Do ADHD Children Grow up to be ADHD adults?
Consider this case: A young man needs to be at the hospital to be with his wife in labor; he comes home briefly to pick up a few supplies before he runs back. Just as he is about to close the door before he leaves, he notices that the birdcage seems a bit unclean. He feels he has a minute to brush the crumbs out before he leaves; 20 minutes later, he notices, startled, that he's forgotten all about his wife and the birth of their child, and that he has been steadily cleaning the cage quite minutely all this while. Anyone can get a little over-involved in something not entirely reasonably; but to go this far, is quite easily to be suspected of ADHD. It used to be that childhood ADHD or ADHD children was the only kind; today those children have grown up to become ADHD adults, who are just as affected.
People tend to easily lose patience with ADHD children as well as adults. It's just that they are so well-adjusted in every other way, so obviously intelligent, and so capable, that any problem is easily chalked up to a bad attitude. "Couldn't they just concentrate if they tried", people wonder. Could they not be less flaky and unreliable? That really isn't very kind; ADHD children aren't really this way by choice - ADHD happens to be based in the brain in a very fundamental way over which they have no control. Adults with this problem, often frustrated with their lot are tempted to find someone to blame. ADHD runs in families usually, and an impatient parenting style can easily attract all the blame. As it happens though, no kind of parenting style actually causes ADHD; some kinds might aggravate it though.
For most ADHD children and adults, it could not have come soon enough, the 1998 official recognition of the disease in the US. Now that there is a legitimate name for their suffering, it should be easy for people to find a little more sympathy for their lot. Not that anyone is letting go of the grouse with ADHD sufferers easily. The cynics wonder if ADHD is just a trumped-up non-existent disease manufactured by the Pharma industry to be able to sell a few more medicines. There are also those who wonder if computer viruses are made by the antivirus software people just to be able to sell the antidote. But there is a grain of something in what they charge. The drug that is used to treat ADHD, Ritalin, has been selling unbelievably well in the past five years: more like a commodity than a carefully prescribed drug.
But there is no need to worry with a conspiracy theory at this point; the medical community is as prone to overreaction as any other. Once this relatively new disease is properly established, there will undoubtedly be a proper protocol that will be followed on how to prescribe. For now, plenty of Internet quizzes exist that'll help you diagnose yourself for a condition. You can't just say to yourself, “Oh I have trouble concentrating, I'm impatient and can't sit tight - I must have ADHD”. It might well be, that you're just more intelligence than most, and get impatient with unchallenging situations.
Consider this case: A young man needs to be at the hospital to be with his wife in labor; he comes home briefly to pick up a few supplies before he runs back. Just as he is about to close the door before he leaves, he notices that the birdcage seems a bit unclean. He feels he has a minute to brush the crumbs out before he leaves; 20 minutes later, he notices, startled, that he's forgotten all about his wife and the birth of their child, and that he has been steadily cleaning the cage quite minutely all this while. Anyone can get a little over-involved in something not entirely reasonably; but to go this far, is quite easily to be suspected of ADHD. It used to be that childhood ADHD or ADHD children was the only kind; today those children have grown up to become ADHD adults, who are just as affected.
People tend to easily lose patience with ADHD children as well as adults. It's just that they are so well-adjusted in every other way, so obviously intelligent, and so capable, that any problem is easily chalked up to a bad attitude. "Couldn't they just concentrate if they tried", people wonder. Could they not be less flaky and unreliable? That really isn't very kind; ADHD children aren't really this way by choice - ADHD happens to be based in the brain in a very fundamental way over which they have no control. Adults with this problem, often frustrated with their lot are tempted to find someone to blame. ADHD runs in families usually, and an impatient parenting style can easily attract all the blame. As it happens though, no kind of parenting style actually causes ADHD; some kinds might aggravate it though.
For most ADHD children and adults, it could not have come soon enough, the 1998 official recognition of the disease in the US. Now that there is a legitimate name for their suffering, it should be easy for people to find a little more sympathy for their lot. Not that anyone is letting go of the grouse with ADHD sufferers easily. The cynics wonder if ADHD is just a trumped-up non-existent disease manufactured by the Pharma industry to be able to sell a few more medicines. There are also those who wonder if computer viruses are made by the antivirus software people just to be able to sell the antidote. But there is a grain of something in what they charge. The drug that is used to treat ADHD, Ritalin, has been selling unbelievably well in the past five years: more like a commodity than a carefully prescribed drug.
But there is no need to worry with a conspiracy theory at this point; the medical community is as prone to overreaction as any other. Once this relatively new disease is properly established, there will undoubtedly be a proper protocol that will be followed on how to prescribe. For now, plenty of Internet quizzes exist that'll help you diagnose yourself for a condition. You can't just say to yourself, “Oh I have trouble concentrating, I'm impatient and can't sit tight - I must have ADHD”. It might well be, that you're just more intelligence than most, and get impatient with unchallenging situations.
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