ADD ADHD online test: what is the use? You are a human in 1st place!

ADD ADHD online test: what is the use? Learn here to see yourself as human first.

- you are a human and not a ADD- or ADHD-person.

This is very essential. In the beginning of the diagnosis-process, the scoop is on the characteristics of ADD/ADHD. Often is prior in such process one ADD ADHD online test made. The use of such test is very questionable.

Medical view

However, in core is it a medical, even pathological qualification. It is written in the DSM-IV, from that point of view the physicians are right. They suggest the ‘normal’ treatment: medication, therapy, coaching and psycho-education.

All this can be very helpful, I will not say you mustn’t do this. I did go through this process myself, it is because of this that I can have a balanced opinion.

Part of the map.

I learned in this process that this strategy is just a part of the whole map. The bird-view is, that the medical approach is based on a medical model. This doesn’t mean that the psychiatrics or physicians are not good. It only means that they are professionals in their medical field.

The point I want to make is that – if you see yourself not as ADHD-human, but a human with a special ‘packet’ of traits, this gives another view.

At least this happens to me and a lot of my clients. When you make up the balance then: which qualities and characteristics do I have as a human. Both good and less good. Which qualities can I even improve and on which do I have to work?

Normal questions to everyone.

These are very normal questions for every human being, in the medical circuit or not, with or without medication.

Another free insight: if you do research among your acquaintances and compare your so-called ‘ADHD’-traits. Then you will see that very much people have trouble with clutter, for example. Or that more people are quicker with their mouth than with their thoughts, without being labelled as having a ‘disorder’.

"Dis"order?

A deeper thought: ‘disorder’ what does that word mean in fact? “Out of order”, after all? But doesn’t that says as much about the ‘order’ than the person?

I refer here to Thom Hartmann again, who speaks about ‘Hunters in a farmer’s world'.

Hartmann writes in his book “A complete Guide to ADHD” that the school system is made for “farmers”. Children, people who can sit still and focus a whole day in the given direction. The ultimate test is applied in one (or more) examinations. This system is aimed at the testing of the examination skills, nothing else. The child or adult who is not able to sit still for hours to make the proof, fails. Isn’t that ironic?

Human and creativity.

This system is aimed on docility, not active creativity. The active creativity is what makes the unique human feature, not the obedience. That is for the higher animals.

The common thought is, that we need one or more diploma’s to succeed in life. These are the hard proofs of qualification in our contemporary society. The whole system of education is focussed on this principal.

Special human type.

If we see ourselves as human in the first place, with a special ‘packet of traits’, it helps.

We can make a start to look on the good qualities – which we can use and improve – and the less good, we can overcome and improve.

When we look from the bird-view, we see also a lot of good characteristics we have. Don’t forget to ask the people who love and appreciate you! The best is even to look in yourself. Take time for that, in boring situations, for example. It’s a nice exercise! Under the button Advantages I listed more than twenty positive traits, you can look here, save and/or print these to help yourself.

Selfhelp and others.

You can help yourself – and others- when you share your specific good quality, that is not listed. Click on the button Contact and tell us! It will surely be listed!

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