superfast in order to keep up with a busy period, & he saw i wasn't making a single mistake, this caused him to start respecting me.

i actually prefer reading slower, too, these days. though i was once timed at over 1000 words per minute, i know i don't get much sense of individual words or prose rhythm at such a rate. about a fifth of that (or less) suits me better for the authors i most appreciate.

sometime into my slowing-down season, i remember playing chess with one of the local chess club's best players (& my sometime rival)--an aspie, i am certain of now. he made a point of moving instantly everytime. it seemed frantically comical to me, & i realized that i was seeing myself at a younger age.

ecclesiastes might be thus amended: to everything there is also a suitable rate of speed.

m.

When I was diagnosed, the psychologist said I've compensated for my Asperger's with my "superior processing ability." I've always been able to recall facts almost instantly when prompted, and I can do calculus in my head. I can do some math in my head faster than people can input it into a calculator.

Sometimes when I play quiz shows I can pick up the words or parts of words that trigger my brain into finding the answer. Most recently I answered Tomato correctly because the question gave the latin term starting with Lyco which I connected as Lycopene which I'd learnt is what is produced when you cook tomato so I got the answer, that took me a few seconds. So I can be when I pick up on triggering words which start the process in my brain.