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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ So everyone on this board claiming their sons CANNOT CONTROL their impulses - what’s your plan for when your boys get to High School? College?

Are you going to keep blaming the teachers for trying to stop them from sexually harassing girls? What if the verbal abuse no longer gets the same reaction with the older kids and he decides he needs to up his game?

And even if you manage to shield him from all accountability with your ADHD diagnosis, what are you going to do when he’s 18????

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She was not trying to shield him from accountability, she didn't blame the teacher, and she literally asked for ideas of how to help.

Like another poster said, impulsivity is literally part of the definitional criteria for ADHD.

And YES -- exactly! the fear is that he will try to up the ante. These kids are walking risk factors. They are more likely to get in car accidents. They are more likely to become addicted to drugs. They are more likely to suffer from major depression and their impulsivity makes them exactly the kids most likely to attempt suicide -- and succeed.

I am so surprised to see so many posters in this forum in denial that many individuals actually have limited capacity to control their impulses. It's like yelling at fat people to stop eating so much. Gee, ya think? The problem with the will-power approach is that it's just pitting two parts of a person's brain against one another. Guess what. The brain always wins.

That's why meds and CBT are the best route: they seek to change the brain's feedback system. Nothing else works. [/quote]

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