anyone have adhd?
seems to me the "symptoms" are the same as they would be for a lazy or spoiled child.
are they drugging kids because of crappy parents? i think so.
your child need only exhibit 6 of these to get put on drugs.
- Often fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork, at work, or with other activities.
- Often has trouble holding attention on tasks or play activities.
- Often does not seem to listen when spoken to directly.
- Often does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace (e.g., loses focus, side-tracked).
- Often has trouble organizing tasks and activities.
- Often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to do tasks that require mental effort over a long period of time (such as schoolwork or homework).
- Often loses things necessary for tasks and activities (e.g. school materials, pencils, books, tools, wallets, keys, paperwork, eyeglasses, mobile telephones).
- Is often easily distracted.
- Is often forgetful in daily activities.
ABSTRACT
Objective
To provide updated national prevalence estimates of diagnosed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), ADHD severity, co-occurring disorders, and receipt of ADHD medication and behavioral treatment among U.S. children and adolescents by demographic and clinical subgroups using data from the 2022 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH).
Method
This study used 2022 NSCH data to estimate the prevalence of ever diagnosed and current ADHD among U.S. children aged 3–17 years. Among children with current ADHD, ADHD severity, presence of current co-occurring disorders, and receipt of medication and behavioral treatment were estimated. Weighted estimates were calculated overall and for demographic and clinical subgroups (
n = 45,169).
Results
Approximately 1 in 9 U.S. children have ever received an ADHD diagnosis (11.4%, 7.1 million children) and 10.5% (6.5 million) had current ADHD. Among children with current ADHD, 58.1% had moderate or severe ADHD, 77.9% had at least one co-occurring disorder, approximately half of children with current ADHD (53.6%) received ADHD medication, and 44.4% had received behavioral treatment for ADHD in the past year; nearly one third (30.1%) did not receive any ADHD-specific treatment.
Actually yes, at 9 days from my 59th birthday it took them till I was damn near 40 to figure it out.
I am the first one to say, there are a GREAT DEAL of spoiled children, and this is something that is slapped on to cover up zero disipline in parenting, however if you come to the point where (in my day) no amount of spankings would adjust your behavior then there just might be something else going on.
Your brain does not work "normal". I have two stories I will share that will show you just what I am talking about.
One of the tanks on one of the upstairs toilets just cracked, no one was at home it just cracked. We opened up the garage and saw a waterfall. To make a long story short we need a new toilet. So I go looking at them. And I went way off on the deep end with this. I was three months researching the toilets when the wife said, you know we really need to replace this. Ok. And I went and bought one. Do you know they fill balloons with play doe to "simulate" solid waste......I was doing this all day, reading watching videos, flow rates, gallons per minute per flush, there is a difference. It was really insane.
Then about six months later the AC in the house goes poof, well really not poof, but psssst. It started leaking. I could not force myself to read one thing on them. Zero interest. I really tried to research the differences, the different companies.....I flat could not do it. If I was 7 that would be another beating, I just looked at the words but could not "read" them. So a $300 thing I could know everything about, but the $10,000 thing there was flat no way. The wife just chose one, I could care less. Is it cool, yes, ok good enough.
There is zero telling where your mind will look at, in school it was very difficult, but there was one thing I just inhaled, diagraming atoms and figuring what combined with what. My mind could just see it, and the "smart" people had no idea just how I did it that fast and correctly. You can just "see" it.
We also test like hell, you will read what you want to read. This is not good on tests, things like, what one is NOT like the others, you flat will not see the "not". You put words in that are not there. You are just going to fast, when asked you know the answer, but you missed the same question on the test. You flat DO NOT test well AT ALL.
I am also dyslexic as well, not as bad as some people, my issues are with numbers. I can watch them change places on the screen or in print. I will also see numbers that are just not there. Makes manually dialing a phone number a real pain in the ass. Back before cell phones and you had to memorize phone numbers, I memorized patterns. I knew what pattern went with who.
It is a thing, but like most things it is used as a band-aid for other issues, be they mental or social. I would say if you have a kid, or grand kid in your life, and you really think something is wonky there really might be. And it is not all bad, you have the ability to "hyper focus" on something, like me and the toilet. That might not be all bad. Most people need constant change in their life, always having input, this is why video games are such a crutch. Find what ever you might think his "trigger" is, steer him that way. If it sticks you might have found the thing that will keep him going. Doing something they hate is a death by a thousand cuts to these people.
This is a pretty good video.
thepostmillennial.com
