So smart, but struggles to keep up with homework
I just stopped doing homework altogether. It stressed me out, so I avoided it completely. Besides, I learned a subject by reading about it in our textbook, or studying it in class. I felt like homework was just busy work, hammering in concepts I had already learned in school.
I aced all my tests, but lost tons of points for never turning in homework, so I graduated high school with about a C average. It didn’t matter; I got a great IT job in the military, got an excellent pension and full medical/dental benefits for life, and fully retired as of 38 years old. Who needs homework?
ADHD can also have tie-in with minor symptoms of ASD, which could negate the overly-emotional part. Or at least the outward expression of it.
Since you never said what your acronym for ASD is, I’ll just tell everyone that PineRune is referring to Anal Stimulation Disease.
Anal Stimulation Disease You sound like an expert. Please elaborate on its association ADHD.
I mean some of those are literally just normal kid things.
Most of them are.
I hate these horoscope type ADHD memes. Everyone has an attention span, and no-one has perfect attention. ADHD is when these problem become so troublesome they’re an actual DISORDER.
ADHD Diagnostic Trends: Increased Recognition or Overdiagnosis?
But…does ADHD = smart? People that like to talk about having ADHD sure seem to think so. I’ve known some attention deficit, super hyper kids that were not at all smart. These people seem to think the diagnosis is a straight shot to MENSA.
But…does ADHD = smart?
Yeah definitely not.
Bad school success /problems behaving at school is one of the hallmarks of a diagnosis for ADHD. Well, used to be at least, before it came whatever the diagnosis process is today…
A kid with an attention deficit and a hyperactivity disorder is definitely not a model student nor some misunderstood genius.
No. That’s the problem with memes that offer a limited set of symptoms with no nuance or context. There’s a lot missing from the infographic, along with ADHD being a spectrum. Not all people have classic symptoms, don’t have all symptoms, and have varying degrees of difficulty.
ADHD people can also be people that give up on doing much anything and don’t try in school, getting bad grades, because they can’t hold and organize information the way normative people do. They’re not dumb, they just have a really hard time absorbing information in traditional ways taught at schools, along with having a hard time focusing on that info.
It often appears that way in children, but obviously isn’t an actual indicator of intelligence.
ADD discussions are full of the self diagnosed and people who are in wildly different positions on the ADD scale. Naturally a lot of people look for identity and it’s a thing to latch onto.
So you were told you were smart constantly as a kid, or you have some ADD features and get the whole “ADD is my super power” people.
Some with ADD also get that impulsivity issue around other people and make themselves look like bigger jackasses than they generally are.
I have ADHD and don’t know if I am smart, I am just really good at the stuff that interests me and struggle really hard with everything else. Fortunately my jobs interests me and I now know how to get into the flow. But other stuff like paper work is still incredibly hard for me. Now that I have it more or less under control I would not want to change, as I love the occasional fixation on new ideas in and outside of work.
For example on the one hand I did a PhD in my field of interest and it went really smooth, but on the other hand I struggle to brush my teeth every day…
Childhood? Still fit most of those!
What would have been the biggest difference had you known back then?
Years later, I was finally able to accurately describe jobs I didn’t want to do as a child - such as homework - as grey lumps of goo piled up as a supremely undesirable blob on my desk, while everything else was a technicolour kaleidoscope of distractions.
At the time, however, I just didn’t have any way to pass on this impression to others, so they could understand.
