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  • That’s just it - everything in ADHD occurs in neurotypical land. Just with ADHD it’s disruptive to your life on a regular/near-constant basis.

    If you have multiple of these behaviours that occur frequently/are regularly disruptive, that’s a good sign you may have a form of ADHD.

    Being disruptive of your life is a significant part of the diagnosis.

    The moving leg thing is a symptom of H in ADHD: hyperactive. Can’t sit still. I have a friend in his 60’s who does this, and has since he was a kid. He stumbles over his words, and always has. Total hyperactive type, though he’s never been diagnosed.



  • ADHD is a problem with executive function - controlling focus.

    So some folks with ADHD swing from not being able to focus on one thing at all to only focus on one thing to the exclusion of all else.

    When we were about 12, a friend of mine would get so into reading a book he wouldn’t hear his parents calling his name. It happened so much they took him for hearing tests.

    That’s how strong hyperfocus can be. (He was later diagnosed with the Inattentive type of ADHD).