Is there anyone whose male child doesn't have ADHD or ADD?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine do not. 4thand6th grade.

They could always sit still, pay attention and listen intently to teachers and coaches. Both could concentrate at tasks.

Most ADHD kids I know were given constant access to iPads, iPhones, video games and TV from a young age. Dinner out? Here’s my iPhone. Car trip? Watch movies or play on phone non-stop. It’s creating socially f-caked up kids that can’t self modulate or sit still.

Correlation does not equal causation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ADHD, unmedicated for ADHD (but medicated for anxiety), early 40's, successful but plateaued. Use a ton of strategies to stay on top of things to the extent that I do. I have 1 kid with ADHD, ASD, and LD, 1 probably has ADHD but not tested, and 1 too early to tell. I manage to get most of the important things done.

For a frame or reference on ADHD, it took my 10yo 45 minutes to complete 9 long division problems. He lost his pencil about 10 times during the process.


May I ask why don't you medicate yourself? We have similar profiles and kids, and I can't imagine doing this while trying to manage a special needs kid, her sibling and my full-time job. I was without my meds for about three months and never again. Never, ever again. What a nightmare for us all. I also use strategies, but they were not enough to get me through the day without the meds.

[Anonymous]

I am so sad to see this board. I have twins with adhd. I am a physician. In middle school, they can't do a simple task like get breakfast and then put on shoes and brush teeth much less organize a note book. It isn't just a cute thing where someone spaces out every once in a while. It is associated with bipolar depression low self esteem and anxiety. It is associated with poor job retention and substance abuse. I am fortunate that they have taught need to have compassion for others that do not have it as easy as I do. I am only sad that they are living in a world with people as nasty as those on this message board. For some it can be as disabling as a physical disability. There are some people who require glasses for a slight Vision impairment and some who are nearly blind. Anyone who thanks it is all due to poor parenting should spend some time with some of our kids who have ADHD and try it their way and they will see that they are severely mistaken and that a lot of there good fortune it having typical kids has been just that, luck

[Anonymous]

I am so sad to see this board. I have twins with adhd. I am a physician. In middle school, they can't do a simple task like get breakfast and then put on shoes and brush teeth much less organize a note book. It isn't just a cute thing where someone spaces out every once in a while. It is associated with bipolar depression low self esteem and anxiety. It is associated with poor job retention and substance abuse. I am fortunate that they have taught me the need to have compassion for others that do not have it as easy as I do. I am only sad that they are living in a world with people as nasty as those on this message board. For some it can be as disabling as a physical disability. There are degrees of severity just as there are some people who require glasses for a slight vision impairment and some who are nearly blind. Anyone who thinks it is all due to poor parenting should spend some time with some of our kids who have ADHD and try parenting their way and they will see that they are severely mistaken and that a lot of thier good fortune in having typical kids has little to due with parenting and been just luck

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happens to all these ADHD and ADD kids when they grow up?
Do they stay on meds their whole life?
What do their adult lives look like?
Are their kids more likely to also have ADHD/ADD?

10% of the US population are addicts. It is nit hard to figure out why.

Only 10? Seems a lot higher, if you take all sorts of prescriptions, alcohol abuse, and legal and illegal drugs into consideration. 85% likely.

Non-drugged normal people are in the minority.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine do not. 4thand6th grade.

They could always sit still, pay attention and listen intently to teachers and coaches. Both could concentrate at tasks.

Most ADHD kids I know were given constant access to iPads, iPhones, video games and TV from a young age. Dinner out? Here’s my iPhone. Car trip? Watch movies or play on phone non-stop. It’s creating socially f-caked up kids that can’t self modulate or sit still.

And yet my 24 YO has ADHD and grew up before smart phones were a thing, watched no TV until age 2 and very little after that, and we’ve never had a video gaming system. She also never had behavior issues. ADHD presents itself in various ways.

I don't think most people think ADHD is not real, just that it's over diagnosed.

+1

[phone] it certainly does not help the physicians are only trained to dispense what the pharma industry wants them to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine do not. 4thand6th grade.

They could always sit still, pay attention and listen intently to teachers and coaches. Both could concentrate at tasks.

Most ADHD kids I know were given constant access to iPads, iPhones, video games and TV from a young age. Dinner out? Here’s my iPhone. Car trip? Watch movies or play on phone non-stop. It’s creating socially f-caked up kids that can’t self modulate or sit still.

My kid isn't diagnosed, but may be at some point. One of the first things we noticed was that he never had any interest in TV, iPads, etc. All he wants to do is GO GO GO.

Nice try, though.

[Anonymous]

My son (16) doesn't have it. He does have Exec Functioning issues, though.

His sister (14) has serious ADHD...like can't function at all without her medicine (we've tried many times).

Here are the following people in our family with ADHD:

My Dad
My Mother-in-Law
My husband
One of my paternal uncles
One of my sisters
Two of my female cousins on my Dad's side
My only male cousin on my Dad's side

These people range in age from 28 to 78. They also range in their ability to manage ADHD. Some medicate and some don't. But yeah, ADHD is hoax and everyone is overmedicated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son (16) doesn't have it. He does have Exec Functioning issues, though.

His sister (14) has serious ADHD...like can't function at all without her medicine (we've tried many times).

Here are the following people in our family with ADHD:

My Dad
My Mother-in-Law
My husband
One of my paternal uncles
One of my sisters
Two of my female cousins on my Dad's side
My only male cousin on my Dad's side

These people range in age from 28 to 78. They also range in their ability to manage ADHD. Some medicate and some don't. But yeah, ADHD is hoax and everyone is overmedicated.

Oh, and most of these people have never used an iPad!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son (16) doesn't have it. He does have Exec Functioning issues, though.

His sister (14) has serious ADHD...like can't function at all without her medicine (we've tried many times).

Here are the following people in our family with ADHD:

My Dad
My Mother-in-Law
My husband
One of my paternal uncles
One of my sisters
Two of my female cousins on my Dad's side
My only male cousin on my Dad's side

These people range in age from 28 to 78. They also range in their ability to manage ADHD. Some medicate and some don't. But yeah, ADHD is hoax and everyone is overmedicated.

Yes, they are. You are in hopeless denial. As long as you are comfortably drugged, what care do you have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son (16) doesn't have it. He does have Exec Functioning issues, though.

His sister (14) has serious ADHD...like can't function at all without her medicine (we've tried many times).

Here are the following people in our family with ADHD:

My Dad
My Mother-in-Law
My husband
One of my paternal uncles
One of my sisters
Two of my female cousins on my Dad's side
My only male cousin on my Dad's side

These people range in age from 28 to 78. They also range in their ability to manage ADHD. Some medicate and some don't. But yeah, ADHD is hoax and everyone is overmedicated.

Yes, they are. You are in hopeless denial. As long as you are comfortably drugged, what care do you have?

I'm NOT comfortably drugged. I've never had ADHD. I just have a lot of people in my immediate and extended family with ADHD. And, as I noted above, some medicate, some do not.

I don't think anyone but a psychiatrist should be able to diagnose and treat ADHD and I'm sure there are some people who have just been handed drugs by a physician with no battery of tests, etc. but that has not been our family's experience at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son (16) doesn't have it. He does have Exec Functioning issues, though.

His sister (14) has serious ADHD...like can't function at all without her medicine (we've tried many times).

Here are the following people in our family with ADHD:

My Dad
My Mother-in-Law
My husband
One of my paternal uncles
One of my sisters
Two of my female cousins on my Dad's side
My only male cousin on my Dad's side

These people range in age from 28 to 78. They also range in their ability to manage ADHD. Some medicate and some don't. But yeah, ADHD is hoax and everyone is overmedicated.

Yes, they are. You are in hopeless denial. As long as you are comfortably drugged, what care do you have?

I'm NOT comfortably drugged. I've never had ADHD. I just have a lot of people in my immediate and extended family with ADHD. And, as I noted above, some medicate, some do not.

I don't think anyone but a psychiatrist should be able to diagnose and treat ADHD and I'm sure there are some people who have just been handed drugs by a physician with no battery of tests, etc. but that has not been our family's experience at all.

You = plural you

[Anonymous]

My son doesn't have ADD or ADHD. He's one of only a few out of his friend group.

My niece has ADD and had to keep taking her meds through college. She tired to go off her first semester and her grades really suffered.

She's graduated now and is in a career that is creativity focused. As far as what my sister says, she only takes meds if she's working on a project and needs to concentrate to finish.

[Anonymous]

NP here.

I have two sons. The older son was diagnosed formally with ADHD at age 6, but in retrospect, he was always a bit "different" than other kids. Only one speed - always on HIGH. It seemed to us, as FTM, that he was a handful, but he was our benchmark so he was normal to us. My younger son does not have ADHD - he is 6.5 and has always seemed to be a "typical" child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son (16) doesn't have it. He does have Exec Functioning issues, though.

His sister (14) has serious ADHD...like can't function at all without her medicine (we've tried many times).

Here are the following people in our family with ADHD:

My Dad
My Mother-in-Law
My husband
One of my paternal uncles
One of my sisters
Two of my female cousins on my Dad's side
My only male cousin on my Dad's side

These people range in age from 28 to 78. They also range in their ability to manage ADHD. Some medicate and some don't. But yeah, ADHD is hoax and everyone is overmedicated.

Yes, they are. You are in hopeless denial. As long as you are comfortably drugged, what care do you have?

I grew up in an ADHD family like this. Nearly all of us have it. Imagine my surprise to find we were not just a little different but clinically disordered. Apparently we need drugs to conform to some arbitrary standard of the way the world runs.