Narrative: My Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

I am disconnected, lacking contact with reality. It happened in an instant and gradually intensified over time. October of 2015, I had just turned 14 and everything was average, mediocre. I was subdued at this time for reasons I cannot recall and hadn’t been talking much in class. The issue commenced in chemistry class in what lasted a second but felt like a lifetime. The class had been divided into groups, and we were assigned to create a poster. After half an hour of doing the entirety of the work myself, the poster was completed, and I was satisfied with it. Each group was to choose a person to represent their group and explain the poster. Fortunately, I was not chosen. After each poster was presented, they were each taped to the whiteboard

People all over the world have sounds that rarely occur that irritate them, like nails on a chalk board, a fork scraping a plate, or car alarms. But sometimes every day sounds that most people barely notice, other people really notice. Some major examples are sounds like chewing, nail tapping, swallowing, and the clicking of a keyboard. These individuals do not notice these sounds more because they want to; their mind automatically detects the sounds and continues to focus on them. These people usually become enraged by the sounds they hear because a switch inside their head has been flipped to activate a negative response. This oversensitivity to small sounds is a mental disorder called Misophonia. It is a

Hi! My is Ginger and I am 40 something (lol). I am married and have 4 children and 2 granddaughter & expecting another grand daughter in Oct. I am currently in grad school and I have just been diagnosed with ADD. How in the world can someone in their 4o's just find out they have adult ADD?

After a few sessions they could say for certain that I had Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, from then I was prescribed a

Many characteristics isolate me from the rest of my peers, but my learning disorder has been a burden to my life ever since I was born. While some of my classmates absorb information with simplicity, I sit behind them lost and confused. I have attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, more commonly known as ADHD. Although learning is not easy for me, it has given me the ability to find alternative paths to overcome obstacles.

Have you ever gotten so furious before you felt like nothing mattered? They just kept on doing something to you and you just kept on getting mad.Then someone tried to talk to you and you just weren't in the mood to be talked to or bothered . You reacted in a horrible way by hitting and yelling. Well that's exactly what I'm writing to tell you about. How my anger got a hold of me and would not let me go. How I wanted waffles but my mom gave me something else instead.

I was diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder when I was fourteen. Thoughts of germs plagued me everywhere I went. I wasn’t necessarily afraid of getting sick; I was just obsessed with everything being germ free. Before touching anything, a rundown of the possible germs on it consumed my mind. Everything between an outstretched hand to a school desk traumatized me. Who knows the last time this person washed their hands? Who knows what type of people could have been sitting here before me? Everything was a mystery, so I didn’t touch most things. It was tough to get through a day without coming in contact with something that made me uncomfortable. Touching school desks and textbooks were inevitable, so I carried around a bottle of germ-x with me everywhere I went. I’m sure my classmates got sick of the stench of hand sanitizer; it got quite old after the 20th time I put it on… that hour. Everyday was a battle inside my own mind, and I knew something had to change.

There are three types of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. There is the predominately hyperactive-impulsive, predominately inattentive, and a combination of both predominantly hyperactive-impulsive and inattentive. To be classified has having the predominately hyperactive-impulsive type you need to have at least five of the following symptoms: often fidgets or taps of hands and feet, runs around and/or climbs things when not acceptable, difficulty waiting for his or her turn, interrupts or talks over someone else, talks excessively, and being unable to play quietly. To be classified as having the predominately inattentive type you would need to have at least five of the following symptoms: fails to pay close attention to details or makes careless errors, has a hard time staying focused on a task, doesn’t always listen when being spoken to, has a difficult time organizing tasks, and also has difficulty keeping up with belongings. To be classified as having the combined

In my life, cacophony is all around me. When me and my family watch sports on the TV there is a lot of hubbub when the team we are rooting for scores or makes a good play. It also happens during one of the many hockey and lacrosse games that my brother or I play in. Cacophony is all around me when I go to a crowded city or store. It affects me in many different ways, some worse than others. I can either handle it really well, or get a pounding headache and become disconsolately until I get away from the noise. It has only happened a couple times, when I went to one dance, when I went to the Boston Museum of Science and at a friends house once.

My mom believes that I may have ADHD, or Attention –deflect/hyperactivity disorder. What this means is that I have a hard time staying focus on things for a long time. This has made it very difficult for me to do well in school. Often times while I’m sitting in class during a lecture, my mind tends to drift away to my imagination land where I find much more interesting things. It also makes it very difficult to focus on projects that need to get done. I also have a little bit of OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder, at times which can get mixed with the ADHD. Often when I clean my room, I have to take all my books off the shelf, dust, then alphabetize my books in separated groups based on the theme the books have. If I find an old drawing I was working on while cleaning my room, I stop cleaning and try to finish it. It does make life a little difficult having a mixture of the two.

Being a military brat is always hard, but my challenges were exacerbated by my extreme ADHD. Feeling constantly uprooted and the perpetual new kid on the block made it almost impossible to connect with other kids. After a while, I started to feel like the human Tesla coil: creative and energetic, but erratic, misunderstood, and perhaps a bit intimidating. Certainly not something anyone wanted to get close to. Eventually I learned that I needed to harness that energy in a different way. I channeled it into learning about technology and I came to a realization: technology has brought us to a level of interconnectedness and opportunity unprecedented in human history, and that is worth safeguarding.

There are some sounds that just drive people crazy. People who have misophonia go through this everyday. The word misophonia means “hatred of sound” and another name for this disorder is selective sound sensitivity syndrome. There are certain sounds that act as triggers for patients with misophonia, which could include chewing, breathing, whistling, sniffing, and many more. When they hear these sounds it makes them irritated, enraged, or even panicked. Many people do not think this is an actual disorder. They think misophonia patients just get easily annoyed.

My greatest fear is not really a fear as much as it is something that just irritates me. It is called misophonia. It happens when someone makes an oral sound such as if someone is chewing, breathing, sniffling, etc. It just aggravates me to no end, and it makes me feel super uncomfortable. My sister always chews with her mouth open ,which doesn't help my situation, and sometimes I swear she does it on purpose because she can and she knows I hate it. Whenever I tell her to knock it off, she always does it louder and more exaggerated than before. Plus, my mom does it to me as well. I believe it is because of the squishing and snapping noises. It also makes me displeased when other people are eating by me when

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, also known as ADHD, is one of the most prevalent childhood and adolescence disorder. ADHD world prevalence rates is around 5% and “range from 1% to 20% among school-age children (Sciotto, …2016, p. 35). There is a variability in prevalence rates across countries, which has led to researchers to question whether ADHD diagnosis reflects the norms and biases of western cultures. Even though the diagnosis are thought to reflect western cultures and norms, it has been difficult to agree professionally on what ADHD is, what should be done about it, and how it should be approached (Timimi, S. & Taylor, E., 2003, p. 8). There is a lack of specific cognitive, metabolic, or neurological procedures and medical tests for ADHD. In addition to this lack, considering the different cultures adds to the difficulty of accurately identifying ADHD. It is, however, important to realize that culture plays an important role in identifying, diagnosing, and treating ADHD. Variations in diagnostic practices, medication treatment prevalence, school system policies, and cultural attitudes influences the availability to services for ADHD (Scuitto et al., 2016, p.35).

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