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The Positives of ADD-ADHD |
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Page 1 of 2 151 positive characteristics of people with ADD (ADHD), 26 challenges that people with ADD face and 62 ways to deal with those challenges.
Participant Ideas from Pete Quily's Practical Success Tips for Adults with ADD Seminar. CHADD Vancouver, October 21, 2003
"ADD adults are definitely creative, and have a lot of positive characteristics. Please note the ratio of positive aspects to challenges. Here's the list of the ideas that everyone came up with at the meeting.
Positive Characteristics of People with Attention Deficit Disorder.
151 Positives
- Ability to find alternate paths to overcome obstacles
- Able to take on large situations
- Adaptive/collaborative
- Adventurous, courageous, lives outside of boundaries
- Always finding alternate routes to any given location.
- Always willing to help others
- Ambitious - you want to be everything when "you grow up"
- Artistic
- Attractive personality - magnetic due to high energy
- Being able to see the big picture
- Being able to see the patterns in the chaos.
- Being intuitive towards others' difficulties
- Broad focus - can see more, notice things more
- Can create order from chaos
- Can do many projects at once
- Can make people feel they are heard
- Can see the big picture
- Can talk about several things at one time
- Can think on my feet
- Career variety
- Centre of attention
- Comfortable talking in front of groups
- Comfortable with change and chaos
- Compassion for others and for themselves
- Conceptualizes well
- Confidence
- Constantly evolving
- Courageous
- Creates connections easily
- Creative
- Creative writing
- Creative - musical, artistic, "dramatic"
- Dedicated
- Detail-oriented
- Determined to gain more control
- Eager to make friends
- Eager to try new things
- Empathetic, sensitive
- Energetic
- Entrepreneurial
- Excellent organizers using journals and reminders (notes etc.)
- Flexible - changes as the situation requires
- Fun guy to be around
- Good in a crisis
- Good at customer relations
- Goal-oriented
- Good at conceptualizing
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- Good at motivating self and others
- Good at multitasking
- Good at problem solving
- Good at public speaking
- Good at understanding others/mind reading - empathetic
- Good conversationalist
- Good delegator and good at organizing others
- Good in emergency situations
- Good listener
- Good looking and aware of it
- Good people skills
- Good self esteem, energetic
- Great brain-stormer
- Great multitasked
- Great self-company
- Great sense of humour
- Great storyteller
- Great with kids (central figure around kids)
- Hands-on workers
- Hard worker
- Has friendly relations with their family
- Has the gift of gab
- Helpful
- Helps others who are also in trouble
- High energy - go, go, go
- Humour, very healthy, quick picking up ideas
- Hyper focus !!
- Hypersensitive - very empathetic and good at non-verbal communications
- Holistic thinking
- Idea generator
- Imaginative
- Impulsive (in a good way) not afraid to act
- Initiators
- Intelligent
- Intuitive
- It's ok to not finish everything
- Learning as much as I can to help children and others with adhd
- Less sleep is good (midnight to 6 am)
- Like to talk a lot
- Likes learning new things
- Look at multidimensional sides to a situation
- Lots of interests
- Loves to cook and be creative
- Magnetic
- Master idea generator
- Mentoring others/helpful
- Mentoring people with low self esteem
- Modesty
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- Move on fast - never hold a grudge >
- Multitasks well
- Never bored and rarely boring
- Never intimidated to try new things
- Non-linear, multi-dimensional/edge of chaos
- Not afraid to speak mind
- Not contained by boundaries.
- On stage and ready
- Optimistic
- Outgoing
- Passionate
- Persistent
- Philosophical
- Playful
- Pragmatic
- Problem solver
- Profound
- Quick thinking
- Quick witted
- Relates to people easily
- Resistant
- Resourceful
- Saves money in the short term by forgetting to file tax returns
- See and remember details - recount them later
- Sees the big picture
- Socially adaptive and flexible.
- Spontaneous
- Stabilizer during difficult situations
- Stable
- Successful
- Takes initiative
- Tenacious
- Theoretical
- Think outside the box
- Thinks 2 meters ahead of the world
- Thinks big, dreams big
- Thorough
- Tolerant
- Unconventional
- Unlimited energy
- Unorthodox
- Versatile
- Very creative, able to generate a lot of ideas
- Very hard working to compensate - workaholic
- Very intuitive
- Very resourceful
- Very successful
- Visionary
- Visual learner
- Willing to explore
- Willing to take risks
- Willingness to help others
- Witty
- Won't tolerate boredom
- Works well under pressure
- Worldly
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Last Updated( Apr 16, 2009 )
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reviewed by: Harry Croft, MD
Psychiatrist, HealthyPlace.com Medical Director
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