ADHD Myths & Facts
ADHD Is Not Fake
This ADHD Awareness Month, ADDitude has a zero tolerance policy toward lies and generalizations. Click on each truth below to learn more about ADHD, and check back each day in October for more.
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If its not fake it also isnt a lack of apprpropriate sleep. Why difd you publish that article. Without saying it implies that we can be « cured » crap
In response to Truth #11:
I am reluctant to label folks with ADHD as having a “serious health problem.” Perhaps it is “normal” people who have a “serious lack of tolerance” for those who simply think differently. We ADHDers take medication, endure therapy, etc. trying to adapt to all the conventional,static, societal systems created by average minds to serve efficiency, not human’s. I would never tell my 9yr old son that he is seriously ill just because he approaches life differently than the majority. What possible good would that do?
Question. I have hashimotto’s and 1 year and 8 months ago had a bifrontal huge meningioma taken from my brain. I have 5 kids and all of them have ADHD, ADD, ODD, LEARNING DISABILITY, the list goes on… BUT I HAVE NOTICED , AFTER MY CRANIOTOMY THAT I MAY ALSO HAVE IT , BECAUSE I SEE MY KIDS AND MY KIDS SAY I’M DOING THE SAME THING AS THEY DO.. IS IT POSSIBLE?
Brain injuries can cause ADHD-like symptoms, especially executive functioning deficits.
Penny
ADDitude Community Moderator, Parenting ADHD Trainer & Author, Mom to teen w/ ADHD, LDs, and autism