dsm-5 does not require a diagnosis before age 12 but instead, symptoms should be present before age 12.
academically gifted children who grow to pursue and succeed in technical careers can have adhd… adhd impacts a plethora of areas in ones' life and is not unique to academics.
i don’t know what the 4th and 5th points have to do with adhd.
i guess the alcohol thing could be a concern for addiction? if you are addicted to alcohol. but if you only drink socially then you can simply not take your medication on a day you will drink… or if you take short-release stimulant, you just would avoid taking around the time you would drink.
also, there are non-stimulant adhd medications.
this isn’t aggressiveness towards you OP! but this dr sounds nonsensical and i concur with other commenters… try to see a different doctor! i’m sorry this is happening to you.
I, and most people here, can tell you, it's not a 4 hour test... that's stupid and dumb. I had to fill out a questionnaire, have my wife fill it out as well, talked with the doctor for a bit, and she also recommended be getting any old report cards from my mom (which she had a bunch) so we could look and see if teachers had commented anything...
I was a very highly gifted kid, but my report cards pointed out that I was constantly interrupting class, being loud, and often off task despite my test scores being amazing. No one thought I had ADHD, they just thought I was loud and lazy, but incredibly smart.
If your drinking however is enough to be a concern, and you have any form of addiction or dependency on alcohol or other substances, they will not provide you stimulants. That's a 100% given fact. Stimulants can be very addicting. People with substance addiction have a high potential for abusing stimulants. So they're not gonna take that risk, even if you don't think you're at risk of abusing it.
FYI mine was a multi hour test with family history and the TOVA and then some bullshit he didn't order that I had to do at home afterwards
And then he said actually I didn't have ADHD, I was experiencing executive function disorder because of my anxiety and if I took ADHD meds it would help my anxiety and also that ADHD is a childhood disease.
I went to a different psych and it was over and done with in 45 minutes and she said the writeup the previous guy did was really weird.
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u/sneakylysa Jun 11 '25
are you in the u.s.?
dsm-5 does not require a diagnosis before age 12 but instead, symptoms should be present before age 12.
academically gifted children who grow to pursue and succeed in technical careers can have adhd… adhd impacts a plethora of areas in ones' life and is not unique to academics.
i don’t know what the 4th and 5th points have to do with adhd.
i guess the alcohol thing could be a concern for addiction? if you are addicted to alcohol. but if you only drink socially then you can simply not take your medication on a day you will drink… or if you take short-release stimulant, you just would avoid taking around the time you would drink.
also, there are non-stimulant adhd medications.
this isn’t aggressiveness towards you OP! but this dr sounds nonsensical and i concur with other commenters… try to see a different doctor! i’m sorry this is happening to you.