Talking About ADHD
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Bring This Article to Your Next Family Gathering

Do you field unsolicited advice from judgmental family members and friends who don't understand ADHD? Are you worn down by hearing that ADHD is a character flaw and that stricter discipline will solve your child’s difficult behaviors? The criticism is not only exhausting, it is unhealthy and demoralizing. Here is how to respond with science.

2 Comments: Bring This Article to Your Next Family Gathering

  1. If, like you say, a better name for ADHD would be “executive function developmental delay”, what should be made of adult ADHD, passed the 29 year old mark of frontal lobe being done growing? Is it not ADHD after that?

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