Whats adhd?

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Ive always wonderd wat it meant i know it is something like: atention deficit hyperactivity disorder but i never know the exact effects so im quite cuirius

DSM-IV:

http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/in ... ddsmiv.cfm

ICD-10:

http://www.adhd.org.nz/ICD101.html

ADHD is a disorder which causes behavioural problems such as hyperactivity, impulsiveness and a poor attention span. My autistic brother has ADHD. He can't sit still, has very poor concentration, is very disorganized, talks way too much and is easily distracted.
Som people with AS are wrongly diagnosed with ADHD.

So it just makes you hyperactive and anoying?

sounds 10 times bether then autism tbh =/
lol doesnt sound for me i miss lots of symptomes

You don't have to be hyperactive to have ADHD, you can just have Innattentive ADHD, aka ADD.
Yes, at times it can make you annoying lol, I have ADHD (Also AS) and I tend to annoy people alot without even realising.

No, lots of executive functioning problems, and is frequently associated with comorbids such as learning disabilities and other neurological disorders. Kids with ADHD may also have behavioral issues, and may have major problems in school. Kids with ADHD are also often socially immature, and may have trouble developing appropriate peer relationships. They also may have sensory sensitivities, just like in ASDs.

Doesn't Michael Phelphs have ADHD?

my brother has adhd, big difference from him with me, he cant sit still for anything, always on the move, no patience, its like hes on speed lol, he has a problem with being bored 247 even with the simplist things of playing cards, he has to make noise, he drives me nuts lol.

Wow your brother isn't an NT either Age.


I was diagnosed with ADD in 1995. I was suspected for having ADHD but never got diagnosed with it. I was hyper.


Also people with AS and ADHD share the same symptoms. I have read somewhere online that kids with ADD are also sensitive to loud noise.

When I was diagnosed with it, my mother knew it wasn't the correct diagnoses because the treatment I was getting for it still wasn't working and it wasn't helping me. I asked her "So I'm not truely ADD?" and she said I am but treating me like it was the main problem wasn't the correct diagnoses, so that's how she knew it was a misdiagnoses. I learned that day a misdiagnoses can also mean being diagnosed with something you have but it's not the main problem because you have something else also.


I have also heard ADHD is a childhood disorder and I can tell it's supposed to be just by reading the criteria but it's been discovered adults have it too. That's why "Adult AD/HD" has been mentioned in articles. I have also read lot of kids outgrow it by the time they're adults but then read few years later, they don't outgrow it, they learned to cope with it. I think it is because ADHD was over diagnosed in the 1990's so who knows how many kids actually had it, so as they got older, they changed so people assumed they outgrew it because they never had it in the first place.

Now I'm hearing AS is being over diagnosed and what's next in the 2010's? Makes me wonder how many of us actually have it but I am not going to go around telling people they don't have it or even start assuming it and keeping it to myself.

ADHD isn't easy because it increases destructive behaviour. If anyone saw SuperNanny on ABC Wednesday night, there was a boy with ADHD featured. He was very tempermental, he threw things like furniture when he didn't get his way. His mother had to put him in his room to get him to try and calm down but he still threw things around (a hidden camera recorded this).
The worst part of ADHD is the failure to control this type of behaviour and the child with ADHD often suffers the reputation of a destructive, uncontrollable trouble maker when really, it is behaviour that cannot be helped.

All i know is that with ADHD you can't sit still.

Most of the links above basically tell all.

I have AS and ADHD.

I could never concentrate at school
I can't sit still without moving my leg, or fidgeting.
Which includes tapping my hands on my thighs or something else.
I am easily distracted.
I can get really temperamental and argue with people a lot.
And I make noises all the time.

People always ask me if ADHD is annoying to live with.
And I never know how to answer that, because I'm used to being and acting like that.
So I don't know any other way.

I know I annoy people a lot lol.

Oh god that sounds like me when I was a kid except I did it less.

I was easily distracted in school and no matter how hard I tried, it was a struggle. I would fight with myself and yell at myself to concentrate.
I would start to fidget and get restless if I sat in my seat too long. I would get told to "cut it out" because the sounds or noise I was making was disruptive.

But at home I was fine because I wasn't forced to sit in one spot and forced to do something. But homework was a struggle. My mother had to put me in the den or have my brothers go upstairs and watch TV. I could not do homework with the TV on or I would zone my mother out when she be helping me. If I were doing it on my own, I would just be staring at the TV.

I always came home with tons of homework while other kids in my class came home with none or some. Funny thing is I had troubles learning in school but when I was at home reading none fiction books, I would learn. I even learned in school if the learning was visual, not with the teacher going bla bla bla or with me reading words words words with no pictures.

I don't think I argued a lot with grown ups and got temperamental.


Now I don't struggle with all that anymore. I got over it by the time I hit my teens. But one thing I still struggle with is my own thoughts and I cannot listen for long periods of the time. My butt will start to itch if I have been sitting down too long in a chair. I no longer make any noise in my seat or make sounds. I do not get distracted by things around me and I could do my homework with the TV on.

But I am not in school anymore so none of that appears.

I'm surprised by the number of people who claim to have both AS or autism and ADHD, being as one of the diagnostic criteria for ADHD is "Occurrence is not exclusively during the course of a Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Schizophrenia or other Psychotic Disorder", and autism and AS being Pervasive Developmental Disorders. And seems to me there wouldn't be any outside the course of the disorder (their term) for the ADHD to occur in.

DSM criterias are bull. I see them as guidelines. I can't believe I let myself listen to my ex.

Also if you read about AS, sometimes it mentions ADHD and other conditions. BTW Aspergers is on the spectrum of autism and lot of aspies see themselves as being autistic because it's on the spectrum. So they will view themselves as having autism.

Lol, nope he has autistic traits except that he has lots of friends, growing up he didnt have many just some, like ppl say hes socially immature for his age, but now hes not only sometimes. He works in nyc as some huge finance manager apart of this big firm, and he calls home at least 5 times a day to talk especially if its on the toilet he gets bored sooo easily loool, its like ahh i dont want to talk, just poop and get off the phone lool hehehe