I dislike how people have to try and put other people into little boxes which safely define their behaviour and label it.
As someone mentioned above, when you pin such a label to yourself you will very quickly become the poster child for that 'disorder'.
You adopt it as an identity. You stop being James and become James the ADD sufferer. Soon everything in your life will revolve around it, as it does with my younger brother.
He uses it as an excuse for anything that he does, or doesn't do. The worst part is that he believes it and uses it as a reason not to do anything. e.g. "I shouldn't bother applying for jobs, I won't be able to keep them because I have ADD" ,"Oh I could never do that I have ADD"
Why can't Steve just be someone who doesn't mince words and tells it like it is? Why does he have to have a 'syndrome' to explain why he doesn't behave exactly the same as you?
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