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Interesting...
My younger brother is like this, but in his case he doesn't have ANY other symptoms of ADD so I think his problem is just being a 16-year-old boy with major dominance issues.
I've noticed that occasionally I take conversations too seriously, which leads to me competing with everyone else and trying to "win the debate." Of course, I'd get upset if I felt I "lost" or if someone yelled at me for dominating the conversation.
Maybe this is what is going on with your son? You might want to ask him WHY he has to have the last word, or work with a counselor on it. One of the symptoms of AD/HD is misinterpreting social cues, so it could be that your son is confusing a normal conversation or a light-hearted debate with a real intense debate. If he's getting those signals confused, then he's convinced that he's reacting the way he should be and is rightfully upset when someone chastises him for it.
The key thing here, of course, is that he THINKS he's reacting the right way when he really isn't.
I also have a male friend who isn't diagnosed with AD/HD, but certainly has the symptoms of it. He's a bit of a knowledge junkie who will talk over others and dominate the conversation with a topic of his own choosing, and he doesn't react very well when he's told to "play nice and give others a turn." I've been at the recieving end of his need to always be right too; I'll be talking about a story I'm writing and he'll jump in trying to explain why "that wouldn't work," completely missing the point of "It's just a STORY!!!"
Then he walks off in a huff when my sister (his girlfriend) and I give him the Death Glare for taking a work of FICTION too seriously.
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