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ADD and ADHD

alright, i keep seeing posts where people refer to ADD and ADHD as two separate disorders. 

both terms refer to the same disorder. 

ADD just means attention deficient disorder and ADHD means attention deficient hyperactivity disorder. ADD is an outdated term so you are more likely to hear ADHD in the psychology field.

keep in mind that just bc ADD is an outdated term doesn’t mean it still isn’t used. 

i see a lot of people base their argument on these being separate disorders on the fact that they were diagnosed with ADHD and their sibling was diagnosed with ADD. that just means that you saw different doctors or your doctor switched the term they were using. but they are still the same thing.

i also see people say that ADD and ADHD are similar but are different because ADHD includes hyperactivity and ADD doesn’t. the hyperactivity was added to the term ADD in order to make the term more accurate. that doesn’t mean that they are two separate disorders.

yes, there are different types of ADHD. just like there are different types of depression and anxiety. but just like depression refers to the same condition (ie, seasonal depression, clinical depression, etc.) ADHD is still ADD. 

for example, most girls are diagnosed with the attention deficient type of ADHD but are often not diagnosed because it manifests as being “spacey.” which is a stereotypical girl trait. most boys are diagnosed with the hyperactive type of ADHD because that is the “can’t sit still and fidgety” symptoms. which is what most people think of when they hear ADHD. but in the end, they are both are still ADHD.

i would like to point out that many people don’t like either term because it can very misleading. the terms only focuses on two symptoms that many people with ADD/ADHD don’t have. there are many more symptoms to ADHD than being fidgety or spacey.  

so if you get diagnosed with ADD you have ADHD and if you get diagnosed with ADHD you have ADD.