Well Thank You! I may be a gifted poet..Because of my ability to find so many words that ryme with “Nantucket”…Who knows?:)

I’m not smoking any sunshine here about “everyone’s frickin’ special” blahblahblah…I just think that certain types of doing and thinking can SOMETIMES be a little overvalued, as they are not as universally helpful in all situations…I know lots of “gifted” people who can’t think their damn way out of a paper bag when it comes to practical details…and I’m sad to say that I find that hilarious…but come on, it’s sort of funny.

Anyway…clearly, whether you would be considered one of “those” people Scott, it is evident in your posts that you are in fact gifted with intelligence and humor

The characteristics of gifted, and characteristics of ADHD students. The complete lists @ http://giftedkids.about.com/od/giftedandld/a/gt_and_ld_3.htm. Very interesting. I don’t consider(and never will) myself gifted as a child. But I do know I was and am an A.D.D.er. I don’t consider myself gifted now(and never will).

But according to the lists…About being bored. You are very right Jeff, about.. One can easily be confused for the other. It’s wrong about me(the bored list),because I qualified. It sucks being an A.D.D.er,but it’s not that bad being un-gifted. For me anyway.

Scott.

My life had become an eccentric collage of the few times I had been able to pull my shit together, laced with disappointments caused by the less helpful aspects of ADHD. Absolutely a frustrating experience, I assure you. I’m at peace with my eccentricity now, but really am working to find treatment methods that will allow me to “better” my average for success.

When this happened,I spoke very fast,and it came out exactly that way! I could’nt finish a sentence without breaking out into laughter,from hearing myself do this.This kind of laughter is something I have been able to have before or after. I could’nt talk like that even if I tried,before or after that.

This went on for about 30 minutes. Before too long,my wife,M-I-Law,and even the nurses out at the desk,were laughing so hard,one of the nurses had to come in and tell me to stop(when she could catch her breath and get it out).

The brain/mind has ability,it seems,but tapping into it…?All I can say is, that was one of weirdest things I have ever expierianced in my life.

Scott.

The people with AD/HD who are using brainpower for coping have to use what is left over, which might be a kind of average amount of brain power. So they look to others kind of average. Functionally, they are.

Not all people with AD/HD are highly intelligent.

Not all highly intelligent people have AD/HD.

It is one of those things that just won’t die. Too attractive, I guess.

But even if it were true that AD/HD conveys gifts, SO WHATTT??

Great example! Calvin: I find my life is alot easier the lower I keep everyone’s expectations!

This reminds me of an old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon concerning school grades and expectations. The dialogue from the cartoon is reproduced below. This comes from Wikipedia. The setting is a classroom. Calvin and Susie are sitting at their desks. They just received their test scores back. Calvin explains his poor grades to Susie Derkins [a classmate].

- CALVIN: What grade did you get?
- SUSIE: I got an A.
- CALVIN: Really? Boy, I’d hate to be you. I got a C.
- SUSIE: Why on Earth would you rather get a C than an A?
- CALVIN: I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone’s expectations.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_%28Calvin_and_Hobbes%29#Grades

Here’s the “official” Calvin and Hobbes collection: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/