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[quote=Anonymous]I have two kids.  DC1 was very hyperactive and defiant, diagnosed with ADHD hyperactive. DC1 never struggled academically, was quick to learn, and is categorically "bright".  DC1 has never been forgetful, absent-minded, or spacey.

DC 2 was not hyperactive or defiant at home, but remarkably absent-minded. DC2 is 8 and to me, seems to be slow to learn rules to a board game, or surprisingly bad an remembering things like the order of the months or how much various coins are worth. He learns them, but then forgets quickly. The beginning of the school year is always difficult because he seems to lose so much knowledge over the summer months. He had a full neuropsych evaluation and was diagnosed with ADHD combined (his teachers consider him hyperactive at school but we do not feel that he is at home, perhaps because in our eyes he was always less so than DC1).  I specifically asked at the evaluation about other learning deficits or challenges and they insisted he has none, and indicated that he performed well on all of the tests.  He reads well and seems okay at math.  His teachers do not seem worried about anything academically.  As his parent, though, I just feel that he seems to miss a lot, seems spacey, absent-minded, forgetful. I realize that is ADHD, but could it be something else, too? Or is it just because DC1 presents so differently that I am having trouble wrapping my head around this being just a variation in ADHD? I just wonder what else-- if anything-- I should be considering.[/quote]

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