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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 430175" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Yes, interesting. A Canadian child psychiatrist I know has an unusual theory about hyperactivity, that there are four types (from memory) one of which is a hyperactivity that has been passed down genetically from prehistoric times when men had to be hyper-vigilant to hunt and so on. He believes that children with this type of hyperactivity, or ADHD as we now say, are highly perceptive and NOT receptive to medication...</p><p>On this business of people's reactions to ADHD, I am beginning to understand why so many people have said to me that they don't think J can have ADHD (starting with his French nursery school principal in Marrakesh when he was 2 and 3)... I was talking to a childminder today who sometimes looks after him and I told her that J has virtually been diagnosed with ADHD. She expressed her usual surprise, as she has before. "But he's so affectionate!," she said. "And he does listen, and he holds my hand if we go out and doesn't play around. And he's not like the children I've seen on the television..." And then I remembered - EVERYONE says this, everyone says he is not like the children they've seen on television (including the Marrakesh lady)... So what is this, what has she seen on television? Oh, a programme showing hyperactive children, she said, and they were screaming and rolling around on the floor and shouting at anyone who talked to them, throwing things at them...</p><p>Oh my giddy aunt, I thought! What an irresponsible, sensationalist view of ADHD is being portrayed on TV here if that is how they come across - and no wonder people keep saying J cannot have it... ADHD children are not monsters, I told the childminder! And of course they are affectionate, and not constantly out of control... Oy vey...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 430175, member: 11227"] Yes, interesting. A Canadian child psychiatrist I know has an unusual theory about hyperactivity, that there are four types (from memory) one of which is a hyperactivity that has been passed down genetically from prehistoric times when men had to be hyper-vigilant to hunt and so on. He believes that children with this type of hyperactivity, or ADHD as we now say, are highly perceptive and NOT receptive to medication... On this business of people's reactions to ADHD, I am beginning to understand why so many people have said to me that they don't think J can have ADHD (starting with his French nursery school principal in Marrakesh when he was 2 and 3)... I was talking to a childminder today who sometimes looks after him and I told her that J has virtually been diagnosed with ADHD. She expressed her usual surprise, as she has before. "But he's so affectionate!," she said. "And he does listen, and he holds my hand if we go out and doesn't play around. And he's not like the children I've seen on the television..." And then I remembered - EVERYONE says this, everyone says he is not like the children they've seen on television (including the Marrakesh lady)... So what is this, what has she seen on television? Oh, a programme showing hyperactive children, she said, and they were screaming and rolling around on the floor and shouting at anyone who talked to them, throwing things at them... Oh my giddy aunt, I thought! What an irresponsible, sensationalist view of ADHD is being portrayed on TV here if that is how they come across - and no wonder people keep saying J cannot have it... ADHD children are not monsters, I told the childminder! And of course they are affectionate, and not constantly out of control... Oy vey... [/QUOTE]
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