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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 555739" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>IC has a pretty good idea there with running the length of the field. As for the controlled fidgets, the key with me was not so much getting my agreement (or they never would have worked), but challenging me to do something difficult that required focus and concentration. So -- my dance teacher would challenge me to do something like silent walking paradiddles, which, if you know tap dance, is next to impossible. It's creating a 4-beat movement with your feet while walking, and doing all of that silently. Working on that took up all my energy and attention so that I didn't have time to be a pest.</p><p></p><p>With regard to the coach, rather than explaining that J has ADHD, maybe try explaining that J fidgets a lot and needs to be kept busy. Sometimes people are just confused by an unfamiliar diagnosis, but if you give them direction about how to manage the behaviour (because ultimately they don't really care about why, only what and how...), then you might make more headway. None of my coaches or teachers ever knew that I had a "diagnosis", they just knew that I was the squirmiest kid ever, and they needed to give me stuff to do to make me un-squirm.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 555739, member: 3907"] IC has a pretty good idea there with running the length of the field. As for the controlled fidgets, the key with me was not so much getting my agreement (or they never would have worked), but challenging me to do something difficult that required focus and concentration. So -- my dance teacher would challenge me to do something like silent walking paradiddles, which, if you know tap dance, is next to impossible. It's creating a 4-beat movement with your feet while walking, and doing all of that silently. Working on that took up all my energy and attention so that I didn't have time to be a pest. With regard to the coach, rather than explaining that J has ADHD, maybe try explaining that J fidgets a lot and needs to be kept busy. Sometimes people are just confused by an unfamiliar diagnosis, but if you give them direction about how to manage the behaviour (because ultimately they don't really care about why, only what and how...), then you might make more headway. None of my coaches or teachers ever knew that I had a "diagnosis", they just knew that I was the squirmiest kid ever, and they needed to give me stuff to do to make me un-squirm. [/QUOTE]
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