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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is having similar issue. We are getting him screened for ADHD- inattentive. [/quote]

At this age it's the course load or the school.  Seriously you're just looking for drugs to solve the problem.  [/quote]

Not necessarily. I have SEVERE ADD - Inattentive.  I was regularly up until the middle of the night with HS course work. My senior year I took 5 different AP subjects and got 5's on them all (so it wasn't an intelligence issue) but I had terrible focus. I was not diagnosed until I was almost done with college, when one of my friends pointed out that while I understood material, I clearly jumped around topics as I spoke, zoned out, and otherwise regularly demonstrated a lack of focus. It was not regularly apparent before because everyone just assumed that I was distracted because I understood the material and was bored in HS. I just compensated through school with a high IQ, but I would have really excelled if people had realized that I had ADD earlier.[/quote]

Same story for me, except it never occurred to me that I might have ADHD until my kids were diagnosed. I went to rigorous privates and a top college and did hours and hours of homework every night, by which I mean I spent a little time actually executing and the rest of the time day dreaming. My life was easier the more it was organized by outside factors like sports and classes with a ton of nightly homework. I was very compliant so if I had to do something, i did it. But long term-projects, even writing assignments, total lack of focus, stress, always catching up.

To the parents of kids like that, I do wish someone had picked up on this and helped me out. I managed to get good grades, do well in college and even get advanced degrees. The fact that I wasted sooooo much time in the process isn't even what bothers me now (though in all honestly, I spent much more time day dreaming than studying). It's that life after college is really unstructured and really hard and I didn't have the skills to cope. Basically, I was "fine" (slow and very anxious) relying on my smarts until I lost the structure that school provides. It is very hard for me to juggle normal life.[/quote]

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