I think I have adult ADD

[MummaSue]

Then I realised it's how I am and I get through life OK. I wish I'd known earlier, as it may have made study and finishing work projects easier. Deadlines are a panic inducing challenge for me. But then part of me thinks, meh. I'm alright. I always knew I was different, so what? I've learnt to live with it - I have work arounds. It now just feels easier having a name to call it. I dont know how else to be. It's the rest of the world that aren't normal

I just wish it didn't come out as an internet addiction and I could turn my brain off sometimes....

Anyway, welcome to the club. We're the big thinkers of the world. The NT types are there to do keep paperwork filed

You are describing ME - right down to the internet addiction. I think this is where I am channelling my energy at the moment - apart from looking after DD. The minute she is asleep I'm on the net.

I got through uni by doing every single assignment the night before it was due. I'm amazed that I got through with distinction too - dunno how that happened. I knew what I wanted to do but just really struggled to do it when everyone else breezed it.

Can I ask how your GP described how you clean a room? All my life I've had comments on how I do certain things, often the butt of the jokes - not malicious ones but just enough to get me thinking that something isn't quite right.

Thanks for your input Tashybabe.

Fleur, I don't have the hyperactivity, but I am impulsive. I don't do dangerous things but I can be impulsive with money etc. Not so much now that I am on maternity leave and don't have my *own* cash to be impulsive with.

Thanks everyone xx

[AnyDream]

Ladies there are some very particular (and relatively easy) things you can do to help yourself. My DH was diagnosed as an adult too and got through a very intensive study period by using a long chain fatty acid supplement called Efalex, and by doing brain gym exercises religiously to switch his brain into the right mode for study. It really works.