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Out of them all, I usually have the least symptoms of ADHD. I definitely don't have the hyperactivity, and only have a bit of inattentiveness when I'm very tired. The only one I have is occasionally losing items/forgetting to bring them. People sometimes think I'm not listening, due to lack of eye contact, or because I might ask a seemingly unrelated question afterwards (my brain works fast and goes through all the possibilities of cause and effect for something)...but I am listening quite carefully (I do appreciate that it really doesn't seem like it, though).

I understand ADHD is pretty bad to deal with, and the negative stereotyping is as bad as it is for Asperger's Syndrome. Please don't think I believe the negative stereotypes of that illness. Although I normally have no symptoms of the illness when I'm in good physical health (good food, good sleep), I feel like I can sort of understand it when I'm tired and not eating properly.

I don't have dyslexia, but I can sort of understand the way they think, especially in terms of concept of time and lateral thinking.

I have dyspraxia.

Bipolar I can sort of relate to since I've had depression.

Tourette's...well I have vocal 'stims' (do they exist?), though they're not involuntary tics.

I picked Tourette's. I may have vocal stims and eyelid fluttering.

I have some mood issues. When I had PMDD it felt like bipolar. A few weeks content, a few weeks angry/sad leading up to frustration and depressed/suicide feelings.

I have both hyperactivity and inattention. Slightly ODD too.
That's ok about the whole stereotype thing. But like AS, we don't believe ADHD is an illness.

I may have mild dyspraxia. I have to wear posture correctional shoes and my finer movements are very slow.

I relate to a lot of dyslexic symptoms. That could ADHD though. The usual mixing up words, reading one word as another, forgetting phone numbers, moving text, unable to pronounce new words, etc.

I voted dyslexia but now I wish I could pick ADHD instead. I have great ease with written words but I have some of the other things associated with it I can relate to. Oh well.

It's called a disorder, like mood disorder. I consider depression an illness - because you can both develop it as response to life events and environment and be born with a tendency towards it. ADHD is more like AS in that you're usually born with it. You can, sort of, 'catch' depression (although it's not a communicable disease), but not AS or ADHD. I was born with a tendency to depression, but I think of it as an illness because it makes me feel 'ill' in a way AS doesn't. Is ADHD the same for you in that it doesn't make you feel 'ill'?

ADHD is my natural state (by that I mean I'm usually medicated most of the time). So it doesn't feel like an illness even though I can switch from being hyperactive to inattentive throughout different parts of the day.

Is your inattention more likely social exhaustion or sensory exhaustion? I suppose do to tiredness or stress symptoms can become worse.

I picked dyslexia because I don't have any trouble reading (other than attention issues).

Dyspraxia is what I have worst and could probably qualify for a diagnosis if I got evaluated. I still can't swim or ride a bike without falling off of it and I drop things and run into things all the time.

I do have a diagnosis of depression even though I rarely get depressed anymore (I got severely depressed during high school).

I do have a couple involuntary tics that are not stims, but not enough for it to be Tourette's.

Let me see,
i fit the DSM's description for ADHD (mainly for inattentive), but I know about the attention issues of Aspie's,
Tourette's: I had tenths of tics, 1 or 2 per year (at the very least) since I was a kid, had several kinds of tics, throat clearing, blinking, moving my neck, making an "mmmm"-like sound,bitting my lips and sneezing (this last one I particularly hate it, as people think I kidding them, or that I had just a bad cough),stuttering (while being quite) and several others I don't remember, for quite some years, i think since I was 8 or 9 y.o. It has barely gone better with the years, though when I have a tic and I'm under stress it's still awful. I know the differences between my tics and my stims. I think my echolalia is coz of the AS. I think I could have been diagnosed w/ it if my parents wanted
Dyspraxia; I think it's due to the hypotonia (not diagnosed), I'm remarcably clumsy, I can't even run fine. I have symptoms of the 2 dyspraxias, MDD and the more complex DCD. My short-term memory sucks, I have problems following spoken multi-step intructions and of course, as any good aspie, I've SID/SPD, I just learnt to differentiate right from left some months ago (I'm 17 yrs old), and have problems with clockwise/anti clockwise,etc
Mood Disorders; I have had several times of depression and of hypomania, full months of dysthymia (except for 1 or 2 days). My last dysthymia was horrible, I could barely survive at the end of every day, I coudn't concentrate, I felt hopeless, I was tired all day (I slept up to 15 hours a day, my regular is between 6 and 10), I was extremely irritable, I went from feeling miserable and with suicidal thoughts (several times per day)to feeling as if I were god in 15 minutes (I know this last one isn't commont in dysthymia or any other kind of depression), I didn't care a thing about anything. My hypomania isn't nearly as severe and I can handle with it quite fine, I feel suddenly too creative, I'm euphoric as I would never be, I feel awsome and magnificent (though not to an extreme), I don't care a thing that you're listening at me or not, as long as you don't argue with me, I feel perfect with just 3 hours of sleep (and I could sleep less if my mother didnt pressure me). I think I "may" have cyclothymia bipolar II
At the least I don't have dyslexia

I only have mild Dyslexia when it comes to numbers in particular. I have mild Dyspraxia, in that I drop stuff and trip and run into things a lot, but I can ride a bicycle and swam well enough to become a lifeguard when I was a teenager, I only really have ADD when it comes to auditory learning, though I can show incredible attention to written or physical tasks. I also have extreme Anxiety associated with attempting to cover up my AS for 37 years (I was just diagnosed officially last week, so I just thought I was crazy for a really long time, which I think can make anyone a little batty), but I don't really have any Tourette's. I don't really think verbal stims count as Tourette's, as I have learned over the years to control them in public and replace them with less-noticeable physical stimming.

Interesting poll. Thanks!

I put in my vote for dyslexia, though it's really a toss-up between dyslexia and Tourette's. I'm actually diagnosed with everything else on that list. The funny thing is, when I was four, a guy who evaluated me for learning disabilities thought I might be dyslexic, as I had not yet chosen a preferred hand, and that's apparently an early sign. I do occasionally transpose letters/ numbers when writing. I never had any trouble learning how to read, however, and I always tested as reading well above grade level.
I don't have Tourette's, though I do find myself blinking far more than the average human, and my face may occasionally twitch when I'm especially stressed and/ or uncomfortable. Photos of me seem to indicate that I make a lot of odd facial contortions.
I have some features of all of these conditions, but I seem to have fewer symptoms of dyslexia than any of the other poll options.