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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 466621" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>For the record - Folacin in in the same family as Ritalin. These are all short-acting medications - out of your system the same day. So, these don't tend to have the "honeymoon" period... there's usually only 4 outcomes... medications work as expected, medications do nothing, medications produce severe reaction (possible with ANY medication), or the balance of effect vs. side-effect isn't worth it (too little effect, too much side-effect).</p><p></p><p>Teachers not noticing ADHD? With "ADD" (they don't make the technical split any more, its now ADHD-inattentive), teachers USUALLY don't "see" it. The hyper ones are MUCH more obvious. The student who behaves well but seems a bit "slow" isn't caught as having an issue... These ones can be looking right at the teacher - and be a million miles away. We had to fight to get medications for K2... in Kindergarten. Once we did... the teacher picked my brain for hours to figure out what she had missed and why... but its really hard to detect unless you know the child well.</p><p></p><p>ADHD is one of the most mis-diagnosed conditions. Way too many kids get this diagnosis who really have something else (or else just extreme edges of "normal")... and way too many kids who should be getting the diagnosis, get missed. That doesn't invalidate the diagnosis.</p><p></p><p>The whole "hold him back" discussion? There's multiple angles to this. We moved ahead with early-start, then kicked ourselves for years for doing so... NOW? No regrets, because we need to be able to add an extra year NOW (slow down highschool, take 3 grades in 4 years), and difficult child isn't fighting against that because he's "peers" with both the older and the younger ones. There is no "right answer".</p><p></p><p>And it must be even tougher to be the Grandma and not the parent, sometimes!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 466621, member: 11791"] For the record - Folacin in in the same family as Ritalin. These are all short-acting medications - out of your system the same day. So, these don't tend to have the "honeymoon" period... there's usually only 4 outcomes... medications work as expected, medications do nothing, medications produce severe reaction (possible with ANY medication), or the balance of effect vs. side-effect isn't worth it (too little effect, too much side-effect). Teachers not noticing ADHD? With "ADD" (they don't make the technical split any more, its now ADHD-inattentive), teachers USUALLY don't "see" it. The hyper ones are MUCH more obvious. The student who behaves well but seems a bit "slow" isn't caught as having an issue... These ones can be looking right at the teacher - and be a million miles away. We had to fight to get medications for K2... in Kindergarten. Once we did... the teacher picked my brain for hours to figure out what she had missed and why... but its really hard to detect unless you know the child well. ADHD is one of the most mis-diagnosed conditions. Way too many kids get this diagnosis who really have something else (or else just extreme edges of "normal")... and way too many kids who should be getting the diagnosis, get missed. That doesn't invalidate the diagnosis. The whole "hold him back" discussion? There's multiple angles to this. We moved ahead with early-start, then kicked ourselves for years for doing so... NOW? No regrets, because we need to be able to add an extra year NOW (slow down highschool, take 3 grades in 4 years), and difficult child isn't fighting against that because he's "peers" with both the older and the younger ones. There is no "right answer". And it must be even tougher to be the Grandma and not the parent, sometimes! [/QUOTE]
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