The Positives of ADHD. The Advantages of Attention Deficit Disorder If you find this page useful, please share it. Participant Ideas from Pete Quily’s Practical Success Tips for Adults with ADHD Talk at CHADD Vancouver. We had 151 positive characteristics, 26 challenges and 62 ideas on how to deal with the challenges. Positive Characteristics of People with Attention Deficit Disorder Challenges for People with Attention Deficit Disorder How to Deal with the Challenges of Attention Deficit Disorder 151 Positive Characteristics of People with Attention Deficit Disorder. Too many view ADHD as mere pathology. But, if disease and disorder are the main lenses through which you view us because that’s all you’re looking for, you will miss out on our positive characteristics. While it is important to deal with our challenges, you don’t make a great living and a great life by primarily focusing on what you’re not good at. If you liked this list you might also like some of my posts on the strengths of people with ADHD at my blog Adult ADD Strengths.
25 Good Things About Having A.d.h.d. Tracy - posted on 11/20/2008 ( 55 moms have responded ) I am the proud mother of the most beautiful, briliant, wonderful, charming, delightful 10 year old boy.... who happens to have ADHD. I remember taking him to the doctor before he'd started school, he is my 3rd son, so I was not new to the male toddler. VERY active, always go, go, go! So I voiced concern to his doctor that he may be ADHD, he brushed my concerns aside with "he's just an active little boy". So when he hit grade 1, his teacher expressed to me that she felt he may have attentional issues. Thought it would be nice to share this with the parents, who in turn could share this with their kids... they need to know that while day-to-day life can be challenging with adhd... that they do posses many qualities that make them WONDERFUL!!!
The Upside of ADHD - ADHD Enthusiasm, empathy and high energy among traits the disorder carries. By Marilyn Lewis for MSN Health & Fitness Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) hasn't changed, but how experts view the disorder is evolving in a new direction. Instead of only focusing on the difficulties posed by ADHD, today, the upsides are likely to be noted, too: the quick-wittedness, the speedy grasp of the big picture and the great enthusiasm for nearly everything. These traits make ADHDers endearing and simultaneously exasperating. This change may sound like just a new way of describing the same old thing, but to those with ADHD, the difference is profound. In praise of ADHD JetBlue Airways CEO and founder David Neeleman is famously frank about his ADHD. Neeleman credits ADHD with his creativity and "out-of-the-box thinking"—it led him to invent e-tickets while at Morris, for example. Ken Melotte, 43, of Green Bay, Wis., is quick to credit ADHD for his successes, too. A "context disorder"
Why Happiness = Success When You Have ADHD | Untapped Brilliance ADDers are very hard on themselves. They are always feeling ‘less than’. Rather than acknowledge what they did today and feel good about it, they focus on the long list of what they haven’t done yet. However, if you think like that, not only does it affect your self-esteem and confidence, it also lowers your energy and makes you miserable and sad. Instead, if you allow yourself to feel pride in what you HAVE done, today, this week, month, year, this lifetime, then you will feel energized happy and can get more ‘done’ (Of course there is lots more to life than what you accomplish, but that’s another article!) While I knew this to be true, I only had anecdotal evidence, based on myself and clients. Shawn Anchor says we need to reverse the formula for happiness and success. BUT, this model is flawed, because every time we have a success we change the goal post.
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