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Since we've been kicked off FFA for the week, please feel free to continue the anon discussion here. Apologies if this is a big flop - I've never made a DW community before!

The rules are vaguely the same as they are over on FFA. Please refrain from being too much of an asshole, making personal attacks, posting identifying information or engaging in transfail.

ETA: If there's information you'd like to see archived (journal/blog posts related to Andy, etc.), please dump it here and link to it from the main post for discussing.

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It's probably worth pointing out that ADHD and ADD are often used interchangeably. I've have multiple different doctors refer to me as having one or the other, and which name is currently popular has flipped back and forth a couple of times over the 25 years since I was diagnosed (mostly because, IIRC, there are three specific "varieties" - inattentive, impulsive, and hyperactive - so putting Hyperactivity into the name of the disorder can be misleading or outright incorrect).

I'm a teacher with a Spec. Ed. background. I complete agree they are used interchangeably. They are supposed to mean different things, but most people list them together. Even the checklists I fill out has them listed ADHD/ADD.

What the current literature that we work with tells us: ADHD, aside from the hyperactivity part which can manifest physically, (the tappers, the vocalization, the need to move etc) these kids have trouble focusing because their attention is being grabbed by everything that is happening around them. They can't focus on the one thing, because of the ten other things happening that someone else would be able to filter out. ADD is where the person has a hard time focusing on anything. Their mind is wandering internally. These are the kids who will talk about going on a mind trip in between questions.

Please note, I'm not even saying this is medically correct. I'm not a doctor and don't diagnose. But when a parent walks in with a diagnosis, this is what the literature tells me it means, along with what strategies to use.

I can only speak for my experiences as someone with ADHD but yep - that's it. It's pretty much the hamster being in a wheel 24 / 7 and never getting off. Even during night time I generally have to have something to settle me because if my body is about to give out my brain is still going.

I could almost see Andy having it ADHD for the shser amount of work he puts into things and the speed at which he posts and writes but the content generally falls along the same lines. In my own Tumblr I will generally switch around, make quick comments, and BS. On Andy's it always seems very, very intentional.

The plus side of it is the hyperfocus. My best was a full game program in one night and writing a 34-page story in one go. And I can in no way see it as personality disorder per se, I am always in control of me even though I have to be more aware of my voice volume, fidgeting, word choice, etc. My other coworker who has ADD (if I understood him right) doesn't display any of the above but he says it's like having a dry erase board full of EVERYTHING compared to the one note on the door of people without.

- the Virginian

in the latest DSM (version V, DSM is released by APA) ADHD is the encompassing name for all these things, it has several types - http://www.help4adhd.org/en/treatment/guides/dsm exactly as this anon says

of course, not everyone (including MI professionals) is 100% up to modern jargon so you get a lot of different ways of saying the same thing

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