I LOVE Adventure Deficit!

That resonates with me so well!

nailed it 🎉

I have an adventure everytime I try going grocery shopping

@@theintica I felt that

Love this name!!

Ok that sounds awesome

Nope. Won’t work in DFW Texas as that is the name of the mass transit system. Dallas Area Rapid Transit

Nice

I absolutely love this name I think we should fully consider this name and rename adhd DART

I'm sharing this with my wife, it's a beautiful description of a very common situation. Hope all is well for you!

I love this idea because it is so relatable. I have never been diagnosed with ADHD but I have always felt like i was different. In primary school I just thought I wasn't as smart as anyone else because i struggled to focus unless it was something i enjoyed doing.

that is me a 11 year old with every single song i listen to

Yes hy focus mode😅

❤​@@onceinabluemoon52

​@@onceinabluemoon52you are not alone❤

I agree. I can relate to having that problem of boredom intolerance! 🤣

Hahaha it doesn't explain it but it does nail it 😂

@@SweetyHelen92 It's simple we don't tolerate boredom and is what makes us behave the way we do. We don't have an inability to pay attention unless we are bored to death, which lowers our dopamine levels! 😂🤣

I can totally relate to this.I can't sit alone with my thoughts I need to do something with my mind (even if it's just scrolling tik tok)

For some people that would work, but not me. My brain is almost always racing and I’m always exhausted by it. I don’t notice feeling bored, I’m sick of my brain trying to constantly sprint

Or forget to even make the dentist appointment... Oops. Now, time to set a reminder on my phone to do that.

His books with Dr. Ratey are great. Of course I listened to them instead of reading them because …. ADHD.

I love that name that is a good name.

I vote for VAST.

Definitely the front runner in Penn’s new name contest

That's great!

I had a similar experience in 7th grade, but my teacher hadn't been diagnosed at the time. We just really got along well and then years later when I ran into him at a chinese place he was all "DUUUUDE, I get it"

This is awesome!

Same here, I'm so glad my daughter has her awesome teacher from age 4-7 at school (they have the same teacher in the first 3 classes). She is one of his favorite students and it resulted in her having lots of self-esteem and being able to laugh about the goofy symptoms ❤🎉😂 I'm not sure he is diagnosed but I'm pretty sure about him having it, but it helps him in his job!

I’m 13 and have adhd, my second grade teacher was a nightmare, when I kept getting distracted, she would pretty much put me in detention, my schools version of detention was called “the time out room” it was a 6x6 room with only a desk and a very unstable plastic chair, my parents had to actually pull me out of school and put me in virtual school, I’m returning to in person school in august for 8th grade, I hope I have a better experience. By the way, she is still working at that school, I checked the staff lists.

Yeah, same with ASD. It’s not a disorder, it’s a key part of my personality. It’s not like a tumor, it’s who I am.

It is to most neurotypicals, seemingly...

I agree 1000%! (Yes, the extra 0 is intentional) Being different is HUMAN!

@@thedarkbardI have both, and I refuse to see myself as inherently disordered. I have mental health issues, and those are disorders that I need to fix, but the innate physical structure of my nervous system and the way it works is not disordered. It's just different. Society is disordered for not being inclusive enough.

@@Weirdisjustabrownandyellowword I can’t tell. Are u agreeing with me?

good one!

Love this

Love it!

Yes. This one

I like it!

I've had a problem with the two words Deficit & Disorder. I haven't ever had it, but, I know some people who DO.

I have it and I love having it. I can't remember a lot of stuff but I love writing and it really helps me out so much when it comes to focusing on things and I'm trying to publish a book now to. I know what triggers it the most but sometimes it's just being around my friends that makes it worse. All my friends care about me and if they don't like my adhd then they can go suck it. My daughter may have it to and it's fine we can be crazy together. I'm supposed to be on mess but who needs mess when you got a pen and paper lol

I'm sorry you feel so bad about being ADHD. My whole family, Dad (deceased) Mom, in her 70's, brother, sisters, and I (female), all in our 50's, all 4 of my children, likely both of my granddaughters, all function this way, as do most of our friends. My sister -in-law(neurologically normal) is so non-typical of our associates. The poor woman doesn't follow our humorous conversations, find our favorite movies funny, and other things. She is the abnormal one, but we adore her anyway. I hope, from here on, you can embrace our different ways of approaching life as just that, DIFFERENT NOT DEFICIENT.

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@@calebbarnes5652 My comment? 😅 I do tend to ramble...

E.E.A.T.- Everything, Everywhere, All the Time! 🤣

With the initials of this one, Penn could make an adaptation song for YMCA!😁

Woohoo! Neurodivergent parents, spouses, and creative workers for the win! Autistic lady here who loves to support everyone under the neurodivergent umbrella, which includes you lovely ADHD folks! :)

The only thing I can hyperfocus on is reading. I can literally wake up start reading and not stop until the sun goes down or even after.

@@snoopygonewilder Do you EAT…………………? 😳 😱

​@@robbymounce5764 As someone who has done this in more than one occasion. No. Unless someone else drags you out the room and you can keep reading while eating, no, you do not eat.

I wish I had a Kim. It’s different for women, who are traditionally expected to organize and maintain the family day to day. 😔

You and I (and many others) are just ADD, without the H. But the DART idea covers us, too!

Yeah, I didn’t think I could have ADHD (granted I was a young teen at the time) because I could REALLY focus on things my brain happened to find interesting, and had never been hyperactive, even as a wee tot. Turns out these are both part of ADHD-PI or, as I like to put it, ADHD without the H! 😁

"WHY CAN'T YOU JUST STAY STILL?" "I try, really." "Just try harder!" Oh, because that works…At least now, at 49, I actually know why!

Yes, my whole life only for me it was more that my sensitivities weren't real and I was over reacting. Total mind fuck

I have ADHD, but aside from my jiggling legs, all of the H is inside my head. I also have multiple autoimmune issues, and am fatigued 24/7, so I feel like I'm even failing at having ADHD 😫

lol. OMG. I got the "I... would really hate to tell someone not to read so much, but..." speech when I was like in 5th/6th grade. I also learned the word "procrastinate" when I got the "You're so smart. I don't understand why you always procrastinate," speech.

Okay, we're like the same person. I was born in 1973, same issue, and I was just diagnosed a couple of months ago, at 49. Now I'm like, "Suddenly my entire life makes sense…"

Same, girl! Same!

Yes! It's a disservice. Then so many people spend untold amounts of time and energy trying to "fix" themselves instead of living their best life and bringing their awesomeness to the world! It's a difference, not a disorder.

"normal is a setting on the dryer" 😂😂😂

Pat, right there with you. Neurodivergent is a term I’ve heard a lot of people identify themselves as. I’ve embraced it, too!! I’m neurodivergent, not disordered.

@@tamsintimmers3812 Yes! Rock on! ❤

well i am broken but that has nothing to do with my adhd while directly i have perment hole in 1 of my ankle bones.

Can relate to so much of what you said. I'm 38 this week so know what you mean about the attitudes in education then. Although not enough has changed even nowadays.

Love the courage!! ❤ But not the anomalous, because i want to get rid of the notion that the others are normal and we aren't, just cause there are more of them.😢

AFN sounds pretty nice, actually. I can see it working for other disorders too, such as Asperger’s syndrome (autism).

Or shorten it to Functional Neurodiversity- _Fundiversity_ !! 🥳

@@llamasugar5478 I approve of this suggestion! The redundancy of “alternate” with “diversity” was really bothering me. 😅

How about Creative Alternate Neurodivergence (CAN) 😊

Functional Uncontrolled Neurodiversity (FUN) "I don't have ADHD, I have FUN!"

Very true! However it won't get any attention there without input (insistence and ironically attention) without an external drive from patients and physicians seeing patients. It has to be brought up multiple times from multiple sources before that will even start. I say this as a physician with ADHD. And currently stuck in (and enjoying it!) this short video while waiting for my medication to absorb enough to do charts and staring at an Epic screen. In 30 minutes I could have worded this better, but hopefully I will be being productive in mandatory tasks at that time

Finding BBQ sauce in with the coffee mugs and dish soap in the fridge. I just laugh at myself. I'm 52 and was diagnosed at 49, my son has ADHD and Autism (I have autism too lol wonder where he got it from?) lol

I tried putting bread away with the plates today.

Agree with all this, except...having a learning disability doesn't mean you're not intelligent. So, true, ADHD has nothing to do with intelligence, but neither do learning disabilities. In fact, the presence of intelligence happening at the same time as the lack of a skill is one way we know a learning disability is happening.

@@kathyteel7696 you are absolutely correct! My point there was just educating on old school judgements to the neurotypical can be exhausting. Hopefully my comment didn’t seem insensitive to learning disabilities ~ that was not at all my intention. I’m thankful to live in an era that we are learning more and more about the intricacies of neurology everyday! I find it all fascinating.

My daughter was super quiet. Turned out she was dyslexic…a word processing problem. She could not get words out of mouth fast enough to have a conversation. She was a very frustrated extrovert but 2 days on Ritalin and everything in her brain sped up so words could fally come out of her mouth as she thought them. It was 10th grade and she could finally talk & make friends! The Ritilin also helped her get organized and be calm so then we realized she was also ADHD.

You should see my stack. No one else can touch it, or the whole thing will collapse.

I love that! "I need input!" Number 5 needs more input! I so feel like that a lot of the time. (Short Circuit the movie)

I'm self-diagnosed. Also a Mensa member. My wife just rolls her eyes. She's used to it. Did you ever seek help from a professional who told you that you deep down wanted to be hyper-focused and absent-minded?

I chose my username back in the 90s when I was researching my own suspected AD(H)D. I was finally diagnosed in my 30s, after a lifetime of typical girl symptoms. You know the drill. Noisy boys get treatment, daydreaming girls with our heads in a book get told we’re lazy. Still, I wouldn’t give up my creative, funny mind for all the A’s I didn’t earn. (And as a huge musical theatre fan, I adored this.)

@@hyperfocused7029feeling ya, here. I was diagnosed at 49. But I was famous for having my head stuck in a book on road trips. And I managed to screw up a report in 3rd grade because I spent so much time on the visuals I forgot to write the actual report! And I LOVE this song!

I bet you’re familiar with this oft repeated scene from my childhood road trips: “Look, Hyper, there’s a giant ball of string/pasture full of horses/landmark! (A few miles pass until I get to a good stopping place and look up at the window) “Where?”

I'm a mom of two girls who are also close in age. The youger one is diagnosed with ADHD and the older one is not. It is sometimes hard on the older one because though she does great academically, she isn't as social or as good at sports as her sister. The thing is, I think both of my daughters have ADHD but different forms of it. Their dad probably would have been diagnosed as ADHD if it had been a thing during his childhood. I was the good student, like my oldest daughter, and never thought that I could also have ADHD but he showed me that I do (undiagnosed) but have learned to use my unique skills as a benefit, though sometimes I find it hard to concentrate because my mind is being extra hyperactive and going too many directions at once.

Yep, keep an eye on the neurotypical dsughter! My younger sister is only one year younger…and I was the ADHD gifted athlete with boundless energy and enthusiasm. She was always good, quiet and got straight As…but I got all the attention and smiles. As an introvert, she was crying inside and none of us noticed. She spent her whole life trying to get approval from our parents…even got a PhD from Stanford and I am just a Mom who hops from one part time job to the next. Somehow she’s still crazy jealous. Can’t ever get over the attention I got for constantly being late and forgetting things and throwing my energy wherever family needed it.

I have twin boys, one clearly has ADHD, the other doesn't. I have it (I will finally admit), and it helps that I can recognize and be able to relate to my one son's experiences. On the other hand, it is frustrating, too seeing myself in him LOL plus dealing with people calling him lazy, inattentive, etc. Yet, he is extremely talented with so much potential. Sadly, people only focus on the negative and a lot of people who don't have it don't even want to try to understand. It is one of those things that is really hard to explain.

Love that you feel proud of your super power!

thanks for sharing!

Pretty sure the guy who does Fire Department Chronicles is ADH, and he is awesome!

Don't forget the gals!!

DAVE, yes!

And they killed it with dysfunction! Sigh

Okay, now I'm gonna have to look this up. At least it's sort of more specific?

@@Penny-ts5ec that's what I said

Why dysfunction… don’t get my wrong it can suck but sometimes it’s like “stand back while I turn my ADHD on and kill this project in a surprisingly short period of time! Oh and no one interrupt me!”

What?? How?? That's a thing???? Not adhd here at all lol

Just rewatched it at double speed, and you are so right!

Oh my gosh I almost always watch KZfaq at double speed. Glad I’m not the only one. I wish there was a double speed setting for everything

Love that you watched it at double speed

You should check out the videos by "how to adhd" as well. She's great too.

Oh wow, thank you for letting us know.

3rd grade in 90s after round about explusion from k called me a spazz it sucks

I am glad that I have never been "normal" or that my brain functions differently than most! As a child growing up in the 60s and 70s I heard many of the same things you heard Nancy as well as being called "difficult", "disruptive" and a daydreamer. In grade 5 my desk was placed behind a bright yellow pegboard screen because I was told I was a distraction to my classmates! They sent me for different types of tests, without my parents' knowledge or consent but I never got any proper diagnosis until now. I've spent most of my life struggling, without help or support until recently, and being the outcast, the "black sheep" of the family. Not only do I live with ADHD but also Celiac Disease and IBS.

It might seem like it sucks that all your kids share your neurodivergence. However, I think it's absolutely wonderful, because you know about it first-hand, having it yourself. This way, you're able to teach your children valuable coping strategies and how to maneuver through life with it. My mom, throughout her life, had struggled with me and my sister, because her being neurotypical, she never knew what to do to help us, and all she ever wanted was to have an answer. We get our attention deficit from our dad, but although he was never properly diagnosed, he had all the tell-tale signs, from childhood to now. He also never really cared to get diagnosed, just kind of accepted that he wasn't "normal". My sister and I are only recently coming to terms with our neurodivergence in our adulthood, but we understand each other so well thanks to it. It's a strange little bonding tool in its own way. I often worry about having kids who could be born with my neurodivergent traits, so to speak, because I would never want for them to struggle the same way I did growing up. However, my sister told me the same thing I'm telling you: it gives you an edge as a parent, because you'll give them the necessary tools and tricks to work with it, and therefore know how to help. Be happy, knowing that :)

@@majormana1 I'm so sorry. 😞

@@Indie_Calls thank you. I never thought of it that way.

That t-shirt saying is hilarious! I love it! 😆

How can I get that shirt?!?!?!?

That's the one Connor de Wolf came up with - I was trying to remember the name, thank you!! I have it on a sweatshirt

@@betharritt yes it is I truly believe it too. My husband has ADHD and he loves calling it DAVE

That acronym doesn't really make sense though. ADHD isn't just about Dopamine. Medical terms need to be accurate. It's long thought that ADHD also impacts, at least, norepinephrine, serotonin, and GABA. There are other neurotransmitters involved as well. DAVE doesn't work as a medically accurate initialism or acronym. ADHD is also faulty, but it doesn't do anyone any good to replace bad with worse.

I agree with Dave.

Agreed. I like DAVE!

thank you!

@@theholdernessfamily Any time!

I love this suggestion! nurohyper is a much better way to put how our brain works in different but not necessarily negative light :)

They include hyperactivity now because our BRAINS never ever stop thinking (even if our bodies are lounging on the couch!!

I heard that they did that because the hyperactivity is still there but more internal in some. Like people can be physically hyperactive or have an incredibly hyperactive thought life.

Exactly!! And it's treated as negative because those of us that have ADD don't fit in that tidy, controllable little box that our culture deems necessary!

No! That completely wipes out the strong traits. I get why you want teachers to understand but consider how you want your child to identify themselves as well. The way I see it there is no "delay" it's more like a difficulty to regulate the level of attention we pay. Sometimes we can't filter stimulus and stay on task but some other times we can filter so well that we hyperfocus and forget to pee, so it's important that the teachers also highlight the stronger traits and not only the struggles. They should keep in mind to point out the positive traits the children have and not be harsh on them with the struggles

I like that one as someone with adhd I want a name that explains the problems of disorder better I know some people want a name that sounds nicer but people already don't take adhd seriously and if sounds nicer then they really won't take it seriously if explains the problems better then maybe people will stop saying it's not real .

It does require treatments of different kinds, though, and that can’t be done if it doesn’t have a name. Our whole family was absolutely drowning for a long time until we were able to get my son diagnosed and find the right medications for him. It was nothing but anger, explosions and misery most of the time. 😞 Though love is always a great suggestion!

Yes!

This explanation is what helps me as a mother of an ADHD’er.