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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 429629" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks for the supportive words. </p><p>Actually, Insane, the psychiatrist told me that 30 per cent of people grow out of ADHD at adolescence... I've read something like this figure before, but I think it is disputed (like most figures)?</p><p>I really do think there are "plus" sides to ADHD, in my short experience of it. I appreciate my son's playfulness, creative and unusual thinking (this morning he woke up and announced, "I'm half a boy and half a tiger!") and in a sense his energy. "Ordinary" children now seem to me curiously pale and lifeless... I might change my mind if I had one, but I don't so... Also the journey for me has been interesting - has forced me to grow and change in ways I would not have done otherwise. </p><p>As for treatment in France, I think it's probably a very different scene to the US. ADHD is well-known there, as in the UK, but here few people have heard of it (obviously doctors are different!) School is very important here, very academic and rather linear and rational, so ADHD kids have a hard time in school I think. It is an acceptable and respectable option not to medicate here, which it may not be in the States. So the two ends of the spectrum - there you have information overload, perhaps; it is all virgin territory.</p><p>Now I have to decide what to do about school, whether I tell them he has ADHD. I am tempted to leave it for the moment. The teacher clearly thinks I'm being a bit neurotic about him, imagining he has difficulties that he doesn't, and school for the moment works well for him. I just sense it will all change with reading/writing and when the curriculum starts getting rather less creative and fun. Then I will have to explain, so that they understand and make allowances.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 429629, member: 11227"] Thanks for the supportive words. Actually, Insane, the psychiatrist told me that 30 per cent of people grow out of ADHD at adolescence... I've read something like this figure before, but I think it is disputed (like most figures)? I really do think there are "plus" sides to ADHD, in my short experience of it. I appreciate my son's playfulness, creative and unusual thinking (this morning he woke up and announced, "I'm half a boy and half a tiger!") and in a sense his energy. "Ordinary" children now seem to me curiously pale and lifeless... I might change my mind if I had one, but I don't so... Also the journey for me has been interesting - has forced me to grow and change in ways I would not have done otherwise. As for treatment in France, I think it's probably a very different scene to the US. ADHD is well-known there, as in the UK, but here few people have heard of it (obviously doctors are different!) School is very important here, very academic and rather linear and rational, so ADHD kids have a hard time in school I think. It is an acceptable and respectable option not to medicate here, which it may not be in the States. So the two ends of the spectrum - there you have information overload, perhaps; it is all virgin territory. Now I have to decide what to do about school, whether I tell them he has ADHD. I am tempted to leave it for the moment. The teacher clearly thinks I'm being a bit neurotic about him, imagining he has difficulties that he doesn't, and school for the moment works well for him. I just sense it will all change with reading/writing and when the curriculum starts getting rather less creative and fun. Then I will have to explain, so that they understand and make allowances. [/QUOTE]
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