So how many of us have ADD?

Shellhead wrote:

ADD was a fashionable disorder to claim in the '90s. I bet that most people who think they have ADD are actually normal. One of my friends thought he had ADD, and that always made us laugh, because he was extremely focused and intense. He sometimes got annoyed just because somebody tried to move on to a new conversational topic when he was still chewing on the original topic.

Likewise, Asberger's is the current trendy disorder, and most people who think they have it are just plain nerds.

Mental health is all a matter of degree. Drawing a sensible and precise dividing line between "Aspergers" and "nerd" or "ADD" and "troublemaker" is pretty much impossible. So go easy on parents or people who seek out the label - many of them will be trying it on, but the vagueness of the definition means that many other people might actually be having bigger problems than it might appear.

ADD, OCD and Aspergers are all Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Apparently there are a number of mental health professionals who believe that under current diagnostic criteria, all men would qualify for a minor affliction under one Austisic Spectrum Disorder or another.

You run into the same problem with all subjective diagnoses. One person's "I'm getting old so my back is sore" is another man's "chronic regional pain syndrome." We see this all the time in the United States in lawsuits. One guy hurts his wrist at work, he takes a tylenol and moves on with life. Another guy hurts his wrist at work, applies for permanent disability through worker's comp and sues the company.

ADD/Aspergers, all that stuff is the same type of thing. There is no objective diagnosis, its all totally subjective and 10 different doctors would give the same person 10 different diagnoses half the time.

ADD sells too many expensive pills to change. Aspergers is more the cool factor right now but unless money is being made via a pill, I think it will go away for the next trendy diagnosis.

I don't have it. I fit precisely zero of the gamer stereotypes.

I'm a bit too concerned with keeping my games neat and clean.

JoelCFC25 wrote:

I don't have it. I fit precisely zero of the gamer stereotypes.

you are not male?

Touché.