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ADD vs. ADHD: What's the Difference in Symptoms?

What is ADD vs. ADHD, exactly? Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder comprises three distinct subtypes — inattentive (traditionally called ADD), hyperactive-impulse (traditionally called ADHD), and combined. Symptoms vary significantly for each type — from bouncing-of-the-walls energy to quiet spaciness and profound disorganization.

4 Comments: ADD vs. ADHD: What's the Difference in Symptoms?

  2. I seriously and everyone has told me this including all my friends that I am currently living with ADD. It is hard to focus when I am doing school work if I don’t take my medicine. I thought I have ADHD but I don’t I actually have ADD.

  3. Honestly, given all the helpful information I’ve learned on this website helping me to connect many of my struggles to ADHD (and not laziness), I am very surprised that only 9 symptoms are listed and you have to meet 6??? There are so many more than that, and a person might be totally misdiagnosed if they have learned to cope with any of them!! I was always missed because I never struggled in school. School was always easy for me so I was told I couldn’t have ADD. However, my life is an organizational mess now that I’m out of school. I can’t seem to categorize or prioritize things or even get anything done in a day off, and I’m easily overwhelmed by information and am always late.
    Does anyone know why so few symptoms are listed in the DSM?

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