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ADD is just old terminology. You have ADHD, and you should read up on some updated science cause you got some very weird, very wrong ideas about your own condit
by luckydata 4y ago
ADD is just old terminology. You have ADHD, and you should read up on some updated science cause you got some very weird, very wrong ideas about your own condition.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33549739/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33549739/
- davidktr 4y agoYou told someone with AD(H)D to read that document to get a better idea about attention deficit disorder? You cannot be serious.
- luckydata 4y agoI also have ADHD, I can read it fine. Would a better presentation help? For sure. But we're not stupid or incapable of performing simple tasks.
- ysleepy 4y ago[...] 15 The clinical presentation of ADHD can be described as primarily inattentive, primarily hyperactive-impulsive, or combined, depending on the nature of their symptoms (American Psychiat-ric Association, 2013). [...] I assume ADD is nowadays just a shorthand for the primarily inattentive presentation.
- luckydata 4y agoI use it that way too cause my non-native english tongue struggles to pronounce the H but saying "I don't have ADHD, I have ADD" is really specifically and factually wrong.
- klysm 4y agoI find this distinction to be confusing and not particularly useful. Brace for armchair science!: Although it may present as primarily inattentive, the hyperactive stuff can sneak through subtly. I think it becomes un-learned a lot of the time by adulthood such that the DSM criteria don't _seem_ to apply as strongly but it can very much still be there. At least for me, I think I have 'learned' to be more 'chill', but I still can't help myself from interrupting people a lot of the time.