Whats_your_reasoning comments on Anyone here "quiet" ADHD?

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is why my parents dismissed my childhood diagnosis of ADHD. My older brother has the hyperactive type, but I am more of the inattentive type.

The outside is calm, but the inside is a tornado of thoughts that doesn't cease.

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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That definition always bothered me a lot... The hyperactivity is always there, but it's either internalised, externalised and sometimes it's both. It's the intensity of it that can vary a lot from person to person.

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[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

"I have all this energy inside and I can't use it how I want!!"

"I have all this energy outside and it's using me how it wants!!"

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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty much!

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[–] rhombus@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

That’s why they don’t use “types” anymore, they call them presentations. Any person with ADHD may present as more inattentive or more hyperactive depending on circumstances, and, like you said, some elements of both are always there.

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

I'm the inattentive type. My youngest kid is the hyper type.

We clash soooo much. His body does what my mind does.

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