Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder.
Yes, an actual disorder. There are several variations and it is often waved off as a "rumor made to sell Ritalin" by the ignorant, arrogant, or some frustratingly ludicrous combination thereof. As a teenage girl with a fairly severe case of this myself, I can honestly tell you that this is a real disorder with real consequences and real problems that have to do with brain activity.
Also, Ritalin is *not* the solution to everything, and from me that's saying something, since it did do a lot for me. However, Ritalin without family counseling, general tutoring and effort from all sides essentially does nothing. Besides, there's some bad side-effects as well; hell, the meds I'm on right now do wonders for my concentration but have made me twenty-two pounds underweight, as an example.
Girl's ADD is also different than Boy's ADD. Girl's ADD often goes unnoticed because of societal gender differences in early childhood. We're not as jumpy or wild physically, so people think we're just shy or typical daydreamers or even typical girls being girls. However, there really are myriad cases of girl's ADD which are undiagnosed.
Adult ADD is also not a myth. An overwhelming majority of people who "grew out" of ADD were really just misdiagnosed; it can be confusing, as ADD often accompanies LD's and other neurological/physiological/psychological disorders. Therefore, most Adult ADD is present, because a lot of people from the 70's and earlier were never diagnosed. ALternatively, it is part of America's insulting trend to blame everything on it.
In short, this is dispell rumors that ADD isn't real, and also to please request that those who are not knowledgeable AND those who don't have anything at all and are just bullshitting to get out of something respect those of us who do have ADD. America's generalizing has made a lot of us uneasy about our futures now that everything bad is wrongly blamed on it.
Yes, an actual disorder. There are several variations and it is often waved off as a "rumor made to sell Ritalin" by the ignorant, arrogant, or some frustratingly ludicrous combination thereof. As a teenage girl with a fairly severe case of this myself, I can honestly tell you that this is a real disorder with real consequences and real problems that have to do with brain activity.
Also, Ritalin is *not* the solution to everything, and from me that's saying something, since it did do a lot for me. However, Ritalin without family counseling, general tutoring and effort from all sides essentially does nothing. Besides, there's some bad side-effects as well; hell, the meds I'm on right now do wonders for my concentration but have made me twenty-two pounds underweight, as an example.
Girl's ADD is also different than Boy's ADD. Girl's ADD often goes unnoticed because of societal gender differences in early childhood. We're not as jumpy or wild physically, so people think we're just shy or typical daydreamers or even typical girls being girls. However, there really are myriad cases of girl's ADD which are undiagnosed.
Adult ADD is also not a myth. An overwhelming majority of people who "grew out" of ADD were really just misdiagnosed; it can be confusing, as ADD often accompanies LD's and other neurological/physiological/psychological disorders. Therefore, most Adult ADD is present, because a lot of people from the 70's and earlier were never diagnosed. ALternatively, it is part of America's insulting trend to blame everything on it.
In short, this is dispell rumors that ADD isn't real, and also to please request that those who are not knowledgeable AND those who don't have anything at all and are just bullshitting to get out of something respect those of us who do have ADD. America's generalizing has made a lot of us uneasy about our futures now that everything bad is wrongly blamed on it.
Furthermore, only 16% (!!) of the population actually has ADD, and some sources even say 6%.
So shut your ignorant mouths about us. Let us do the talking.
So shut your ignorant mouths about us. Let us do the talking.
by Tova May 26, 2005
that new band is good but since every song is placed into a different genre we have now started to say they have musical adhd
by Amadeo Midnight January 23, 2009
When one is listening to songs and just can't finish one without switching to a different song halfway through. Usually something is the song will remind them of another song and they just don't have it in them to finish the song they're currently listening.
Guy 1: Check out this new song
Guy 2: Ok man
Guy 1: Now wait, check out this new song I found
Guy 2: Don't you want to finish the new song you're showing me first
Guy 1: No
Guy 2: Man you have some serious Musical Adhd
Guy 2: Ok man
Guy 1: Now wait, check out this new song I found
Guy 2: Don't you want to finish the new song you're showing me first
Guy 1: No
Guy 2: Man you have some serious Musical Adhd
by Chame1eons September 28, 2013
When a guaranteed win is thrown away because the (supposed to be) winning team gets distracted.
Named for VanossGaming and Company, who often dick around with the last hider in hide and seek/last prop in prop hunt/ what have you. On more than one occasion, the hunters/seekers have actually lost because the remaining hider(s) distracted them while no one was paying attention to the timer, which has just run out.
Named for VanossGaming and Company, who often dick around with the last hider in hide and seek/last prop in prop hunt/ what have you. On more than one occasion, the hunters/seekers have actually lost because the remaining hider(s) distracted them while no one was paying attention to the timer, which has just run out.
Vanoss ADHD in action:
Hide and seek (Tall Seekers Edition):
The crew has the last hider (Moo) cornered in a stairwell with a bunch of boxes. There's 30 seconds left, and Moo has nowhere to escape from.
Nogla: Hey, little guy.
Moo: No! Get back! NO! Get back! GET BACK!
Terroriser: Put the box down!
Vanoss: Take the box from him!
Moo: Noooo! I didn't know you could do that! W-w-wait! Let's talk about this!
Vanoss: You trying to go out the other side?
Moo: No, no.... (The time runs out) Just kidding, I won!
Nogla: Ahhh! That little sneaky bastard! He distracted us with boxes!
Hide and seek (Tall Seekers Edition):
The crew has the last hider (Moo) cornered in a stairwell with a bunch of boxes. There's 30 seconds left, and Moo has nowhere to escape from.
Nogla: Hey, little guy.
Moo: No! Get back! NO! Get back! GET BACK!
Terroriser: Put the box down!
Vanoss: Take the box from him!
Moo: Noooo! I didn't know you could do that! W-w-wait! Let's talk about this!
Vanoss: You trying to go out the other side?
Moo: No, no.... (The time runs out) Just kidding, I won!
Nogla: Ahhh! That little sneaky bastard! He distracted us with boxes!
by Ubeenbamboozledson January 17, 2022
Having multiple messenger tabs for contacts open for example: Facebook, MSN messenger, Yahoo messenger ect. Thinking that you are concentrating on all at the same time, but kind of not following all the conversations.
Jeesh! John just typed me something completely out of context what we were discussing, I think it might have been meant for one of his other messenger tabs...he's suffering from messenger ADHD.
by pastryplease December 25, 2009
to adhd - a verb defining when someone with adhd misplaces or loses something purely because of the million other things going on in their brain.
by datingsomeonewhoisadhd September 24, 2020
by AVeryAngryDuck September 20, 2020