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<blockquote data-quote="Andy" data-source="post: 439412" data-attributes="member: 5096"><p>I think a lot of things do "appear" when a child reaches elementary school. Many of the behaviors are discounted as "normal, if yet extreme" and many parents don't give it a 2nd thought until they "see" it in the classroom environment. A parent may have a strong willed child and not even think there is any medical reason for it. Society sends the message that if your child doesn't behave than you as a parent are doing something wrong. So, if you do not have experience with kids with ADHD or other issues, you may not recognize the added need for assistance.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child has been diagnosed with ADHD. It did not "appear" until he was 12 years old. He was the perfect child until his anxiety attack and all behaviors broke loose. There was no sign that he had any issues until he was 11 1/2 years old. When he started falling apart, we were all baffled.</p><p></p><p>The ADHD was diagnosed from a neuro psychiatric exam. The doctor stated it was a unique form (for lack of better words). difficult child seemed to be super focused at times and than at other times very distracted almost like one extreme of nothing to the other extreme of definitaly having ADHD.</p><p></p><p>I think many kids may not get diagnosed until maybe 5th - 9th grades when school becomes harder. So many of these kids are very smart and can work around/through their difficulties without parents seeing them struggle. Too bad it is so hard for older kids to get the help they want since many middle school teachers would rather write the student off as lazy or uninterested. There really needs to be a push into helping the older kids who have done well in elementary school and start to struggle in middle school - there just may be ADHD or something else going on that they hid well in elementary school.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy, post: 439412, member: 5096"] I think a lot of things do "appear" when a child reaches elementary school. Many of the behaviors are discounted as "normal, if yet extreme" and many parents don't give it a 2nd thought until they "see" it in the classroom environment. A parent may have a strong willed child and not even think there is any medical reason for it. Society sends the message that if your child doesn't behave than you as a parent are doing something wrong. So, if you do not have experience with kids with ADHD or other issues, you may not recognize the added need for assistance. My difficult child has been diagnosed with ADHD. It did not "appear" until he was 12 years old. He was the perfect child until his anxiety attack and all behaviors broke loose. There was no sign that he had any issues until he was 11 1/2 years old. When he started falling apart, we were all baffled. The ADHD was diagnosed from a neuro psychiatric exam. The doctor stated it was a unique form (for lack of better words). difficult child seemed to be super focused at times and than at other times very distracted almost like one extreme of nothing to the other extreme of definitaly having ADHD. I think many kids may not get diagnosed until maybe 5th - 9th grades when school becomes harder. So many of these kids are very smart and can work around/through their difficulties without parents seeing them struggle. Too bad it is so hard for older kids to get the help they want since many middle school teachers would rather write the student off as lazy or uninterested. There really needs to be a push into helping the older kids who have done well in elementary school and start to struggle in middle school - there just may be ADHD or something else going on that they hid well in elementary school. [/QUOTE]
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