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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 432243" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>It's an inexact science (being the pedantic wordsmith I am, isn't that an oxymoron?!)... okay. But I would LOVE to know more exactly what is happening in J's brain that causes these behavioural manifestations. Lack of dopamine, some people say... I'd love to be able to talk about it with some sense of meaning and reality, rather than this continual stabbing in the dark. Even if the child psychiatrist issues the diagnosis, she isn't really basing it on anything more scientific than her observtions and what me and the teachers say about him. </p><p>I am wondering if there is a book written in layman's language which sets out what ADHD is and how it manifests? I would like something to give to a particular friend of mine to help educate him. He has taken against J, having witnessed several of his best tantrums on a walk once, and is certain that he just needs several good clips round the ear that I am not providing... I have tried to explain. I'm not sure that he really believes me. I find this saddening and difficult to deal with because he has more or less written off J as a horrible brat and has told me he doesn't like J - something about J's testerone-filled mock aggression, talk and behaviour seems to go down very badly with him... Since almost everyone else always says how sweet J can be, it hurts my heart to hear someone dismissing a 4 year old as a bad'un... This man I should point out is single and has never had children. </p><p>J needs to have as much practice with socialising with adults and a mix of people as he can get. Because things are often difficult with him when we are with friends, it is hard to push through this to keep doing it. But it is the only way he will learn, if he gets practice. I am going to see this friend this morning, actually. I would like to talk to him a bit more about ADHD and explosive children and ask him to come on other walks with me and J together... I am going to lend him "The Explosive Child" and ask him to read the first chapter...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 432243, member: 11227"] It's an inexact science (being the pedantic wordsmith I am, isn't that an oxymoron?!)... okay. But I would LOVE to know more exactly what is happening in J's brain that causes these behavioural manifestations. Lack of dopamine, some people say... I'd love to be able to talk about it with some sense of meaning and reality, rather than this continual stabbing in the dark. Even if the child psychiatrist issues the diagnosis, she isn't really basing it on anything more scientific than her observtions and what me and the teachers say about him. I am wondering if there is a book written in layman's language which sets out what ADHD is and how it manifests? I would like something to give to a particular friend of mine to help educate him. He has taken against J, having witnessed several of his best tantrums on a walk once, and is certain that he just needs several good clips round the ear that I am not providing... I have tried to explain. I'm not sure that he really believes me. I find this saddening and difficult to deal with because he has more or less written off J as a horrible brat and has told me he doesn't like J - something about J's testerone-filled mock aggression, talk and behaviour seems to go down very badly with him... Since almost everyone else always says how sweet J can be, it hurts my heart to hear someone dismissing a 4 year old as a bad'un... This man I should point out is single and has never had children. J needs to have as much practice with socialising with adults and a mix of people as he can get. Because things are often difficult with him when we are with friends, it is hard to push through this to keep doing it. But it is the only way he will learn, if he gets practice. I am going to see this friend this morning, actually. I would like to talk to him a bit more about ADHD and explosive children and ask him to come on other walks with me and J together... I am going to lend him "The Explosive Child" and ask him to read the first chapter... [/QUOTE]
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