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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. Many posters seem to have the idea that medication and therapy/social skills groups will fix ADHD. They do not. They may help mitigate the worst symptoms, but the underlying condition is still there.

Kids with ADHD are often several years behind their peers socially, emotionally, and behaviorally. Many also lag behind on height/weight charts. People with ADHD may act annoying and immature, but people need to understand that it’s not intentional and have some patience. We need to teach our NT kids to be more tolerant. The kids with ADHD may catch up developmentally , but adolescence is an especially hard time for ADHD kids. [/quote]

I mean, sure, tell other people to teach their kids to be more tolerant, but you also need to be doing as much as you can to help your kid improve.  Because few people would want be friends with someone who repeatedly engages in annoying behavior and won't stop, regardless of the reason.  And tweens/teens are unlikely to become so patient and tolerant that they will choose to spend time with someone who won't stop calling them names.  This isn't asking them to be tolerant of a stutter or some other harmless behavior--it's asking them to tolerate being called names and other antagonistic behavior.  And those kids don't know WHY the other kid is being annoying and calling them names, they only know that the kid won't stop even when asked to repeatedly.  You can't expect their patience and tolerance to last forever.  [/quote]

PP with the 10 yr old with ASD/ADHD here.  No way will my kid tolerate this type of behavior from another kid...  and he doesn’t care why the other kid is behaving like a jerk.

Asking other kids to tolerate this type of annoying behavior due to someone’s diagnosis is ridiculous and will never work.[/quote]

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