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[quote=Anonymous]My dyslexic kid and my dyslexic self both have fine spacial reasoning and rock bottom working memory. I was dreamy and inattentive as a child, and my son was hyperactive and inattentive as a small child. We've had him assessed multiple times with psycho-educational testing (he is 16 and you re-do it every 3 years or so) and he's never met the criteria for ADHD. Mostly it's that when things are hard, discouraging, and intense you need a break, and so you daydream, space out, or wiggle. ADHD and dyslexia do "travel together," though - people with one are more likely to have the other than people without one of the disorders. And on this forum you'll find lots of people who say they were told their child had dyslexia, or at least reading disabilities, and those magically went away when the kid was treated for ADHD. So it's pretty hard to parse them out. The best way, as PPs have said, is to get a full evaluation so you know you are treating the right root cause.[/quote]
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