A D D-WTF, no your just stupid.....

Please tell me why alot of slowheads, hippies, stoners and some people just in general are so quick to jump on the a d d wagon to cover up the fact that maybe they are just not the sharpest knife in the drawer?

 

Perhaps for the reason you just said?

 

My bro has ADD, meh, just thought I would share..
I didnt know people were making up having ADD..hmmm I am confused, maybe I have ADD

 

I personally think ADD doesn't actualy exist as a disease... or at least most of the people who are diagnosed with the disease don't really have anything wrong with them.

 

Ms you were the reason it had popped back into my mind, I was just reading your funny post about your work and the folks talking loud and then you said you lost track of time and it must be your a d d or somthing like that and I breifly remember all who has slipped that line during the past few years so poof thier ya go.

 

huh, sounds like you have add slow down...
I dont think I said I had add in that post

 

i was diagnosed with add a year or so ago....dont really remember when. i dont know what i think of it, i just have mental laziness.

 

I'm sorry, but ADD is real. I know 4 people who have it and you can tell the difference! I know a lot of stupid people too (haha) but there is a difference with ADD. I know 2 smart people with ADD. You can tell there's something wrong with them. They cannot concentrate. Their eyes do this strange thing I don't know how to describe. You can just tell. But I do think that there are probably a lot of people diagnosed with it who don't really have it.

 

I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's widely overdiagnosed. Where I went to school, I'd say roughly 75% of the people were diagnosed with it, yet I hardly met anyone who could not concentrate... just people who would not concentrate, simply because they were not interested, if they were doing something they cared about they seemed to have no problem concentrating.

 

I had the problem of not concentrating last year and the years before that....with homeschool tho, I'm actually learning. I'm guessing its from not having all the distractions as a public school. I'm not on any medication either

 

Dont shoot me, it was in a response to the post of yours I mentioned....

 

haha, why are you apologizing no worries..and I wont shoot you now, but maybe later tee hee...

 

Most people don't want to have that affliction but people like to label every knife in the drawer. It's a contest to see who can be as close to perfect as one can.

 

I was diagnosed with ADD, it was a pretty simple process really. the pschiatrist gave me an IQ test, and then looked at my report card, asked no questions about other aspects of my life and started giving me bottles of Ritalin.