Self Diagnosis Talk: Raise your had if you've got ADD or Dyslexia

[Razor]

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i was not very clear in my thoughts, and i apologize for that. I feel there are a few different categories of people in the whole "add" thing. there are those who have it very severely and need medication to function. i believe this to be the minority of people. There are those who may have a mild form of it but choose to medicate themselves instead of deal with one extra hurdle they have to jump over. then there are those who don't want to do things, decide they have add, or go to a doctor and confirm this, but do nothing about it, and use this as an excuse for not excelling.

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While there is no doubt plenty of truth to this, I think that this line of thinking can be too dismissive of people that fall between these the extremes, where it seems likely most people with some level of ADD would fit. I think it's difficult to really come to terms with how significant this 'extra hurdle' can be for people. We tend to have difficulty viewing thing from a perspective other than are own. This is why people that don't struggle with ADD type symptoms can be quick to label people as lazy and unmotivated.

What the general discussion in this thread has done is suggest there are a few people with serious ADD issues and that the rest with minor ADD type symptoms should just suck it up. I think that trivializes the problem.