This is why I was convinced up until the last few years that I didn’t have it. I’m certainly not fucking hyperactive, so how could I have ADHD? is what I used to think.
Think of the ‘hyperactivity’ as more related to your thoughts. In that everyone has a stream of thoughts going, ours is just overactive. And it’s only that some people do actually physically express the hyperactivity.
This is why I was convinced up until the last few years that I didn’t have it. I’m certainly not fucking hyperactive, so how could I have ADHD? is what I used to think.
A lot of people
used tostill think this.Think of the ‘hyperactivity’ as more related to your thoughts. In that everyone has a stream of thoughts going, ours is just overactive. And it’s only that some people do actually physically express the hyperactivity.
(Still not the most succinct word for it though)
I like to think of it as the “hyperactive” part being my brain.