I’m 17 and I think I have inattentive type ADHD.
I’m really unfocused and I have difficulty concentrating. I’ll often try to make myself pay attention because I know something is important and then lose focus after a few seconds even if it’s something I’m interested in.
My teachers often say my work has a lot of careless errors or is inconsistent in quality. I struggle to get through my work even things I should be able to do like English reading.
It’s really hard for me to get through my homework even though I have an IQ of 152 (genius level). There is a lot more structure now which helps but last year I fell so far behind that I nearly failed.
I procrastinate a lot and I fail to finish projects. Sometimes I hyperfocus (ex: spending hours on perfecting the details of a sculpture or figuring out how feasible being Batman in the real world would be) and my projects that I start hardly ever get finished (unless there is structure i.e. someone breathing down my neck to get it done).
I’m super messy and disorganized and forgetful. If I get interrupted it’s extremely unlikely that I remember what I was talking about.
I forget a lot – like if homework doesn’t get written down, it doesn’t get done and I’m constantly losing things. With things like reading, I won’t remember what it was about in general but I remember the measurements of the ditch in front of the character’s house for example.
I get really anxious/sad but it’s all school based, I think (ex: OMG, I missed a day of school, now I’m going to fall behind! What do I do?! or I’m lazy and I suck because I can’t do this, etc)
I don’t know how long my symptoms have been going on. I feel like I can’t ask my mom because she’s already decided that I don’t have it and that I just a) want an excuse to be lazy or b) want drugs.
Please only respond if you’re very familar with ADHD symptoms! Thanks!