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Dude, I don’t care one bit what the baby “thinks” at this stage of his development. I have a brain, and that brain needs to run. It doesn’t shut off, so I keep it busy. Folks want to say ADHD doesn’t exist, then fine. I just have a very restless mind. And that mind constantly needs to be processing information. This isn’t a waste of energy. This is me feeding a very large animal so that it doesn’t get hungry and go looking for food in more destructive places.

@@oakleavesandonions771 is there a difference between ADD and ADHD or are they the same thing?

@@one7deep7savage7 From what I’ve read and been told by professionals, it’s all one thing- ADHD. However, that condition has different presentations that vary by the individual.

@@oakleavesandonions771 Wow. I have ADD according to the people who tested me in like 9th grade but back then they said the opposite and that ADHD was a different and was a Hyperactive Disorder (hense the name it made sense) and my best friend at the time had it. I just had trouble paying attention in class but he was bouncing off the walls 24/7. Even our medications were different I think mine was ridilin and his was Adderall or vice versa. But fast forward to Now they say there is no difference in the two what's so ever. That's why I wanted to ask you.

@@one7deep7savage7 So, I was diagnosed at 10. I was given Ritalin (which I refused to take) and told I had ADD. Years later, in a conversation with my clinical psychologist father, I mentioned having ADD and he corrected me and said it was ADHD. I told him, “okay, but at the time they told me it was ADD.” To which he replied, “Well it’s always been ADHD.” Whatever, Dad. 🙄 I didn’t get any follow up care after being diagnosed and handed the bottle of pills. I was kind of a problem student in school. My teachers were constantly suggesting things that might be wrong with me to my parents, and ADHD got brought up and forgotten along with hearing loss, epilepsy, and mental retardation. So, I was in my early 30s before I revisited the subject of ADHD. By that point, I was living with a self diagnosis of “I’m just weird, and I’ll try my best, but there are some things I suck at” lol. Clicked on a random RU-vid video where a woman talked about her ADHD symptoms, and realized we could have been twins. Did more research. Apparently ADHD is currently divided into 3 categories: hyperactive, inattentive, and combined. I always believed I didn’t have ADHD because I knew kids with the hyperactive type, and we were nothing alike. But when I read up on the inattentive type, it described so many of my problems perfectly. Which was very exciting, because the organization tools people with ADHD use tend to be different than the ones used by folks without ADHD. I still have problems, but my life has improved since I started developing management strategies to deal with it.

So, that’s the annoying thing these days. There’s multiple definitions of the word “trans”. I don’t think of myself as trans. I’m an autoandrophile, which is definitely the cause of many transgender people’s transition. But not all autoandrophiles choose to transition. I personally have decided not to. However, by the most popular definition of transgender that is currently being used, I would be considered transgender. I find that annoying because if a word doesn’t have a clear, functional definition, can it really be used as a word? But, yeah, having said all that, yes I am trans- but only on a technicality. (So don’t expect me to be going to pride marches or waving any 🏳️‍⚧️ flags or anything.)

@@oakleavesandonions771 Thanks for the honesty and also I'm blown away, like i would have never guessed it in a million years, you should be consultant for ppl transitioning, I can't even tell

@@Coolman1985 I’m a biological female. I never transitioned.

@@oakleavesandonions771 Gotcha, thanks for clarifying