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My young daughter as ADD/ADHD. It is no joke. ADD/ADHD is an executive function deficit, with tremendous negative impact on one's ability to regulate behavior,
by zarkov99 9y ago
My young daughter as ADD/ADHD. It is no joke. ADD/ADHD is an executive function deficit, with tremendous negative impact on one's ability to regulate behavior, resist distractions, plan and persist through a plan. You can imagine how devastating that can be as you age and more and more is expected of you in terms of self-management. Deep shame, anxiety and depression as a result are common. Medication helps, sometimes a lot, and the objections against it, to my knowledge, are not rooted in evidence.
- msla 9y agoThere are people who credit evidence, and people who believe in common sense, and while most of the the "common sense" people can eventually get enough shit kicked out of them by reality to learn to accept evidence, I'm half-convinced there's something deep going on here. Maybe it's cultural, maybe it's even deeper.