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[quote=Anonymous]Parent of the TJ kid here.  We knew our kid likely had ADHD in early ES. And not because he was hyperactive— he really wasn’t. But impulse control issues. Homework always lost.  Getting easily upset and angry.  A lot of 2s in the citizenship grades on the report card, and a kid who often didn’t understand why he was in trouble.

I worried a lot about meds on a growing brain. Fortunately, he was in a small AAP classroom, and we were able to work with teachers to develop informal accommodations.  We kept it pulled together until middle school, when changing classes, multiple teachers, homework from all over the place did him in. And Ds and Fs showed up on his report card.  So, we went through several thousand dollars of educational testing. Got the formal diagnosis, and started the medication.

And it was night and day. He didn’t suddenly become an organized kid who remembered to turn homework in. That is where the EF tutor came in and he had to do the work. Meds didn’t put homework assignments in his planner, or sit down and get the homework done.  But he said he felt better.  Less like a motor was running inside himself.  And we were shocked.  He was less angry, less argumentative, and much less unhappy. He asked me why we had not treated him earlier becuase he felt so much better. And I felt like a terrible parent for putting him through years of feeling like something was wrong with him, when there was a solution.

TL;DR: don’t judge what you don’t know. [/quote]

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