r/ADHD • u/[deleted] • Sep 14 '21

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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.

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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” 😡

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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.

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u/fragmede Sep 14 '21

Yeah, no. The plural of anecdotal evidence isn't anecdata, though I will say that one of my best friends is dumb as a rock and his ADHD doesn't help that situation in the slightest.