:edit: you misinterpreted!?! While I was typing up that huge essay of a response, shit! I hope some of this is still useful.
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Everyone I have ever met who has been diagnosed with “ADD” exhibited creativity far above average.
And I do agree with the fact that those who exhibit symptoms called ADD by some psychiatrists have more right brain activity, it makes no sense to claim that those who cannot focus are better at logic, rationalization, and analytical thinking.
But ADD is not a disease, but just a difference in the way someone’s mind works. I do not understand the notion that people have nowadays that if someone’s consciousness is not totally continuous with everyone else’s, that that is somehow wrong. No. It’s not wrong, everyone is different, and mental function and consciousness are no exception. Those who have been diagnosed with ADD, such as myself or shatterspike, have no disorder or disease, there is nothing wrong with us, our minds just work differently than other people’s minds. We focus on things outside the realm of this plane of reality, and can focus intensely on other mental planes, and focus upon concepts, and we are then able to focus on individual pieces of information based on how they relate to various abstract concepts. It is just a different form of consciousness, not an illness or disorder. And medication does nothing to help, it does not change your consciousness, it only masks it. Because what happens when the pills wear off? That’s right, back to “ADD consciousness”. What people need to do is learn to integrate the way their mind works into the way society is set up and into the way other people’s minds work, which does not mean changing your own consciousness in any way, but rather reconciling your consciousness with theirs, realizing they are different, and working together to create a society that caters to different modalities of thought. This brings me to another point about ADD. The pills. In my lifetime I have taken Adderall, Dexedrine, Ritalin, Strattera, and Concerta. These pills are poison, and I advise all who are taking them to stop right away. I will mention Strattera(Atomoxetine) first, as it is the one I know the least about. All I know is that I was put on it by my doctor, and within hours of my first dose I could not eat nor get off the couch. I was a zombie, a very sick zombie, and never took that again, nor cared to learn anything else about it. The others, however, are a bit more interesting. For those of you on drugs like Adderall, Dexedrine, Ritalin, Concerta, Desoxyn, and many others, let me ask you this; do you realize you are taking legal speed? That’s right, all of these drugs are derived from amphetamine, which is a close chemical cousin to methamphetamine, the infamous crystal meth. Adderall is made of amphetamine salts, Dexedrine is dextroamphetamine, Ritalin and Concerta are methlyphenidate, and Desoxyn is methamphetamine itself. The doses of these drugs is usually given to you is about half what one would take if he were trying to use amphetamines for recreational purposes. Still feel safe about those drugs? They are extremely addictive, bad for the heart, hard on the brain, all of the negative side effects you hear going on with street meth use goes for these drugs, sometimes to a lesser degree, sometimes to a greater degree(though usually lesser). ADD is a sticky situation…
