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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9622753" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah it's interesting, I have severe (primarily inattentive, but also some impulsive) ADHD (not diagnosed until I was 20), and when I did proper reflex tests as a kid, I did really confoundingly, astonishingly badly. Like, bottom 25% of my class, and I was really trying! It really vexed me for years because I couldn't explain why I scored so badly on those tests, yet was very obviously better than other people who scored vastly better at anything people believed required "fast reflexes" or "good reflexes" - clay pigeon/skeet shooting, football, fencing, videogames (esp. fighting games and shooters) (pls feel free to sneer at how bourgeois this list is! I know I do!).I got a dyslexia diagnosis as a kid but in my case it was definitely wrong, they just didn't know how to diagnose ADHD properly in the UK in the 1980s. I got an unwilling dyspraxia diagnosis in my 20s, but I also consider that to be wrong, because whilst I'm somewhat clumsy on a macro scale (i.e. trip over things, bump into things, etc.), I think that's really inattentive ADHD manifesting (and notably my clumsiness decreases steeply with ADHD medication). Also I'm really good at drawing, super-fast at typing, pretty precise with mouse/controller, etc., which I think is basically entirely precludes actual dyspraxia in my case. If I did have both that and ADHD though I could see how that would be a hell of a problem!</blockquote>

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