[coopaq]

Some of the signs for ADHD from wikipedia:

"Become bored with a task after only a few minutes, unless doing something enjoyable"

"Have trouble completing or turning in homework assignments"

"Struggle to follow instructions"

"Be very impatient"

"Be constantly in motion"

"Thinks constantly being told what to do by others for 18 years kinda sucks"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity...

[Mqlpidrien]

If I read the description of the wikipedia article, I could easily think that I suffer from ADHD. To me it feels a little bit like asperger syndrome where you can pick and choose related syndrome and believe you might suffer from it when you are just a little bit asocial. To exaggerate, it is like reading an horoscope and thinking that, woah, it is exactly how you are or how this person is.

Obviously there are trained doctors and psychiatrist and whoever who can judge whether or not a kid suffer from adhd but it seems that it will be way more than 7% of kid that could get bored by tasks they are being test for and that is why adhd seen from outside the usa feels too often diagnosed.

Others have said how the drug would have helped themselves or is helping themselves but has it been shown that the drug would not help everyone who takes it to focus and perform better at test and studying or working. Since I live in the USA, I have asked the questions to college student and it seems a fairly common thing to take a pill before exam to get that extra edge for focus (granted you don't start cleaning your apartment and become very thorough while doing it).

Even if the drug could help some people, it is not unreasonable to consider whether introducing the drug to society has an overall benefit and not just a benefit to the company selling it. France has already a problem with to many prescriptions of anti depressor drugs so maybe it is not a good idea to jump on adhd pills.

[tekalon]

Personal signs:

- Not able to drive unless taken medication since every sign, pedestrian, other cars and movement keeps you from paying attention to what is in front of you (including lights, cars and pedestrians). (Like running into a tree since you were trying to admire the forest and not paying attention to where you were going).

-Stopping mid sentence/conversation to finish a sentence/conversation (whether or not with the same person) that may have happened weeks or years ago.

-Being verbally told something, and remembering it until someone else tells you something/asks for something or you see something else 'shiney'.

-Finishing someone else's sentences due to them being too slow to finish it (whether or not what I say is correct)

-Having many projects half finished- not necessarily since I got bored with them, but it took to long to finish and something else more shiney/important happened.

-Finishing a book 4 years later, always knowing where in the plot you are and what is going on, but not finishing because another book wanted to be read first.

-Saying/writing a sentence wrong since you try to say the same thing 2-3 different ways ALL AT ONCE. Also works trying to move 2-3 different directions all at once.

-Impulsivity- trying to do Everything RIGHT NOW.