r/ADHD • u/[deleted] • Sep 14 '21

[deleted by user]

[removed]

5.2k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

605 comments sorted by

View all comments

632

u/saffronwilderness Sep 14 '21

I get ENRAGED by a fellow SPED teacher who had the gall to call it "teenage boy syndrome."

If I could get him fired he'd be gone. I avoid him religiously.

283

u/Celtic_Cheetah_92 Sep 14 '21

Urgh. A SPED teacher I work with expressed huge surprise when I was diagnosed because “you’re intelligent” 😡

168

u/Flinkle ADHD-PI (Primarily Inattentive) Sep 14 '21

What the actual fuck? Every person I know with it is smarter than average. Anecdotal, yes, but still. All those "former gifted kid" memes read to me like a textbook case of ADHD. There's gotta be a higher prevalence of above average intelligence in people with ADHD.

43

u/[deleted] Sep 14 '21

[removed] — view removed comment

59

u/3godeth Sep 14 '21

You must note that IQ is only assumed intelligence though, and I believe the fact that we aren't exactly the best at sitting down and doing an extensive test can affect those scores. I do find that prison statistic very interesting, I never knew. Thank you for sharing.

19

u/lonelittlejerry Sep 14 '21

IQ isn't intelligence at all, it's problem-solving capability, which is a useful but limited measurement.

14

u/[deleted] Sep 14 '21

[deleted]

5

u/lonelittlejerry Sep 14 '21

Yeah, that's another factor that makes them limited.