What are the symptoms of ADD?

Well technailly the only thing that makes you have A.D.D is that you can NEVER concentrate on one thing! for example say if i was working on a quiz then i saw small pieces of dust,i would look at the dust and forget about what im working on. idk if theres medicine for it so umm yeh! but i think you can get help! hoped that helped! ~missarchie p.s...i think i hav A.D.D too!!!

It doesn't like ADD it sounds more like normal problems. Usually a problem like that is identified at a very young age when everything else is equal. If you really are having issues talk to someone about it at your school you don't need your mom to bring you anywhere to get tested if its a public school then all the resources are already there. However, teachers are also trained to look out for issues and they would have already recommended you. School just may be a little harder for you than most stop looking for excuses and keep hitting the books. Edit: F* all of you that said this is made up disease. I strugled with this all my life and am now early in my twenties free from medication as I and many specialist have taught me to live with out it. There are two types; ADD where you get stuck concentrating on one thing whether its your work or not your work you can't really choose. ADHD is where its like your brain is channel surfing at a very high speed and you can't keep it on one channel long of enough to get a thought together a paper done etc. Every little distraction every little sound instead of being in the background is right infront of you. They are fluctuations of being able to handle it not be able to be handle the stress jitterness causes social problems with family and friends and hyper activity causes even more problems getting stuff done or participating in normal social situations as well as lasting problems with anxiety. If you are old enough to be using a computer and no one has noticed a significant problem you don't have it and to people who said it doesn't exist just because you don't have it or some else has made it up because they can't finish a homework assignment doesn't mean that it is not a real for other people its called munchousen diease (when you make up a sickness to get some kind of benefit). Some poeple take viagra as party drug or abuse it to have more sex that doesn't mean that ED doesn't really exist does it? A**holes I am so sick of hearing that. You are why the people who need help in all areas of mental health don't often get the help they need. And Audrey and the other person the reason why people aren't as forward with the answers is because people like you who clearly don't have a problem go to your teachers and doctors with our answers whether they are correct or not get the quick fix you think you need and create the sterotype i am fighting against with the rest of these A**holes.

ADD dosent exsist it is a made up "disorder" so that parents with overactive or rowdy children have a way to control them, instead of altering their parenting methods they can blame a "disorder" and medicate their children, i mean the symptom list for ADD is so vague it makes pharmaceutical companies cream themselves just thinking about it, there is one ADD medication site that actually states that "the exact mechanism through which this medication works is not known" WTF? so sorry to burst your bubble

that's normal in a lot of people....ADD or ADHD is a made up illness to create revenue for drug companies and doctors not kidding

I literally just asked a question like this.... Hmm... well I can describe one symptom that I *THINK* is ADD... it was in my question if you want to read it. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AvgJmF2rhhztJ3b8n7sQBQbsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090520140452AAHDonU

well a.d.d stand for attention deficit disorder but its know as a.d.h.d attention deficit hyper disorder sighs are ea sly distracted, hyper, has very very random thoughts, and not able to sit still i have a question if you crunch a water bottle do you get irritated? if so you have a good chance of a.d.h.d