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question Intelligence linked to personality? / ADD / ADHD , Charlie Gordon , 27 Dec 2008 05:29
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Intelligence linked to personality? / ADD / ADHD
From: Charlie Gordon
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 05:29:50 +0100
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Since I can remember I have had issues with ADD / ADHD. From pre-school until about late middle-school, I was extremely hyper active and constantly got in trouble. I was a military brat, and got to know the administrators at every new school quite quickly. However, I was also at the top of every class, including my gifted classes, everywhere I went. I think I was intellectually bored and found other unproductive ways to keep my attention. I was also quite self-centered and got pleasure out of being the class clown along with showing off how much smarter I was than everyone else.

As I began to mature during late middle-school and early high school and calmed down, I squashed my social awkwardness and had quite a few friends, which I had never been used to. I quit showing off in class and was well liked because I wasn't constantly begging for attention.

Unfortunately, as I made that personality switch, I also began to notice a steady decrease in my grades and performance. I became bored with subjects like math, history, etc. because there was little creativity in them, and no more incentive to work hard at them as I didn't want to be a show off any more and didn't really have anyone in particular I felt like competing with. In college, I barely passed most of my classes because I never cracked a book and stared into space during lectures. Many of my friends in college hated our classes as much as I did, yet they could still somehow find the motivation to study and retain the material while I couldn't help my mind wandering off somewhere even when I really tried to focus on what I was reading.

I feel like Charlie Gordon, the main character from Flowers for Algernon, slowly losing my intelligence and consciously realizing that I used to be capable of much more learning intensive tasks.

I can't take prescription drugs because of my current job, and don't really like the idea of solving the problem with pills anyway. Would appreciate any advice...beyond the obvious solution of finding things that interest me more...I want to go back to being able to do anything well that's put in front of me.

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