This can cause a lot of problems in the lives of the undiagnosed people it certainly did in mine before I was diagnosed.Īs you can come to believe these labels, this can bring a lot of problems with it like depression, low self-esteem, low self-worth, and anxiety.

I only got my diagnosis when I was 18 and only found out because I had it as a subject in class during my education for becoming a social worker.īecause people write off symptoms of ADD as lazy, stupid, a daydreamer or forgetful. Therefore ADD goes a lot more undiagnosed then ADHD. They are not hyperactive or impulsive, the problem with this is that when people hear ADHD, they usually have a stereotypical image in their mind of someone who cannot stay still, talks a lot, is impulsive and interrupts people mid-sentence. That can not stay focused in class and looks out the window a lot. Nowadays ADD is used unofficially to describe ADHD inattentive type: usually, a picture of a daydreamer comes up. Then in 1987 they changed it to ADHD, but then did not differentiate between subtypes:Īnd then finally in 2000, they came up with the 3 subtypes: That is what I want to talk about in this video as there is quite some confusion on this topic.įor years if it came up or people asked, I said I have ADD, and to explain it to them quickly I said it is like ADHD( which they usually know) but without the H/Hyperactivity.īut In truth, there is no ADD as ADD is an outdated term from 1980 that used to be the official name for ADHD and there they had 2 subtypes: ADD with hyperactivity and ADD without hyperactivity. Is it the same or is it different from each other?

Add vs adhd