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[quote=Anonymous]I would get him help.  He's a different person than you and may have different challenges.  And you say you're "pretty successful", but is that the goal here?  Consider aiming a little higher.  It seems like you know the running races thing is not a real solution, for example.

Sometimes people with ADHD (especially men with wives, girlfriends, or assistants at work) don't realize the extent to which the people around them are accommodating or compensating for their ADHD.  Your wife may be doing more support or tolerating more of your quirks than you realize.  You, yourself, might not be managing as well as you think, it's more like the two of you together are managing.  Question whether you want that for your son, should he be lucky enough to find a partner who wants to live that way.

Sometimes people with ADHD can do pretty well for the first few decades of life, but then in middle adulthood as the demands at work and home with multiple kids and aging parents become more complex, and the person starts to get older and less flexible and energetic, they start to struggle and things fall apart.  There are so many posts on here from fed-up partners who didn't realize the toll their partner's ADHD would take on them in the long term.[/quote]

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