Are people with ADHD retarded

Answer 1

No, people with Asperger's Syndrome are not retarded. They have average to high intelligence, but have difficulty understanding body language and other non-verbal cues.

(This is somebody else)

Aspies on average have above-average intelligence. It more-or-less is a mental condition where you think more intellectually and less socially. They may find things like small talk unimportant, or downright stupid. Aspies typically have difficulty doing things like maintaining eye contact, reading body language, understanding something in context, etc. A lot of the time they seem off in their own world simply because they are thinking about the bigger picture. They are often very eccentric, needing to eat certain foods or sleep in a certain position, although it oes from there to refusing to sleep in a hotel where the drain in the shower is in the center of it (one of Woody Allen's habits).

In a way, an Aspie is Socially retarded, but usually very mildly. In every other department, they have distinct advantages over the norm.

A few people I hope you have heard of with Aspergers:

World Leaders:

Adolf Hitler

Alexander the great (supposedly)

Al Gore

Sarah Palin

Peter The Great

Louis VI

Abraham Lincoln

As well as more than half of the people that signed the Constitution

Celebrities:

Dan Akroyd

Keanu Reeves

Marilyn Monroe

Elvis

Michael Jackson

James Orwell

Tim Burton

Gary Newman

(The actual) Lawrence of Arabia (not the actor who played him)

Craig Nicholls (had an extreme case)

Woody Allen

Robin Williams

Geniuses:

Einstein, he failed almost all of his math courses and was beleived by his parents to be "a retard"

Nikola Tesla

Rowan Hamilton, you may not have heard of him, he was a mathematician

Archimedes (Supposedly)

Socrates (Supposedly)

McKinnon (He hacked several NASA computers, as well as the U.S Army and U.S. Airforce)

Artists (writers for the most part):

Isaac Asimov

Charles Schulz

Warhol

Graham Bell

H.P. Lovecraft

Mozart

Michelangelo

Beethoven

Charles Darwin

Mark Twain

I'm sorry there are literally hundreds of other important people; as in practically everybody who ever did anything remotely important. The unfortunate thing is that people who put them down by assuming they're retarded or just freaks cause about half of them to be depressed, or insane. A massive number of Aspies kill themselves, usually because they don't fit in.

I am an Aspie, just so you know.

EDIT: I did not have the heart to delete the entire post although it is largely fallacious, biased and wrong. First; Only one or two persons in this list was diagnosed by a doctor or a psychologist, all of the historical figures lived in time where the knowledge of autism or aspgers did not exist; therefore it is no accord of their own or doctors of the time that they had AS. Dan Akryod joked about having aspergers and AL GORE, Sarah Palin and other famous person listed have never been diagnosed with Aspergers nor have mentioned it before; the writer seems to see Aspergers as a joke or has a below average IQ. Speaking of which; intelligence is not affected by the disability. Those with Aspergers can be dumb, intelligent or average, they fall within the normal range of intelligence. The speaker is obviously biased as he contends "aspies" are special and more intelligent and accomplished than "normal" people. If you want to learn about Aspergers go to a medical website.

http://www.webmd.com/brain/autism/tc/aspergers-syndrome-topic-overview

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aspergerssyndrome.html

Answer 2

Yes, unfortuneately some people are. This can happen for many different reasons; some it is with the development of the child in the womb; some times the brain does not fully develop so there is a problen. In other cases some people have a known medical condition which (again) affects the brain and the ability to thnk 'normally'.

Answer 3

Many (most?) are, in some way, dysfunctional in our society and unable to engage in 'everyday' activities. But there are also many who are absolutely brilliant at certain tasks and endeavors. To paint them all with the broad brush as being "retarded" is incorrect and an injustice.

Answer 4

Purely physically retarded people generally have average IQs.

Mentally retarded people vary differently depending on the type of retardation. For example those on the Autistic spectrum can display surprising intelligence in specific areas, but lack in other general intelligences.

Answer 5

Most definitely not. Many people with ADHD are very bright and creative, although somewhat disorganized at first. Good parenting alongside medical advice will allow them to full fill their potential.

Answer 6

Yes. Research on children with ADHD has shown a general reduction of brain volume and the medical field refers to it as a psychiatric disorder.

Answer 7

Most autistic children appear to be moderately mentally retarded.

Answer 8

They're not. They only find it difficult to concentrate directly on a certain thing.