Many people with ADHD (Inattentive subtype and hyperactive subtype) find their brains work faster than people who don't have ADHD.
Executive functions have other roles which affect how someone thinks. In people with ADHD, these executive dysfunctions impact thinking in numerous ways. People with ADHD don't really think faster than people without it, but it can sometimes seem like they do.
The Adult ADHD Brain and Thinking/Acting “Too Fast”
It appears the connections between the various areas of the brain necessary to control response inhibition and foster attention are underdeveloped in the ADHD brain. Because of this you may tend to act and/or think too fast.
Shankman: Simply put, ADHD is the brain's inability to produce as much dopamine, serotonin, and adrenaline as “regular” people's brains produce. Because of that, our brains have become “faster.” When managed right, that becomes a superpower. Have you found that you tend to think faster than most people? Yes.
A popular misconception is that all children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are naturally smarter and have a higher IQ than children without ADHD. However, there is no correlation between this condition and intelligence.
Similar to the hyperactive symptoms, impulsive symptoms are typically seen by the time a child is four years old and increase during the next three to four years to peak in severity when the child is seven to eight years of age.
Here is a truth that people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD) know from an early age: If you have an ADHD nervous system, you might as well have been born on a different planet. Most adults with ADHD have always known that they think differently.
Researchers are learning more and more about brain development and ADHD. Differences in the brain make it harder for people with ADHD to work on a task unless they're really interested in it. It's not a matter of being lazy or not being smart.
The inner clock of people with ADHD seems to run faster than in normal individuals, and this can be useful in diagnostics and can be integrated into treatment. Furthermore, tasks that for individuals without ADHD are perceived as repetitive or uninteresting are perceived as dragging on much longer for those with ADHD.
Their work is often slow and error prone. Their brain activity shows patterns of under arousal in the portion of the brain associated with focus and planning. In addition, children with ADHD typically exhibit poor executive functions, brain-based behaviors that contribute to effective functioning.
The Gift of ADHD: They say that adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have almost a sixth sense about people. My sharp sense of intuition is the one personal attribute that I've always been proud of. Since I was little I've been able to smell a two-faced person from a mile away.
There's no direct relationship between ADHD and talking too fast. However, it's possible that because of some of our symptoms, we might resort to speedy speech. Case in point: since forgetfulness is a common trait of people with ADHD, we might talk too much so as not to forget the ideas in our head.
Studies have also discovered that in people with ADHD, there is an unusually high level of functional connectivity between the brain regions that form part of a mechanism called the “selective visual attention system.” This system allows us to determine what's important to notice or pay attention to in the moment.
A: ADHD brains need more sleep, but find it doubly difficult to achieve restfulness. It is one of those ADHD double whammies: ADHD makes it harder to get enough sleep, and being sleep deprived makes it harder to manage your ADHD (or anything else).
At Work or School
Research has found that people with ADHD have more creativity and idea generation than people without the disorder. 3 This can lead to outside-the-box thinking that is so important for innovation. Hyper-focus: Many people with ADHD become hyper-focused on things that interest them.
No matter what age, gender, or race you are, ADHD feels different for everyone. For a person with ADHD, it can be a constant struggle to organize everything: from the thoughts inside my head or the never-ending list of tasks to do to sorting my stuff, often leading to trouble locating misplaced things.
Holly White, a professor at Emory University who specializes in ADHD studies: "People with ADHD often have an advantage in tasks that require thinking outside of the box or looking at things in new ways." Simply said, it means that our creative performance isn't limited to cognitive thinking as is the case with ...
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With ADHD, a child or teen may have rapid or impulsive speech, physical restlessness, trouble focusing, irritability, and, sometimes, defiant or oppositional behavior.
Misdiagnosis is not uncommon when high IQ and ADHD collide. Very bright children who are also highly active are sometimes misdiagnosed with ADHD. On the other hand, some highly intelligent children with ADHD can focus on things that interest them for an extended period of time, which can lead to misdiagnosis as well.
Leonardo da Vinci
His scientific and engineering inventions were equally influential and ahead of his time. According to research, Leonardo da Vinci was reported to have had many symptoms of ADHD.
ADHD AND GIFTEDNESS are sometimes described as having the same or similar characteristics. However, one diagnosis is considered a disability and one, a gift. Neither assumption is ideal in supporting the child identified with either ADHD, giftedness, or both, often referred to as twice exceptional or 2e.