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...Hyperactivity Disorder.You do not have it.
Apparently the term "ADD" was phased out in the 90s. Who knew.
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its not that its like a trend, doctors are just more aware of it now than they used to be.
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A medical disorder recognized by the World Health Organization can't simply be "phased" out. Clearly you haven't met a person who suffers from this neurological disorder. Otherwise you'd see how devastating it can truly be and quickly retract this erroneous statement and call yourself asinine and half-witted for this. You insult all those people who must go through certain difficulties every single day just to bear with Attention Deficit Disorder. I encourage you to educate yourself properly. It might just make you change your mind.
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Sppeaking as somebody who has ADHD, I couldn't agree more.
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i have to take drugs for my adhd, i hate it and everyone thinks im dumb or are jealous cause me and some of my friends have it.
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Bipolar is trending now it seems...
But that is passed on through family and my father as it... so perhaps I do too. LOL WHO KNOWS?
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Wtf is this?
I have ADHD.
And I didnt even know what the hell is was until like October lol.
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*shrugs* Since everyone and his brother started saying they had it whenever they acted like a complete a-hole.
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I was diagnosed with ADD as a kid. I didn't even know until a couple years ago. Never took any medicine and I don't feel any more "impaired" than most people. I dunno if ADD/ADHD is even a real problem. It seems like people trying to medicate the natural "jumpiness" and hyperactivity out of children. Kids aren't going to be 100% focused and well-behaved/calm, they're children. Of course, bad diet may have something to do with it as well. (Sugar highs, etc.) Anyways, when I was young, doctors were diagnosing ADD left and right and I think my generation was way over-medicated for such things, and after you've been on ADD/ADHD medication, it's hard to function without it; in fact, you still have to take (a different) medication as an adult. More money for Big Pharm I suppose. I don't know if things are still that way now.
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I thought so.
But my therapist really confused me, because for a while they thought I had ADHD, and I'm actually taking medication for it, but they also say ADD, even though I was told that ADD doesn't exist anymore, by that same therapist several years earlier.
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ADD is just ADHD without the hyperness
(I think at least
my psychiatrist uses both terms, while I was diagnosed with only ADD
I think ADD is a form of ADHD, like you can say it's both a bird and a pidgeon. Pidgeon means a bird, and ADD means ADHD
But I'm not sure though
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I remember reading once that psychiatrists have a weird habit of diagnosing 'in' disorders. These days its the autism spectrum, awhile ago it was bipolar disorder.
ADHD is somewhere mashed in there, guess kids just like clinging to popular stuff :L
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I have inattentive ADHD, but I don't act like people who fake it. I'm not just acting stupid, like they're acting. I'm the smartest kid in my school (and I'm not being narcisstic; I really am), and it pisses me off when people think that:
ADD/ADHD = stupid and/or lazy
My inattentive ADHD causes me to have real, frustrating problems. I don't fake it, and it's not cool to have.
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heres my thought processes which are all fucked up because I REALLY DO hav A.D.H.D. I had trouble all through school, teachers treated me like a special needs case, and maybe i was, i sometimes feel stupid, and or embarased when i do something stupid, other times i do stupid stuf just to show off, i will proudly admit to having adhd because 1. i have gotten over it long ago, 2. it gives a good excuse when i do something stupid, and 3. no one really seems to care theese days, other than when they are joking around bout it.
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Thank you!
I hate when people are like: 'i don't have AD-- oh look a butterfly/dog/etc.' >. >
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.......I do. :C
I don't get why people pretend they have it. It's a really annoying disorder. It screws with your grades and everything. -.-'''
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i have a.d.d
ADULT
DEFICIT
DISORDER
i <3 that band
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I swear people have their kids diagnosed with this bogus disorder to put their kids on tranquilizing-like pills so they don't have to put too much effort into raising their damn kid. D< My boyfriend being a victim of this years ago (thank God he's not anymore).
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I actually do have it. I got tested and all that shit. Well, not ADHD, but ADD. I have a lot of issues in my life because of this shit, so why the hell would people fake it? it's not fun at all. You do not want it. At all.
But, whether or not you believe it's a real thing, that's your opinion, and I'm fine with that, it's really all good.
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Ritalin was outlawed in the country it was developed and it was never meant for hyperactive six-year-olds.
This so fucking much.
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ZOMG LEAVE ME ALONE I sorry that I killed your children I have ADHD AGH
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I have ADHD.i just dont take pills for it anymore.I have not taken pills for it since the end of seventh grade.So you dont tell me I dont have it when I do.
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i love how it's become a "trend"
people are HAPPY to say they have it?
golly gee i wish i was that excited when my doctor had that talk with me
i cried you jerks
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Actually, some people have it.
For real.
I hate it when people WANT to have the disorder, and I also hate it when people say the disorder doesn't exist, because it sure-as-hell DOES.
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Exactly what I was going to say. And most of the time people won't experience symptoms if they take medicine for it, so most of the people who do have don't go around saying it because the medicine keeps it under control.
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I still rather bemused that people actually WANT to have these disorders. You should make one about Asperger's Syndrome, that's another one that people inexplicably seem to desire.
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Why... would someone want Asperger's? I've been diagnosed with it (And I have loads of other disorders I don't even know about yet) But I can't understand why someone would want to have Asperger's. O-o
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Me too (that is, I've been diagnosed with Asperger's + other stuff). I don't get it either. It seems to me like they've heard that people with Asperger's are smart and eccentric - it tends to be the socially inept (albeit neurotypical) types that most want to have Asperger's - they think it would make them look like mysterious geniuses, instead of socially awkward geeks.
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Which is kind of weird, because people with asperger's generally DO look like socially awkward geeks. I mean, I don't tell many people I have asperger's, and if I do, they usually don't know what it is. So it doesn't make a difference.
The neurotypical socially inept people need to get out more. I mean, I have asperger's and I'm more social than some of them. It's not that hard.
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I know, right? Those people need to stop looking for excuses for their shortcomings.
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Yes, they do. "I have Asperger's" isn't really a good excuse for anything. Especially if you don't actually have Asperger's. I mean, if you're anything like me, you'd try and work as hard as possible to seem "normal"
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Yeah, exactly. I work hard to keep people from realizing that anything is "different" about me! I think those people want excuses AND attention.
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Yeah.. xD I'm doing pretty well now.
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Me too.
Btw, I like your signature ... it pertains very well to the conversation we are having.
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Hahah. xD
It's something I say to my friends whenever they're being extremely weird. LOL.
So I say it every day.
My best friend stuck her head out the window of a bus once. And barked. o_o
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My friend is always telling me I must have it because of some things I tend to do and she's always telling me to go see a doctor (she has ADHD), but I don't have it, sure I might have several symptoms from it but it offends me when people think I've got it. My brother and my mother thought I had it when I was little. I don't want to have ADHD or ADD, and I don't want to find out nor go to a doctor. And people who are always saying "I don't have ADH- OH LOOK, A DOG!" just piss me off so bad.
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That's what I've been trying to tell the doctor all my life long XD
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Yes I do D:
Even my doctor said so.
So suck it.
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"You do not have tourette syndrome" should be a stamp, also
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i swear... psychiatrists say that because they have no idea whats wrong with you
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actually half the people who have been diagnosed with it don't have it same with depression and assbeurgers
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Okay I take meds for it I'm pretty sure I have it
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Please tell me you are not targeting this at even the people who have been diagnosed with it?
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I believe she's targeting the people who self-diagnose via google or just fake having it because they want to seem edgy and "cool".
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Oh I hope so.
Me and my brother are both diagnosed with ADHD and my little brother is diagnosed with autism. My parents believe I have a bit of autism as well, but that's self-diagnosed.
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Yeah when people tell me they have it they should prove it instead of making something else based off your behavior not everyone has ADHD and i think all kids have ADD i was diagnosed as a child with ADD but like all children grow out of it when they grow a little older
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