i need ligical answer no advice unless you *have* ADHD... continued...?

Question

Crap i ment to ask but through myself off with explaining the adderall... i to know how do i act normal or behave nicer without my adderall need... i act wierd and if you brows through my other questions you;'ll see why!

Answer 1

I have ADHD and am 27 with a number of friends and I am happy with the people around me. I currently take no medication for my ADHD.

I didn't start out this way, no no no. I had no real friends for a long time, up until I was about 20. I didn't know how to treat people, I still am impulsive but before I became more positive and polite, I was rude to people and just generally acted in a way people usually do not, singling myself out and ostracizing myself from a lot of groups.

My best advice to you is the advice I took myself - This may take a long time, it took me years, but learn how to watch people, how they act towards others, and try to figure out WHY they do this or that. Also, try very hard to *accurately* understand people to a degree - if you don't understand why someone reacted in a certain way to something you did, try to imagine someone else doing that to you, or doing it to someone you know and understand. This will give you insight into others, and will allow you to see just why you shouldn't act the way you do at times, and you will see what might be a better way to act. Just keep try try trying this.

Remember a few tips - resisting impules is good much of the time - that is - try to think before you talk. This is very hard to do with ADHD but keep trying.

You CAN learn new ways to act, over time you can genuinely teach yourself better ways to act in front of other people, and it won't be faking either - once you understand the differences, you will feel more comfortable - *improve yourself*!

I don't know about you, but I have been through a few psychogists, psychiatrists, social workers, and the like. Over time, I understood THEIR work better, and applied some of those concepts to understanding other people. If you haven't had a similar amount of therapy, don't be afaid to ask people you trust about others' behavior. Get insights from other people.

Think before you speak/act! Ask yourself, if I did this, what might happen, and try to imagine it.

Don't be afraid to be unique, but being friendly and a true person matters!

You will lose track of things at times, but I used to have severe ADHD, as a kid my parents considered putting me in a group home. I had tried medications but they caused other problems. After trying very hard for a long time, my problem diminished some. My friends help me keep my stuff straight, and so do writing and reading and thinking about all sorts of things, including current events. Now I am a manager at work - something I never imagined myself doing. I still forget some tings here and there but if I am able to keep myself together this good, from where I have come from, I think you can to~


People will judge you, don't sweat it, just do your best.

Good luck!

Answer 2

Lists and labels. Force yourself to complete things.

You are not weird, you are you. Simply because some of us are "scatterbrain" doesn't mean we are broken or wrong. It's a style, not a disease!

I'm not sure when society went to this expectation that if you don't act exactly the way OTHER people expect you too (organized, focused, etc), that something is wrong with you.

You are creative, unique and not cramped in style by a compulsion to have things a certain way. Most of the best inventors, genuises, artists and visionaries have these traits.

Answer 3

1. just get a bit more organized about what you need/want to accomplish, perhaps keeping lists in a notebook, like I do, in the one I carry in my shirt pocket.

2. Consider yourself Nature's RESERVE or SAFETY person. You see, while everyone else is running to leap off the cliff, the few of us who are ADD/ADHD are over here trying to remember where we were going to be after the meeting...

So, we are the 'Natural Selection' reaction of Mother Nature to all the stress in our species, in the modern world, and we will make sure the species survives the many 'Lemming' events...

Some of us actually create, or invent, stuff that no one else could have!

Answer 4

I know people that used to have it, but then they stopped eating sugar and proccesed foods and they don't have it anymore. You could cure yourself if you really wanted to.
Oh, ok, then I guess you dont want to.

Answer 5

Dude check this out! ANS: #1 is You with ADHD. ANS: #4 is You without ADHD.........Pick one!