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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 410084" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Thanks a lot for your views and thoughts. This psychologist (actually a child psychologist called a "psychomotricienne" which is a profession I have never encountered outside of France - works physically with small children who have manifested various "problems") actually meant, I think - certainly this is how I understood it at the time - that the actual proportion of children who TRULY have ADHD, ie a neurobiiological condition, is small compared to the proportion who are JUDGED to have it... She was speaking from her experience, that is what she said. </p><p>In terms of my son, I find his behaviour confusing. That is to say, with me he is constantly hyperactive, jumping around, cascading off sofas, spinning, turning, etc; taking him to shops is not pleasant because he will never stay with me but is running everywhere touching everything, climbing where he shouldn't be, etc. However, at school the teaching tells me that he is "restless" but sits for up to an hour alongside the other children, doing the little exercises they do, apparently without too much distress on his part. When I leave him with childminders, they tell me he is "good", more active than most but nothing like he is at home... he doesn't jump on other people's sofas, for example, except when I am present!! It is all very mysterious... At the same time he has a compulsion to touch things all the time as in classic ADHD, has to "physically interact" with all he encounters - children, adult, animal, inanimate, etc, etc... </p><p>Is it "normal" for hyperactive children to be more or less hyperactive in different situations? To be honest, I feel my head spinning with all this sometimes - is he, isn't he?? Physically he is clearly much more active and restless than the "norm" but doesn't seem to have particular problems concentrating... </p><p>And I imagine these questions and doubts are shared by many parents now that ADHD has become so widely known and talked about... This is what my psychologist meant, as I say - lots of people are medicating their children needlessly. Which is not to say that the quality of SOME children's lives is not greatly improved by taking medication... IBut I don't want my son, in my own view, taking something with potentially very serious side effects unless it is absolutely indispensable. </p><p>A shame ADHD cannot be simply diagnosed via a brain scan...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 410084, member: 11227"] Thanks a lot for your views and thoughts. This psychologist (actually a child psychologist called a "psychomotricienne" which is a profession I have never encountered outside of France - works physically with small children who have manifested various "problems") actually meant, I think - certainly this is how I understood it at the time - that the actual proportion of children who TRULY have ADHD, ie a neurobiiological condition, is small compared to the proportion who are JUDGED to have it... She was speaking from her experience, that is what she said. In terms of my son, I find his behaviour confusing. That is to say, with me he is constantly hyperactive, jumping around, cascading off sofas, spinning, turning, etc; taking him to shops is not pleasant because he will never stay with me but is running everywhere touching everything, climbing where he shouldn't be, etc. However, at school the teaching tells me that he is "restless" but sits for up to an hour alongside the other children, doing the little exercises they do, apparently without too much distress on his part. When I leave him with childminders, they tell me he is "good", more active than most but nothing like he is at home... he doesn't jump on other people's sofas, for example, except when I am present!! It is all very mysterious... At the same time he has a compulsion to touch things all the time as in classic ADHD, has to "physically interact" with all he encounters - children, adult, animal, inanimate, etc, etc... Is it "normal" for hyperactive children to be more or less hyperactive in different situations? To be honest, I feel my head spinning with all this sometimes - is he, isn't he?? Physically he is clearly much more active and restless than the "norm" but doesn't seem to have particular problems concentrating... And I imagine these questions and doubts are shared by many parents now that ADHD has become so widely known and talked about... This is what my psychologist meant, as I say - lots of people are medicating their children needlessly. Which is not to say that the quality of SOME children's lives is not greatly improved by taking medication... IBut I don't want my son, in my own view, taking something with potentially very serious side effects unless it is absolutely indispensable. A shame ADHD cannot be simply diagnosed via a brain scan... [/QUOTE]
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