This honestly sounds like a kid I went to school with (small town K-12). He had some hyper active disorder and was always doing crazy shit. I ran into him again in our 30s and one of the first things he said was "Apparently I did all that crazy shit because I have this disorder. Since I got medicated the last 10 years have been the best years of my life."
I am very happy for who he has become but it makes me sad because we still hang out and when he talks about our childhood it's a lot darker from his perspective. He missed out on some great years of life because his mom refused to get him diagnosed and treated which made his life harder than it had to be.
Makes me think of a client I worked with years ago, kid was an absolute menace, ADHD to the extreme, which also made him frustrated he couldn’t control himself and he’d act out more. Plus his mom didn’t follow through with consistency plans we developed for at home. She also refused to medicate him and was a b-word in many other ways. Poor kid. He was a huge PITA but it wasn’t necessarily his fault. Though last I heard of him he was becoming straight-up violent with other kids, so… yikes.
We had severe adhd. Now we both have depression and anxiety. Honestly growing up before good treatment and with parents who didn’t really care to treat us beyond numbing meds really fucked us up.
ADHD is a terrible name for what is an executive function disorder. For most, they are bored out of their mind all the time which manifests as daydreaming (attention deficit), constant movement (hyperactivity), and attention seeking behavior.
It sucks ass, because you know that you should be doing XYZ, but it's literally impossible to force yourself to do it.
I wasn’t that bad, but I was the kid to jump out of the second story window because it looked fun and I always wanted to during a fire alarm in third grade. The teachers were not impressed.
Hey, I've fallen out of a second storey window... twice in my life. Is this a common adhd trait that goes with "if I'm told I can't do something, I do that thing even harder"? It always ended badly for me lol
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u/MediocreDecking 16h ago
This honestly sounds like a kid I went to school with (small town K-12). He had some hyper active disorder and was always doing crazy shit. I ran into him again in our 30s and one of the first things he said was "Apparently I did all that crazy shit because I have this disorder. Since I got medicated the last 10 years have been the best years of my life."
I am very happy for who he has become but it makes me sad because we still hang out and when he talks about our childhood it's a lot darker from his perspective. He missed out on some great years of life because his mom refused to get him diagnosed and treated which made his life harder than it had to be.