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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, this is great information and I appreciate you sharing it. Research does suggest that kids who are younger than their classmates do tend to be misdiagnosed with ADHD, so your observations and intuition may be right on:

[url]http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/08/17/129255572/a-second-thought-on-the-accuracy-of-adhd-diagnosis-in-kids[/url]

I wonder if this is particularly true in this area, where so many parents redshirt their kids. If a kid has a summer birthday and one or two redshirted kids in his class, I'm betting his behavior might look more ADHD-like to a teacher who is comparing him to peers who are considerably older.[/quote]

Can you just give it a rest?  OP already said she didn't want to discuss it.[/quote]

I beg your pardon? I think you missed her follow-up words, which were:

[quote]I want to answer your question on the ADHD but am sensitive to not setting off a disputation. Let's just say he has been diagnosed as ADHD by a well-known local education psychiatrist. [b]I reject the diagnosis and do not believe my child has a "disorder" of any kind and so have been seeking alternative means to address the behaviors I mentioned. We feel, in his case, that the main issue is immaturity (he is very young for his grade)[/b] that he is highly energetic and sometimes finds it hard to contain himself for hours on end in the classroom. I am not saying that ADHD does not exist or that other kids don't suffer from it. [url]

I was affirming the OP, as you would see if you thoroughly read her follow-up post I quoted here. I think it's useful to know that up to a million younger kids in their classrooms may be misdiagnosed, which the OP clearly believes is the case here. Sorry if that offends you but I frankly don't see why it should.[/quote]

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