Inattentive ADHD in Children Video
Here’s a short interesting video on ADHD in Children at WebMD, found it from an email in one of my many ADHD e groups.
It shows the different types of ADHD inattentive and hyperactive impulsive and goes on to show the wide range of differences in people with ADHD. It’s definitely not a one size fit’s all condition. Many people with inattentive ADHD don’t get diagnosed since they’re not causing problems for other people, which seems to be the main reason for getting diagnosed for people with ADHD.
If you’re not bothering others who cares if you’re suffering internally or not functioning well seems to be the mainstream opinion in practice too often. So girls and women who are more likely to have inattentive ADHD (as well as a small percentage of boys and men) are more likely not to get diagnosed and treated for ADHD.
Hmm… It’s pretty likely that I had ADHD as a child, though it was more that I got in trouble for not paying attention on a regular basis. Luckily I was really smart and managed to do well in school despite of that. On the other hand, I did get hit by one particular teacher.
Comment by gillian January 26, 2007 @
Hi Gillian, what makes it even easier to miss getting diagnosed for ADHD, is if you’re gifted and ADHD.
see http://adultaddstrengths.com/2006/10/21/pete-on-panel-at-vancouver-giftedness-learning-challenges-conference-tomorrow/
http://adultaddstrengths.com/2005/08/15/mensa-add-special-interest-group-225-members/
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/adhd_and_gifted.html
http://ericec.org/digests/e522.html
I was on a panel at a local gifted conference here and before they asked me to research the differences between being gifted and having ADHD. after going through several articles I noticed that there is no difference other than being gifted=having adhd+ a high IQ, a love of learning and a strong talent in one or more areas.
Many people think if you have adhd you automatically don’t to well in school, which is not true, many adders have problems in school but some do very well. I have ADHD and made the deans honours list. There’s 400+members of Mensa in an ADHD special interest group.
so if you have inattentive ADHD, and you’re gifted you’re twice as likely to be missed on getting diagnosed for ADHD.
Comment by Pete Quily January 26, 2007 @