Could this be adhd? ( girls)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here: what should my next step be?

Educational testing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does her room look like? I have ADD and the first and biggest sign when I was a kid was that my room always looked like a bomb went off in it. I couldn't organize my thoughts enough to straighten it or clean it. I was fine academically until 7th grade.

If that was accurate it would be in the criteria.

My room was neat but my first adhd memory was in preschool. Easter project we were to color an egg shaped piece of paper that was split into a top and bottom shell. Glue a paper chick to the back of the bottom shell and then attach the top and bottom shells with a push grommet. I spent the entire time meticulously coloring the shell. When my mom arrived to pick me up I quickly added the push grommet and proudly held the paper egg up and proceeded to open it. There was no chick because I forgot that step. I wailed in disappointment because it was ruined and didn't understand how I could have forgotten. My reaction was over the top emotional dysregulation for what should have been a mild disappointment , ontop of failure to regulate my attention on the whole project instead of one part of the project. But .my room was neat most of the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does her room look like? I have ADD and the first and biggest sign when I was a kid was that my room always looked like a bomb went off in it. I couldn't organize my thoughts enough to straighten it or clean it. I was fine academically until 7th grade.

If that was accurate it would be in the criteria.

My room was neat but my first adhd memory was in preschool. Easter project we were to color an egg shaped piece of paper that was split into a top and bottom shell. Glue a paper chick to the back of the bottom shell and then attach the top and bottom shells with a push grommet. I spent the entire time meticulously coloring the shell. When my mom arrived to pick me up I quickly added the push grommet and proudly held the paper egg up and proceeded to open it. There was no chick because I forgot that step. I wailed in disappointment because it was ruined and didn't understand how I could have forgotten. My reaction was over the top emotional dysregulation for what should have been a mild disappointment , ontop of failure to regulate my attention on the whole project instead of one part of the project. But .my room was neat most of the time.

Sorry. You are totally right, and I am wrong. The criteria involves failing to remember to put the chick in the Easter egg, and then "wailing." Wait, no it doesn't.

OP: Messy cluttered spaces and an inability to organize them is very common with ADD. You can Google it. At any rate, agree with PPs that you should get your DC evaluated, and then from there learn how to best support them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does her room look like? I have ADD and the first and biggest sign when I was a kid was that my room always looked like a bomb went off in it. I couldn't organize my thoughts enough to straighten it or clean it. I was fine academically until 7th grade.

If that was accurate it would be in the criteria.

My room was neat but my first adhd memory was in preschool. Easter project we were to color an egg shaped piece of paper that was split into a top and bottom shell. Glue a paper chick to the back of the bottom shell and then attach the top and bottom shells with a push grommet. I spent the entire time meticulously coloring the shell. When my mom arrived to pick me up I quickly added the push grommet and proudly held the paper egg up and proceeded to open it. There was no chick because I forgot that step. I wailed in disappointment because it was ruined and didn't understand how I could have forgotten. My reaction was over the top emotional dysregulation for what should have been a mild disappointment , ontop of failure to regulate my attention on the whole project instead of one part of the project. But .my room was neat most of the time.

Sorry. You are totally right, and I am wrong. The criteria involves failing to remember to put the chick in the Easter egg, and then "wailing." Wait, no it doesn't.

OP: Messy cluttered spaces and an inability to organize them is very common with ADD. You can Google it. At any rate, agree with PPs that you should get your DC evaluated, and then from there learn how to best support them.

Life's rough when you constantly feel attacked and take everything personally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where do I go for a neuropsych eval? We are in eastern moco so ideally silver spring or Columbia area.

We were very pleased with Dr Lorrie Ness in downtown Silver Spring.

[Anonymous]

Get the full neuro psych done if you can. ADHD often travels with other learning issues and to deal with them you need to know they are there. Elizabeth Cutner is in MoCo and is great!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where do I go for a neuropsych eval? We are in eastern moco so ideally silver spring or Columbia area.

We were very pleased with Dr Lorrie Ness in downtown Silver Spring.

Another vote for her. Short time to get on schedule and less pricey than other options but great experience. Prickly kid liked her, too.