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[quote=Anonymous]Quick backstory.

I think I'm a pretty successful person with ADHD. I've never been officially diagnosed but going back as far as second grade teachers knew something was different. But it was never really to help me, moreso as a reason why I was always in the trouble I was in.

So fast forward about 20 or 30 years and now I've got a son who acts almost identical to how I did back then, and questions about how to proceed.

Enter my wife into the picture. She sees me today and the quirks that make me me, but doesn't really understand why I do things that way. I tell her sometimes but never the full story because I'm not sure I fully understand other than it works.

But being that my son has a lot of the same traits as me, I've been helping him use some of the same things that helped me, and so far they've worked pretty well.  But since areas they haven't (like his social anxiety).

So DW and I are talking about this off and on and different ways to approach it. In more passive because I'm confident we can find ways to help him. Partially because I faced and continue to face some of these very same issues.

But I fear I'm blinding myself because my son is not me. Should I be more focused on things like therapy, or my own out of the box solutions? For example one of the ways in trying to help him deal with anxiety is by running. Both in a personal thing, to help him calm down and in a social thing where he races kids his age at the playground. It's helped him make "friends" in a limited sense. They race, exchange names and then go on with their day after a few races but at least he's interacting with them right? But that won't work in a classroom so I'm back to brainstorming that one.

I just worry that in not worried enough about this, if that makes sense. [/quote]

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