Does it run in your family?

[Brocksmom]

Can any of you trace adhd(or any other disorder associated w/it) to anyone in your family? My husband is pretty sure he had adhd( & still does a little-- at work his desk is one big post -it note). I guess his dad was quite the "active" child. Brock also had a cousin w/adhd.
Also looking back in school I can pick out kids that were definitley adhd, but it didn't really have a name yet. So to us they were just really "retarded" (I know that's not the nicest word, but that's what we used, ~~so I hope I don't offend anybody )because of the way they acted.

[vickilyn32]

My father is defidently ADHD, but undiagnosed, my teachers said I was always a dreamy child, My BIL I am sure has ADHD. Non of us were diagnosed, but we fit the description. I also think that DH has ADHD as well.

[Dad2Brooke]

My wife has ADHD, as well as her father. Also, there is ADHD on her mother's side as well.

No one on my side of the family has ADHD, although sometimes I wonder, I maybe I had it, but it was mild and never diagnosed. I see a lot of me at that age in Brooke.

[finnmom]

Hi
my brother has never been diagnosed, but I remember that he was quite the same as ds. He went under the label of "difficult/problem"-child. But has now succeed in life nicely!

sometime´s I wonder; I´am a dreamer, dh has really short fuse(sp?), we both get really focused to something at the time...... You never know!

Marja

[shardstar]

My whole family is ADHD! My husband, me, and my daughter...My dad and brother most definitely are ADHD but undiagnosed. My husband's sister is and I'm pretty sure his Dad is, but also undiagnosed.

[Brocksmom]

Wow Shardstar . How difficult is that? I can't imagine. It's tough enough for me w/ just one!

[shardstar]

Sometimes its fine...Sometimes I just want to curl up in a ball and hide. I try to keep a sense of humor about the whole thing. It's the best way to keep from getting down. ;D

[laughterandtears]

My Dad dropped out of high-school (too boring), took his GED, became a lab tech and did real estate during the day. He cooks, paints, flies RC gliders, bakes, teaches kids and teachers how to make masks, scube dives, is a pilot, and at nearly 70, does not know what he wants to do when he grows up.

One of my older brothers dropped out of high-school, took his GED, became an environmental biologist, left that professional to become an artist....

I dropped out of college, rapidlly built a career in project management and technology, built a small business, sold it to become an equity partner in a client's business, walked away because I was bored and wanted to write, sold several articles on professional development, wrote a career book, created a seminar on technology professional development, and wrote articles, songs, poems, in the meantime.

I don't know WHAT is running in our family but my son Christopher (www.cbtoolkit.com/moranclan/Christopher.htm was diagnosed at three with ADHD. His current developmental pediatrician said, "Wow, he's off the charts!"

Recently, we were waiting to meet with the principal at his school - no, he's wasn't in trouble, my wife is applying to work as a 1 on 1 for an autistic boy - and I grabbed the school microphone. Since school was out, I asked the office lady if I could say something...

Just then the principal walked out of her office and said, "Mr. Moran, you've heard about where apples fall."

Not far from the tree I suppose... Darn! Caught again.

[rosyred45]

OH Matthew, that is too funny.

Well, I thought I had typed in here earlier, but I guess not, just like my kids thought they had all of htier homework done, guess not

MR MORAN, Where do the apples fall?
hehehe

YUP, OUR whole family. I always saw it as a boything, until I really started looking into traits characteristics andf realized that the picture wasn't being painted for just Mikey any more.

The house can get a little out of order, so I guess I'll be spending time cleaning it today(um, yeah)

We have a blast and love each other, even though we have to slow down and enjoy things once in a while
Kaiti

[Linda]

I hear ya Kaiti...I think my cats are ADHD too

[rosyred45]

I know my fish are, why else would they keep running into the glass

I think even the squirrels in the yard are.

Kaiti

[LitlBaa]

Hurricane Kate is a younger female version of her father (who I divorced about 8 years ago, undx'd ADD). Current Hubby was recently dx'd ADD, has one son undx'd ADD I think, one son not. Also have ADHD dog, a Jack Russell Terrier (think Wishbone on speed).

[songwriter]

My mother had ADHD- (very creative artist, but an obsessive cumpulsive collector of EVERYTHING)She passed away about a year ago , and I didn't realize what our 'problem' was till after she died. Anyway I have it and my son (13) has it. -songwriter

[Proverbs31mom]

I am new to this group. But I thought that I'd start here with my first post.
Yes ADHD does run in my family and my DH has it also. We are not too sure about were it may stem from in his family, no one is diagnosed. But I do see some symptoms in some family members.
My side of the family though, is another matter! It is in both my Mom & Dad's families, both diagnosed and undiagnosed. Many cousins, Grandfather, uncles, and niece on my Dad's side of the family. I think that there is a string of undiagnosed ODD coming through my paternal Great-grandfather and on down. My Mom has it and I think one of her maternal aunts probably did also. Not sure who else in her side of the family.

As for our immed. family all 4 of us, DH & I plus DS1 and DS2 have been diagnosed. The boys and I take meds. DH has tried them, but does not feel like they help much.

Anyone else out there with the whole immed. family or most of you ADHD? I'd really like to talk to you! How do you keep it all together?

Our theme song, which we stole from Sister Sledge, is "We Are Family". Only we sing: "We are ADD, all of my family and me!"

Hope to get to know you all.

[JulieinSC]

Although they are undiagnosed, I'm pretty sure that ADHD-inattentiveness runs in my husband's family. We've been calling my FIL the "absent minded professor" forever, and my husband is just like HIS father, as is our youngest son!