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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 438528" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>No, I don't have ADHD, Insane <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> </p><p>Yes, you point to something that I think of a fair bit. J seems to cope with his kindergarten level now (though they sit doing "school" type stuff for extended periods) and I suspect that is because it is still quite fun and lightweight, obviously. Primary (elementary) school here in France is, frankly, dull as ditchwater - learning by rote, only one right answer possible, French grammar and mathematics all day long, little attempt made to make it fun and exciting for kids. And I just can't see J dealing with that very well - and his disruptiveness/inattentiveness may come to the fore. Though as mentioned, J seems far more hyperactive and impulsive than he is inattentive - though obviously those two qualities have an impact on attentiveness also. </p><p>I did try the caffeine experiment - he drank half a cup of quite strong caffeine and it just made him more hyper... The knowledge of/treatment for ADHD seems more advanced in the UK (where people complain, as they do in the States, of over-diagnosis and misdiagnosis) than here. But I don't really know that for sure, having proceeded only a little way down the medical/psychiatric path... I spoke to our general medical doctor the other day about J - he has seen him since he was three and has always said that he didn't think he had ADHD (another one!) and that he thought his hyperactivity was due to factors such as the adoption, my divorce, our moving around, etc. Now he says it seems clearer that, after a year of stability here, the hyperactivity is more innate than that... he now seems to accept that he may well have ADHD and said we have to monitor the situation carefully, via a pyschiatrist at the hospital. For whom there is, of course, as always a long waiting list. </p><p>Thanks for sharing your experience with medication, MWM. Do medications help with "meanness"?? In J's case, he is basically a sweet, sociable child but it all goes wrong frequently because he does not seem yet to have grasped that blurting out hurtful things or calling other children names when he is upset/thwarted does not go down well... Is there a medication that would magically help him stop doing that?? I suspect not... but find myself fantasising that there could be. And yes, that's right, to drug the lively spiritedness out of children does not seem like it could be a worthy aim... </p><p>But I am SO in the dark with it all! No clue about medications at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 438528, member: 11227"] No, I don't have ADHD, Insane :) Yes, you point to something that I think of a fair bit. J seems to cope with his kindergarten level now (though they sit doing "school" type stuff for extended periods) and I suspect that is because it is still quite fun and lightweight, obviously. Primary (elementary) school here in France is, frankly, dull as ditchwater - learning by rote, only one right answer possible, French grammar and mathematics all day long, little attempt made to make it fun and exciting for kids. And I just can't see J dealing with that very well - and his disruptiveness/inattentiveness may come to the fore. Though as mentioned, J seems far more hyperactive and impulsive than he is inattentive - though obviously those two qualities have an impact on attentiveness also. I did try the caffeine experiment - he drank half a cup of quite strong caffeine and it just made him more hyper... The knowledge of/treatment for ADHD seems more advanced in the UK (where people complain, as they do in the States, of over-diagnosis and misdiagnosis) than here. But I don't really know that for sure, having proceeded only a little way down the medical/psychiatric path... I spoke to our general medical doctor the other day about J - he has seen him since he was three and has always said that he didn't think he had ADHD (another one!) and that he thought his hyperactivity was due to factors such as the adoption, my divorce, our moving around, etc. Now he says it seems clearer that, after a year of stability here, the hyperactivity is more innate than that... he now seems to accept that he may well have ADHD and said we have to monitor the situation carefully, via a pyschiatrist at the hospital. For whom there is, of course, as always a long waiting list. Thanks for sharing your experience with medication, MWM. Do medications help with "meanness"?? In J's case, he is basically a sweet, sociable child but it all goes wrong frequently because he does not seem yet to have grasped that blurting out hurtful things or calling other children names when he is upset/thwarted does not go down well... Is there a medication that would magically help him stop doing that?? I suspect not... but find myself fantasising that there could be. And yes, that's right, to drug the lively spiritedness out of children does not seem like it could be a worthy aim... But I am SO in the dark with it all! No clue about medications at all. [/QUOTE]
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