Tuesday, April 07, 2009
I have ADD? Pickles? Oh, a Lightbulb.
So there is a new study out that says adults who have ADHD and take medicine for it lose weight alot better(12%) than adults who have ADHD and who do not take medicine(4%). This leaves me thinking. I know I have always had some form of ADD. I am not "hyper" like the stereotypical person, but when I take those online quizes it always comes up positive for ADD. I figure it is because I can't play a video game alone for more than five minutes without getting bored. My short term memory fades very quickly. I am constantly moving my legs. I jump from task to task super quick, which explains why I have 15 browsers open right now. I never finish most tasks anyways, but I do finish important ones. I figure I was intelligent enough to cope with it growing up to get by. If the teacher didn't like my hurried handwriting I would type it. I figured out ways around studying by learning quickly. So even if I did have ADD I really wouldn't care because I am doing fine without anything.
I remember a movie I saw one time about this kid who took ritalin and became a completely different person. He got better grades but people hated the person he had become. He became arrogant and left his friends. Then when he quit taking it his life became normal. So the only reason I would even consider getting diagnosed would be if it helped me lose weight. That study doesn't make sense to me though. I figure if things are really stable you would be bored and would eat more. Maybe it would slow down my eating (I eat like 50MPH) and thus make me feel full faster. But it might also slow down my coding. That would be a negative as I go in spurts and can code off of inspiration. However it might increase my aptitude for going deeper into logic. I guess there are pros and cons of both states of mind.
Anyways, I figure I will talk with the old wife since as a teacher she diagnoses those kids. I wonder if those drugs lower blood pressure? I would think so since you have the new ability to sit still. Who knows. Eh, the only real reason is the weight loss thing. I have to remember what I said a week ago about losing weight and stick with that instead. That was pretty wise. What was it?? Something about motivating myself or something. Darn ADD...
I remember a movie I saw one time about this kid who took ritalin and became a completely different person. He got better grades but people hated the person he had become. He became arrogant and left his friends. Then when he quit taking it his life became normal. So the only reason I would even consider getting diagnosed would be if it helped me lose weight. That study doesn't make sense to me though. I figure if things are really stable you would be bored and would eat more. Maybe it would slow down my eating (I eat like 50MPH) and thus make me feel full faster. But it might also slow down my coding. That would be a negative as I go in spurts and can code off of inspiration. However it might increase my aptitude for going deeper into logic. I guess there are pros and cons of both states of mind.
Anyways, I figure I will talk with the old wife since as a teacher she diagnoses those kids. I wonder if those drugs lower blood pressure? I would think so since you have the new ability to sit still. Who knows. Eh, the only real reason is the weight loss thing. I have to remember what I said a week ago about losing weight and stick with that instead. That was pretty wise. What was it?? Something about motivating myself or something. Darn ADD...
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