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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, well, my sister has ADD - she's 48 and while it was never diagnosed, when you read information about "the adult with ADD" it's like reading a descripter of my sister.  Her son was "active" "hyper" and "anxious" although they never had him tested, so he doesn't officially have any diagnosis.  And he's less of all those things now, in 6th grade, so perhaps they were right not to do that, although I didn't think so at the time.

But.  My sister loses her keys, can't help her kids get organized, she and her kids lose everything, laundry is all over the house (clean), getting out of the house with 2 (middle and high school kids, not babies) kids on time to drive to school is a disaster area because she can't organize herself to teach them to be organized, her executive functioning skills are very low, so god knows where her purse, keys, phone, and what she needs are at 7:30am, never mind if homework, lunch, blah blah is in kids backpacks and ready at 7:30am.

It's exhausting to watch.  And it slows her down in her business, because she's so disorganized.

Would it have been better for her if she could have been trained to be organized, to use lists, to use systems to put keys on hook by back door no matter what?  Heck, yes.  But given she got all A's excelled in school, etc nobody picked up on the ADD.  And now, at 48 years old, she's frankly resistant to trying to learn any techniques, partly because that sounds so overwhelming to learn.

I can't even.  I'm so naturally organized, I just can't be in her house without wanting to try to neaten up, make some rules about kids not just tossing stuff as they walk through the house when they get home, blah blah but it can't stick because she can't stick to it.  I love she's my sister, not my husband! [/quote]

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