Posted by Johnturner77 on June 22, 2000, at 14:30:08
In reply to Jack of all trades ADD?, posted by wayne on June 22, 2000, at 13:04:19
> but now I WONDER,
My story is similar, IQ135... learned a lot in school, but got mostly poor grades. Dropped out of high school. Walked in one day a took a GED and got 99 percentile. I've gone to 7 colleges but only have a two year degree. I've done a lot of different things. I even stuck with a computer job for ten years while the kids were growing up. I have an MCSE now which is supposed to be the ticket to 60k +, but I have been out of work for several months. Bad looking resume...I guess. Now I'm discouraged.
It only recently occured to me that I might be ADD. I took an on line inventory some where and had a higher score for ADD than for depression. I grew up without TV and did a lot of out door activity including walking home 2.5 miles everyday from school. I was taught to read before I went to school, but couldn't read out loud fluently until I tutored reading as an adult. Myparents kept me off of sugar and caffeine. It seems that my parents just naturally did all the things that are supposed to reduce the symptoms. If I had gone to public school and had to depend on teachers to teach me to read, no telling what kind of mess I would have been.
I remember responding well to street amphetamines except in situations that were naturally anxiety producing, but stayed off them because they had such a bad reputation. I forced myself to avoid them.
Now I have no friends. Mostly because I avoid them...My kids didn't call for father's day and my new wife is threatening to kick me out. Everbody likes me...:>) I am really a nice guy. I can "knock em dead" with all kinds of interesting factoids. I am even a good listener though I may be bored out of my mind ...Just maintain eye contact smile and nod...
My exwife always said I was depressed, except when I was excited by something new, then I made her nervous.. but most ADs made me so scattered that I was non-functional. Prozac cost me a job, though I was only on it for a couple of weeks. My doc, who is an internist won't touch Adult ADD(thanks to the DEA I presume). I can't afford to go to a Pcych right now... Maybe I scrounge up the stuff to make some crank. Lets see at 10 mg a day... 4 grams would last me a whole year!
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