Originally Posted by
Sanity2012 
Question - do most alcoholics have ADHD? Because my AH is the same way.
I think there is a tendency for people with ADHD, especially those who aren't formally diagnosed, to turn to alcohol/drugs to either self-medicate or deal with the hardships that come with living with undiagnosed ADHD. We (I'm speaking on behalf of everyone with ADHD) are way too often misread, misunderstood, and dismissed as something we are not, which leads to self-loathing...see where I'm going with this?
Even those who are diagnosed, treated, and medicated, still have to work on completing tasks and a whole laundry list of other "stuff" which varies according to the individual. I don't consider it "recovery" from ADHD, because there are plenty of positive traits that come from ADHD that just have to learn to be managed.
In short, any given active alcoholic out there who finds recovery, and is later found to have ADHD, is more common than not, IMHO.