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<blockquote data-quote="Malika" data-source="post: 540539" data-attributes="member: 11227"><p>Hi pepperidge. No, you haven't seriously annoyed me! Have to try harder <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Seriously, though, I do think it is normal and natural to want to know what is going on - what is the cause, what is the manifestation? I particularly have a mind like that, I don't know. But of course it is in a sense a luxury and the vital thing, as you say, is to get to know how to handle the behaviour, etc. </p><p>The problem here, as elsewhere, is that without a diagnosis people just see the child as "naughty", badly brought up, wild, etc. And then, in France at least, even with a diagnosis people's expectation and behaviour doesn't change; on this forum for parents of ADHD kids, there is a depressing litany of testimonies of how teachers constantly punish and scapegoat the ADHD child, even after the diagnosis and repeated attempts of the parents to make the teachers understand and take the condition into consideration. Just doesn't happen... but somwhere, sometime, with some people it presumably does? And then the medications - I am curious to see what a stimulant would do to/for J because of his hyperactivity that serves him ill socially. </p><p>It is interesting that J sounds just like your son. Does/did your son also have the good stuff? I have seen J get increasingly co-operative, less rude and defiant (not saying that has disappeared, just lessened in frequency and intensity), he is reasonably often to be mistaken for a easy child - helpful, polite, tractable and so on. And then his impulses will be set off at some trigger and... all the wild cats fly out of the bag. If your son also presented this uneven picture, did it mean people sometimes told you nothing was wrong? Did/does he concentrate well at school and get good results? I am interested to know more!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malika, post: 540539, member: 11227"] Hi pepperidge. No, you haven't seriously annoyed me! Have to try harder :) Seriously, though, I do think it is normal and natural to want to know what is going on - what is the cause, what is the manifestation? I particularly have a mind like that, I don't know. But of course it is in a sense a luxury and the vital thing, as you say, is to get to know how to handle the behaviour, etc. The problem here, as elsewhere, is that without a diagnosis people just see the child as "naughty", badly brought up, wild, etc. And then, in France at least, even with a diagnosis people's expectation and behaviour doesn't change; on this forum for parents of ADHD kids, there is a depressing litany of testimonies of how teachers constantly punish and scapegoat the ADHD child, even after the diagnosis and repeated attempts of the parents to make the teachers understand and take the condition into consideration. Just doesn't happen... but somwhere, sometime, with some people it presumably does? And then the medications - I am curious to see what a stimulant would do to/for J because of his hyperactivity that serves him ill socially. It is interesting that J sounds just like your son. Does/did your son also have the good stuff? I have seen J get increasingly co-operative, less rude and defiant (not saying that has disappeared, just lessened in frequency and intensity), he is reasonably often to be mistaken for a easy child - helpful, polite, tractable and so on. And then his impulses will be set off at some trigger and... all the wild cats fly out of the bag. If your son also presented this uneven picture, did it mean people sometimes told you nothing was wrong? Did/does he concentrate well at school and get good results? I am interested to know more! [/QUOTE]
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