Raising awareness of all things ADHD!
ADHD is not bad parenting, but there are certain types of parenting that benefit our condition.
Any parent knows that disciplining your child for inappropriate behaviour is a double-edged sword! You have stern words with your child? Instant guilt! You take something away from them? Instant guilt! You stop then doing something they enjoy? Instant guilt! Nobody said being a parent was an easy business and those who do say it have clearly never been parents. So yes, parenting alone is […]
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Well, I’m back from my holidays, well rested and raring to go. I even did some writing while sunning myself on the beach, but more on that in next week’s blog article. This week’s is all about the toll that masking can take on a parent. The other day I met with a friend for coffee, and she mentioned how rundown she’d become, she even […]
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So ADHDers after this week’s blog article I’ll be taking a well deserve three weeks rest while holidaying with my family in Walt Disney world. Yes, yes, I know your disappointed, but after the past few weeks I desperately need this holiday. Let me tell you why to a certain degree… As many of you know, I’m not just a blogger of ADHD, I’m also […]
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Hi, I’m back fellow ADHDers and watch out because I have a lot to say. Firstly, I’m pleased to report that the personal family situation that I’ve been dealing with is now looking extremely positive, which means regular service should resume from here on out. In today’s blog article I want to talk about kids! Whether you have them or you don’t there is really […]
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I’ve always been a person who strongly values peoples right to be individuals with their own strengths and their own journeys, but parenting is a whole different kettle of fish. As parents, we always feel like our children are a reflection of how we’ve raised them or what we’ve done. For example, if they start playing up or running around the supermarket, we feel people are […]
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It has recently come to my attention that trying to get a child referred for an ADHD diagnosis differs greatly in the UK, depending on which area you live in. This little fact came up when I was talking with a foster parent who is trying to seek a diagnosis. Her child goes to school in a different local authority than the one they are […]
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A little while ago, I met with the parent of a child who has recently been diagnosed with ADHD. For them it has been a long journey to confirm what she had long suspected, that her child struggles in a classroom environment and also at home because he has ADHD.The treatment prescribed was medication but here is the thing she told me that I found […]
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Anyone who has ever seen or heard of the film mean girls has probably heard of the term verbal diarrhoea. It basically means that whatever is in your mind comes out of your mouth without having a chance to filter it. Most people suffer from it at some point every now and again, because of nerves, drunkenness or just due to forgetfulness, but for people […]
Read moreWhen I was younger, my parents had to fight tooth and nail against such remarks that I was just ‘a naughty child’ or they were ‘bad parents’. Very little was known about ADHD back then, it was 1993 after all, but the hostility against the difference instead of the support, was fairly evident. I can only imagine how difficult it was very my parents knowing […]
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You wouldn’t believe how many people still seem to think that ADHD is just a term for bad parenting, that it doesn’t exist. I’m sorry, but until you have it and have to put up with having an ADHD brain on a regular basis then you don’t really get to have that opinion. There are brilliant doctors, scientists and academic who state that there is […]
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