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Originally Posted by Felicity
A lot of the questions asked in that quiz to me just pointed to impatience. I don't think being impatient makes a person ADHD.
It was suggested to me that one of my sons (the younger) was ADHD but I rejected it and one of the reasons I did was because he could concentrate and sit still and listen and learn with no problem at all to something he was interested in.
He wasn't hyperactive at all in the way we normally think of it.
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Felicity,
You can have ADD without the hyperactivity. My daughter is this way. She was tested and in comprehension she was very, very low, however as most ADD students, she is almost boderline gifted in other areas.
She can only focus on one thing at a time and cannot be interupted or she forgets what she was going to say. She took Concerta for her junior year in HS and made straight A's as the result of it. I could even tell a difference in her handwritting. However, she didn't like the "feeling" the meds gave her and after we discussed it, winged off of them and decided lesser grades were better than having that weird feeling taking the meds.
I do believe meds have been over prescribed through the years for sure.
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