Anyone know an ADULT with ADHD?

What are they like? It’s a little different than kids cause adults don’t go to school anymore.

If you don’t know anyone with it, no need to tell me so.

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Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M

My wife struggles with this and it is very challenging. She finds prioritizing tasks very difficult and small unimportant things distract her from big important ones. She runs late all the time. Grocery shopping and meal planning are impossible. Her room is a mess.

The condition is sometimes overdiagnosed in normal energetic kids, but it can be real and quite debilitating. What else can I tell you?

NiftyWhite · 46-50, F

My partner has a lot of those symptoms too. He often talks without thinking and it’s embarassing at times (or else he’s just not that smart) and he’s VERY disorganized. He can’t take a moment to put stuff away or clean up the tools he was using. Extremely forgetful about stories he’s already told me 1000 times before. has obsessions about stupid things and lets everything else go. can NOT remember names to save his life. To find something in the house, even if it’s put away correctly, there’s no chance in hell he will even know what i’m talking about never mind know where it is. @Harmonium1923 Sometimes he makes comments that are rude and sounds arrogant or like he’s putting others down. For example his siblings got his dad gifts for father’s day and we took him out. He commented that gifts are lame and experiences are the way to go, not once but many times as if to put the siblings choices down.

Harmonium1923 · 51-55, M

It sounds like he has some really negative attitude issues along with whatever else is going on. My wife would like nothing more than to give our dads Father’s Day gifts but she can’t get through the process of planning ahead, ordering it, wrapping it, buying a card. That makes her angry with herself (which spills over to anger at others) and ultimately gets her frustrated and depressed. It is a tough cycle. But her heart is is the right place.

NiftyWhite · 46-50, F

@Harmonium1923 Oh he has no idea he sounds rude. he’s prob not even trying to be rude. he just says what he thinks and i have to bring his attention to how people will perceive it then it makes sense to him. Btw the gift was MY idea. Otherwise there prob wouldn’t have been a gift from us. He called to order tickets which was great cause that means he got to talk to someone and he didn’t have to focus on anything that needs doing! hahaha!!!