Quotes About Adhd

#1. I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.

Apolo Ohno

#2. One of the great pleasures of having children is spending one-on-one time with them. Sadly, I could do that for only a few minutes at a time. I'd never say that ADD/ADHD is a gift or a blessing. And if someone says it is a gift, I'd love to return it.

Howie Mandel

#3. We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD ... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

David Satcher

#4. After I impulsively revealed that I have OCD on a talk show, I was devastated. I often do things without thinking. That's my ADD/ADHD talking. Out in public, after I did the show, people came to me and said, 'Me, too.' They were the most comforting words I've ever heard.

Howie Mandel

#5. I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as an adult, but I don't remember a time when I didn't have them. Back in the 1960s, when I was growing up, my symptoms didn't have a name, and you didn't go to the doctor to find out.

Howie Mandel

#6. One universally common trait in ultra successful people (including the ones with ADHD!) is the ability to consistently take action in a specific direction. This has three components: 1) Direction 2) SMART goals 3) Consistency

Grant Weherley

#7. That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

Hannah Gadsby

#8. It only took a few minutes, but it seemed like longer with everyone watching him. The silence was heavy, and for so many ADHD demigods to sit still listening for that long, Jason knew the story must have sounded pretty wild. He ended with Hera's visit right before the meeting.

Rick Riordan

#9. ADHD is not about knowing what to do,
but about doing what one knows.

Russell Barkley

#10. Omega-3 is central to cell function and heart health. People who eat a diet rich in omega-3 experience lower rates of heart attack, depression, schizophrenia, ADHD, and Alzheimer's disease. Omega-3 has also been shown to slow the growth of some types of cancer.

Lana Asprey

#11. What I did next was so impulsive and dangerous I should've been named ADHD poster child of the year.

Rick Riordan

#12. These diagnostic profiles like depression, ADHD, autism, dyslexia, it's half science and the other half is a committee of doctors bickering over what it should be, and it has changed. It's not precise like a diagnosis of tuberculosis would be very precise.

Temple Grandin

#13. Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

Jaime Winstone

#14. Why is ADHD so much more common in the United States today than it was 30 or 40 years ago? And why is it so much more common today in the United States than elsewhere? My answer is "the medicalization of misbehavior.

Leonard Sax

#15. Forgive your child and yourself nightly. You didn't ask to live with the effects of ADHD any more than did your child.

Martin L. Kutscher

#16. ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.

Leon Eisenberg

#17. In my opinion, ADD more aptly refers to Attention to Dreams and Discoveries, and ADHD describes Alert to Daydreams and Humorous Diversions - in

Mariaemma Willis

#18. ADHD isn't a bad thing, and you shouldn't feel different from those without ADHD.

Adam Levine

#19. extensive data also suggest a strong link between attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and processed carbohydrate consumption/insulin production.

Mark Sisson

#20. I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

Fergie

#21. I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

Rory Bremner

#22. Don't tell me you have OCD about this?"
"OCD, ADHD - pretty sure if they come up with some new acronym tomorrow I'd have it.

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#23. Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.

Darell Hammond

#24. Living with ADHD is like being locked in a room with 100 Televisions and 100 Radios all playing. None of them have power buttons so you can turn them off and the door is locked from the outside.

Sarah Young

#25. I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.

Solange Knowles

#26. I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.

Ty Pennington

#27. I think that part of my success was the fact that I would literally threaten your life if you got in-between me and what I wanted to do with my music. I was so drunk and in-your-face and so ADHD and so unhinged that I kind of got what I wanted.

Richard Patrick

#28. 808. Do not punish forgetfulness. ADHD children cannot hold rules, routines, and tasks in their minds. They forget everyday rules and tasks, even though they have been doing them for months or years. Every day is a new day in their minds, and they do not know what to do unless you tell them.

Susan Ashley

#29. It's not that I can't cook. I just don't enjoy cooking. It takes too long and you have to stand there monitoring everything, which doesn't work well for me and my ADHD.

Jen Kirkman

#30. I have ADHD. I'll admit it.

Will.i.am

#31. Behind every successful child with ADHD is a tired parent.

Jim Forgan

#32. Nothing like ADHD and a good fight to the death to make time fly

Rick Riordan

#33. If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

Will.i.am

#34. While researching for his talk, Conners had noticed that North Carolina, his adopted home state, owned the dubious distinction of having the nation's highest rate of kids diagnosed with ADHD.

Alan Schwarz

#35. When you have ADHD your home reflects our thought. disorganized and in disoray. And like with a disorganized house. you can only appologize for your disorganized brian so many time before it becomes exhausting.

Sarah Young

#36. I probably suffered from ADHD, but they weren't so quick to diagnose it back then. For PE, they'd drop you in the woods with a compass and a pack of matches. It gave you confidence that you could rely on yourself.

Will Arnett

#37. That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true.

Ty Pennington

#38. All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

Jeffrey Kluger

#39. One of the places where research is needed is all the sensory problems. And you get sensory problems not just with autism, but with dyslexia, learning problems, ADHD, attention deficit, you know, things like sound sensitivity, problems with fluorescent lighting.

Temple Grandin

#40. Frank: "I wish I was ADHD or dyslexic. All I got is lactose intolerance."
Percy: "Seriously?"
Frank: "And I love ice cream too ...

Rick Riordan

#41. They're distracted. Good thing about living in the landfill," he said. "Lots here to catch the attention of the fae. They're so ADHD.

Red Tash

#42. I figured out that whatever I selected myself I could read with more depth and more breadth - there was a match to my curiosity. And I could take advantage of what people later pathologized as Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) by using natural stimulation as a main driver to scholarship.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#43. I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle ... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

Mads Mikkelsen

#44. In the midst of all the chaos swirling through your brain, all the disorganization and impulsiveness, the condition (ADHD) also seems to trigger a certain kind of creativity.

David Neeleman

#45. Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!! Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero

Rick Riordan

#46. Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Don Roff

#47. I'm ADD and psychic. I know things ahead of time but lose track of which is which.

S. Kelley Harrell

#48. The degree to which the psychiatric community is complicit with abusive parents in drugging non-compliant children is a war crime across the generations, and there will be a Nuremberg at some point in the future

Stefan Molyneux

#49. Eden," Cyrus snapped bringing her back to the present. "I have a sword pointed at you. Will you please focus

Samantha Young

#50. So, please people, if you know someone with AD(H)D, don't try to change that about them. Don't take that one skill away, or make them feel ashamed to use it. Sometimes procrastination is all they have in their little superhero tool belt!

Stacey Turis

#51. This is not a contest with your child. The winner is not the one with more points. The winner is the one whose child still loves them when they graduate from high school.

Martin L. Kutscher

#52. Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

Julia Cameron

#53. The future of my child is unknown but I have loved him, supported him, and taught him right from wrong. I will continue to do so ...

Brenda Lochinger

#54. Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

Douglas B. Reeves

#55. I am totally convinced my guardian angel is an addict because I can't find my Adderall and she is not talking.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. Don't waste your time being what someone wants you to become, in order to feed their list of rules, boundaries and insecurities. Find your tribe. They will allow you to be you, while you dance in the rain.

Shannon L. Alder

#57. There's a huge difference for taking responsibility for one's actions, and taking credit, and in this scenario I think we need to give credit where credit is due. I won't take responsibility for my teacher's drinking problem, but I will take credit for it.

Benjamin Tomes

#58. Behavior isn't something someone "has." Rather, it emerges from the interaction of a person's biology, past experiences, and immediate context.

L. Todd Rose

#59. Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

Adele Devine

#60. If you can still wipe your own backside then life's not that bad!

E.J. Plows

#61. You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.

Katherine Ellison

#62. Do you think I'm weird because I'm wired, or wired because I'm wierd?

Jack Gantos

#63. One day I will know the face of love...it shall gaze back at me from a pool of water, undisturbed by what lies beneath.

Susan D. Taylor

#64. It's a sad day when your iPhone becomes a horcrux, witches hunt your soul and you have to seek the resurrection stone just to find yourself. I was hardly Harry Potter. There was no lightening bolt on my forehead, but if you knew my life you would have met a storm.

Shannon L. Alder

#65. What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.

Shannon L. Alder

#66. Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. They don't know any other way to live than by extremes because thier emotional theromastat is broken.

Shannon L. Alder