Ashraf Barhom Quotes

I had a ton of energy, ran around like crazy - more than a handful for my dad. I was crazy. Dad barely handled it. I was never diagnosed ADHD or anything like that, but I'm pretty sure I had it when I was younger. It's the only thing that would explain me getting into trouble all the time.

I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn't know what to do with me.

I was a classic attention deficit disorder kid, always bored and mouthing off at school.

I was a pretty disruptive student in class in school. I had a hard time paying attention. I had what they call A.D.D. now, back then I was just a hyper kid.

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD because I was making sounds. I was far from being an ADD child. I was actually quite quiet and well-behaved. But I used to drum on things.

As a kid, I was hyperactive and the naughty one in school. I wouldn't listen to anyone and thought I knew best. At home, I was always breaking things and annoying everyone.

That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.

I'm so ADD.

I have extreme ADD.

I was definitely a handful back then. I could not sit down long enough to study.

I used to drum on the table at school. I think a handful of my school reports say that they thought I might have some kind of ADD.

For bipolar in adults, I think there's pretty good agreement about what this looks like. For bipolar in children, there is some considerable debate about where are the boundaries. At the mild end, are these just kids who are active? Is this the class clown at the very severe - is this something other than a mood disorder?

I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it's entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you're a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.

I was way too hyperactive to study for long. I would freak out, then crash, then be too tired to read or write. I really should have had less sugar.

I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.

I think I have advanced ADD.

I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.

Kids who don't play are not just at greater risk of falling behind academically, but also of becoming overweight or obese, failing to integrate socially, and even engaging in criminal activity.