Mensa ADD Special Interest Group 225 Members
Update. Now 530 Members
The next time some moron tells you that you can’t have ADD because you did well in school tell them about this.
There’s a Mensa Special Interest Group on ADD / ADHD that has 225 update 530 members now. You have to be a member of Mensa to join and to join Mensa you need a verified IQ of 130.
Here’s the intro to the group
What happens when someone has both a high IQ AND attention deficit disorder? What if one or both go undiagnosed? There are many geniuses who are lost, both to themselves and to society, because the combined effects of high IQ and A.D.D. are not fully understood. This SIG is dedicated to sharing experiences, solutions, connections and hope at www.LostGenius.com
I found about the group here
Here’s what a Mensa member who has ADD, is in medical school and who’s blog is called Head rush described the email conversation after he joined the group.
1 minute later, I am sitting here at my desk having a brain hemorrhage because I am trying to follow the conversation thread.
It was like listening to Good Will Hunting after drinking 97 cans of Red Bull. Nothing like 100 people firing off intellectual jokes and then forgetting to tell the punch line and instead discussing the chemical components of rocket fuel.
One common thing I notice in some of my ADD coaching clients is that they found school easy, and very boring. They often got A’s with little effort. Because they did well in school the often were not diagnosed with ADD, because of the mistaken belief that if you have ADD you do poorly in school. Many people I know with ADD seem smarter than average.
Many ADDers do have problems in school and especially the 30% of them with learning disabilities. But not all do. Many ADDers are also gifted. Google “adhd gifted” and you’ll find 2,900 hits. I did pretty well in school and university, made the dean’s honours list and got one of my essays published. Main problem was ADD related procrastination, time mismangement and associated stress, i.e., cramming for a final the night before.
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I have adhd or something haha yeah I couldnt do anything in school I thought the system was really stupid… well I know its stupid.. you dont need any of that stuff… anywho.. I failed a lot in school but mostly in math the math doesnt make sence to me just sacred geometry and pi..
I did great with independant study… I got an A in government class because I got to do it all on my own.. eveyone in my high school class got the highest of a D… now theres obviously something wrong with school if supposedly “normal” kids are failing.. when I kid like me got an A and Bs in other subjects I would normally fail in school. i got a C in math after always failing.. at least I got to understand alittle of it.. haha
The world needs to meet the needs of the new wave of evolutionized children. and stop giving them chemicals. that makes kids act all out of balance cause their bodies arent ment for chemicals… only real fresh food.. you know they kind we all have forsaken for the past century.. the past comes up to bite the world in the butt.
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Comment by Antoinette April 12, 2007 @
“now theres obviously something wrong with school if supposedly “normal” kids are failing.. when I kid like me got an A and Bs in other subjects I would normally fail in school.”
Not really, some ADDers do really well in things they’re interested in school.
less chemicals in food would be good for everyone, but they don’t cause ADD. see http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/02/09/whats-the-2-genetically-inherited-condition-in-the-world/
Comment by Pete Quily April 15, 2007 @