Anonymous
Post 09/17/2017 12:30     Subject: did your child age out of ADHD?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DH 51, DD sophomore in college. Nope for both of them.


63 year old DH with ADD. Obviously not diagnosed in childhood. He became an interpreter later in life and the first time he interpreted at an IEP meeting for a boy with ADHD he came home like "they could have been talking about me"


DH tried to get a diagnosis 15 years ago and got brushed off by a pcp. Saw a psychiatrist 2 years ago. He is medicated now. Finally.


Oh and my stepdad is 82. Still no.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2017 12:28     Subject: did your child age out of ADHD?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DH 51, DD sophomore in college. Nope for both of them.


63 year old DH with ADD. Obviously not diagnosed in childhood. He became an interpreter later in life and the first time he interpreted at an IEP meeting for a boy with ADHD he came home like "they could have been talking about me"


DH tried to get a diagnosis 15 years ago and got brushed off by a pcp. Saw a psychiatrist 2 years ago. He is medicated now. Finally.
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2017 12:18     Subject: did your child age out of ADHD?
Anonymous wrote:DH 51, DD sophomore in college. Nope for both of them.


63 year old DH with ADD. Obviously not diagnosed in childhood. He became an interpreter later in life and the first time he interpreted at an IEP meeting for a boy with ADHD he came home like "they could have been talking about me"
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2017 10:31     Subject: did your child age out of ADHD?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just wondering if anyone had the experience of a child's ADHD more or less going away as they age. I know this can happen in theory, but am interested in hearing real stories. How old was your child when you or they noticed the symptoms were abating? Thanks.


It doesn't happen in theory. It happens in misdiagnosis.


Not necessarily. Read this.

https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/recovery-from-childhood-adhd-may-depend-on-the-pattern-of-brain-development
Anonymous
Post 09/17/2017 10:24     Subject: did your child age out of ADHD?
DH 51, DD sophomore in college. Nope for both of them.