There didn’t seem to be enough people to keep another BB active, so I’ll just start this here. The idea is that we share experiences and ideas, ask questions and commiserate with each other.
Today I have three questions:
How you you characterize your ADD-affected self?
What are your ideas for a group name?
What questions to you have for your fellow sufferers?
My answers are:
Well, the jury is still out on whether I have Asperger’s or Over-focused ADD (or maybe I’m just an anal-retentive ass) but the thread intrigues me. May I join in?
Seemingly disorganized; ritualistic; obsessive but lazy; I can take any situation or scenario and break it down into the worst possible effects, impressions and actions in a matter of minutes.
“Look! A Monkey!” or LAM, for short.
Has medication helped you or just those around you?
Has therapy (non-meds) helped anyone?
Anyone else labeled as “very negative” by people who refuse to see that being able to see the negative potential in anything can actually be a helpful thing? I think it’s a marketable skill.
I’m focused when I have a deadline, but fall to pieces without a schedule (imposed by someone else): there are usually too many things I want to do at once, and I often do nothing productive because I can’t settle on doing just one of them at a time.
2. What are your ideas for a group name?
“Did I ever tell you about the time - oh, look! shiny!”
3. What questions to you have for your fellow sufferers?
Does medication help you want to do fewer things at once?
How do you cope without a schedule?
Distractible
Cecil’s ADDled Squirrels
None, because it’s 5:40 am and my brain isn’t working yet.
TLDR
ooooh! Shiney!
what was the question?
I do not, as fas as I know, have ADD, but I’m the Queen of Contingency Planning. When I prepare the Plan for a project, I don’t give people the whole Plan… only its main line(1)… but the complete Plan includes what to do if different resources are unavailable; any instructions include lists of errors and how to fix them…
At the same time, I made a long time ago the choice to not let my ability to see upcoming potholes drag me down. Seeing a pothole is a good thing: it means we can avoid walking into it!
1: chosen because it’s the one whose communication I believe is most likely to lead to success. Success is a given, if I’m on it: I do not say I’m going to do something unless it is doable, therefore if I’ve said I’ll do it, it means I will - sooner or later, depending on which resources I have available (unless someone who speaks in all-caps intervenes, but if I stop having myself available as a resource, it’s not my fault).
Note that I haven’t said this line I tell people about is the most-optimistic one: I do things like say “we need this info by Monday the 11th” where I’ve already taken into account that we actually need it by Friday the 22nd and worked in the delay which I know will be caused by that guy who never starts tasks until they are overdue, his boss who insists in being present for every telecon… that puts us on Tuesday the 19th, leave some buffering in case of my own bosses coming up with something ultraurgent or of a key player having some other problem… and yep, we end up getting it all by Wednesday the 20th at the latest 
This is my favorite so far!
Monkeys?
Yes, monkeys. 
Well, it looks like we got distracted from starting a new thread this week. Shocking
I have a question…have any of you who have taken medication found that it dulls your creativity? I’d like to be able to concentrate more, but I’m afraid that not paying attention to everything at once would mean that I won’t get the same ideas for stories etc. It would suck to be able to focus, only to find I have nothing to focus on.
I find the opposite is true. Without my meds, I cannot focus long enough to work on a project or keep going back to finish a project instead of starting a new one.
Oh without meds, I have no attenion span, feel like there’s loud and constant static in my head, have massive trouble following directions, and have even worse impulse control than usual.
I was diagnosed back in second grade or so. I’m currently on 54 miligrams of Concerta a day.
“Week 1” <snork>
1.) In a fog, with disorganized thoughts and unable to follow what other people are saying.
2.) Got none of my own but “Space Cadets” is awesome!
3.) Anyone else find stimulants to be ineffective? I’ve found adderall and its ilk give me hyperactivity without doing much for the attention deficit. NRIs like stratterawork better for me.
I found that stimulants altered my creativity dramatically, specifically my music. I began writing songs that were more punk and less new agey.