Why do people make adhd sound so bad and make the kids who have it sound and look stupid?

So I have adhd and I take adderall now iam a all a and b students and next year i will be in the tenth grade taking all advanced classes except for math. so are you Adhd or add? do you take it to affence how people talk about it? also I think depresion is another symptom for adhd i know I cry all the time over stupid things and will get worked up easily mainly because of geneticsand my adderal helped fix that so I could focus on my shcool work easilyer and handel the stress eaiyer. ps this i more of a topic starter than a question

My little brother has ADHD ahd he s so very smart. I am dealing with a kid right now with ADHD at my house spending the night with my daughter. Well, this is what I think. I think the parents are in so much denial that there is something wrong they try to let the kid do whatever to seem normal in which enables the child to probably act out more beccause once they are around a structured family environment they can't cope and feel out of place. You can't help that you are you keep being smart and don't let people's lackof knowledge be the reason for you not to make great steps forward inlife. Like I said it starts at home and how hard the parents try to work with the disorder and child.

I have adhd, and people do talk about is like that some one who has it would be unable to think. I find it very offensive since they do not have it and they say terrible things about it when they do not know anything about it. But I go to a private school that is for people with add/adhd, dyslexia, asbergers, and other things. But don't take what they say personaly they don't know and you do thats all that counts.

I have ADD. I can't stand it when people say that the disorder isn't a real issue and can be defeated by willpower. These people don't understand how the human brain works. I suffered through all of school because I my ADD -LITERALLY DISABLED ME- from absorbing large blocks of text that didn't interest or concern me. I wasn't officially diagnosed with it until I was 17, so I wasn't able to take any medication for it before. I would read a chapter of a book word for word, over and over, but I wouldn't know what it said. I knew what the words meant, I could comprehend individual sentences, but my brain was disabled from stringing together the basis of the chapter. I would try SO hard and focus SO hard, even taking notes along the way in order to get the gist of it, but I would only pick up on a few irrelevant details. I needed to use Sparknotes for reading novels in english class, otherwise I would have failed. There are only two novels I recall being interested in enough to be able to read on my own and understand. Even if my mind didn't wander while I was reading something, the material did not click in my mind and there was not a thing in my power that I was able to do about it, no matter how much effort I put into it. As someone would typically suggest, I DID pull myself together, I did invest all of my energy and determination, and I used every resource I could just to comprehend books that didn't catch my interest. All of my efforts were blocked by ADD. People who would try to argue my experence are nothing but armchair psychologists who base their judgment on assumption instead of reality. If ADD could be defeated by willpower, it would not be classified as a mental disorder.

Actually if your looking to start a topic, this was a question I asked earlier today. Maybe after you read it we could talk a little more. Up to you. Sorry, its a bit long but here was what I posted earlier today.

I was diagnosed with ADD as a young child. Since then i've had all kinds of learning disability problems, junior high and high school were what I would call walking comas. I just felt out of it, oblivious, zoned out, trailed off, whatever you want to call it. Pressures of life (college, work, women, ect) kinda brought me up to a whole new level of depression though. I was overwhelmed already, now I gotta deal with this **** too? I started drinking, feeling overwhelmed my everything, I stay up til late at night. I was going to see a therapist but he seems to have hit a dead end with me cause now i'm in some kind of out patient program at the hospital. Before I get into that, I just want to say a couple things here.

I'm horrible socially. My friends (who are very accepting) even tell me that not many people would be willing to put up with the things I do and on the few dates i've been on with girls, that's pretty much been the case. I've never had sex, never felt like I could even be coherent enough for it.

I'm losing the ability to drive. I've actually zoned out for about 3-4 minutes while driving only to "awake" to realize i'm going in the wrong direction. My perception is very bad as well. My friends say i'm even a reckless driver, but I don't even notice it.

I've never been able to keep a job. I either get fired or I quit because of feeling overwhelmed in the first couple months of it.

I try to read but it usually takes me forever to get the thing done because I can't process the words on the page.

I'll stay up til about 3 in the morning and when I drink I usually don't ever think of the consequences or care really. That's the part that really seemed to shock the psychiatrist I saw. I don't seem to care that much.

Any change in my life leads to a horrible outburst from me.

One of the big changes this week was a switch from one on one meetings with a psychologist to group meetings at the hospital. And here is the real kicker. I met with the psychiatrist there for about 10 minutes and he says the stuff I go through doesn't even sound like ADD. Wha? I've been going crazy with this for days. What causes my inconsistency then. It's like i'm either on auto-pilot or i'm completely out of it. Does this sound like ADD to anyone else? Why aren't they giving me any sort of physical or medicinal support? Could it be a brain injury instead of ADD? (And if it is, do I really even want to know? Sorry, this one is rhetorical)