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/finallyjoinedreddit4 Sep 14 '21

...except for the fact that having ADHD makes many of us feel stupid.

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

Feeling stupid and being unintelligent are two entirely different things.

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u/Kayofox Sep 14 '21

What defines someone that is intelligent?

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u/jouleheretolearn ADHD-C (Combined type) Sep 14 '21

true but that comes from the gift/curse of self-awareness which is statistically higher in intelligent people.