Mark & Peg, your words on being labeled an underachieve and disruptive kid mirror my own experience. My parents were constantly told by my teachers that I wasn't applying myself. Luckily, my parents could see how hard I tried to do things I wasn't interested in and how painful it was for me, and they stuck up for me - to the point where I was unaware what my teachers had told them and can't really remember feeling bad about myself. (Except when I got into trouble for doing my own thing when class got boring.)

Rick, I think there must be degrees of this. Also, some folks learned to cope better than others. I'm thinking the label 'disorder' may just not be right. It seems more like a type of personality. If you find a niche in the world where your personality is compatable, or even helps your life, there's no problem. If you go the square-peg-in-round-hole route, you're life's gonna be miserable.

I think I have most of the symptoms. Maybe the biggest one is that I'm still wondering what I want to be when I grow up.