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Comment by luckydata | Hacker News Reader

ADD is just old terminology. You have ADHD, and you should read up on some updated science cause you got some very weird, very wrong ideas about your own condition.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33549739/

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   [...] 15 The clinical presentation of ADHD can be described as primarily inattentive, primarily hyperactive-impulsive, or combined,
    depending on the nature of their symptoms (American Psychiat-ric Association, 2013). [...]

I assume ADD is nowadays just a shorthand for the primarily inattentive presentation.

I find this distinction to be confusing and not particularly useful. Brace for armchair science!: Although it may present as primarily inattentive, the hyperactive stuff can sneak through subtly. I think it becomes un-learned a lot of the time by adulthood such that the DSM criteria don't _seem_ to apply as strongly but it can very much still be there. At least for me, I think I have 'learned' to be more 'chill', but I still can't help myself from interrupting people a lot of the time.

I use it that way too cause my non-native english tongue struggles to pronounce the H but saying "I don't have ADHD, I have ADD" is really specifically and factually wrong.

You told someone with AD(H)D to read that document to get a better idea about attention deficit disorder? You cannot be serious.

I also have ADHD, I can read it fine. Would a better presentation help? For sure. But we're not stupid or incapable of performing simple tasks.

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