The ADD Communitycenter.com ADD spoken here

This new look to the ADD Community Center is just another new beginning. This site has a renewed look, enthusiasm and features. Maybe this time it can embody our philosophy about Attention Deficit Disorder. One that tries to maximize the good and minimize the negative. Sounds a lot better than managing symptoms in ADD.
As a newly minted empty nester I've found that even though the children have left...well..much of their stuff hasn't. AND sad to say all my excuses to not do whatever I don't do have escaped as well.

I think that the stuff published on ADHD is a little too clinical. By this I mean that professionals are trained to identify the symptoms and treat the negatives. They do not know and can not know ADHD like an ADHDer does. This does not mean that we know about our condition better than a professional, but we understand what it FEELS like, not what it LOOKS like. We don't know what medication to administer or who to refer a patient to but I think it is time that people from this website try to explain as best they can what it is like to have ADHD. I encourage others to write an article on this site like mine because those who do not have ADHD and are indirectly affected by the condition should not only know the clinical stuff, but also the stuff that we as ADHDers just KNOW.

To start off with, to all non-ADHDers who are reading this: You must understand that you can NOT entirely comprehend what it FEELS like to have ADHD just by reading the clinical stuff or even reading this article. The only way you can build up a clear picture is by researching multiple works. ADHD is a very controversial subject. There will be clashing statements. Some may be just wrong and some may be right in only certain circumstances where some are generally accepted to be true. I hope that by spending some time here and getting to know the ADHD community at this wonderful website you will be able to decide for yourself what is true and what applies to the ADHDers you know.