ADHD: My personal experience!<\/p>\n
At the outset\u00a0 and as mentioned in my previous posts<\/a>, I\u2019d like to make clear that I am not a doctor nor do I profess to be qualified in identifying any sort of medical conditions.\u00a0 What I can say is that I am a mother who would do anything to the ends of the earth for her children and their well-being.\u00a0 So in my relentless pursuit to debunk this ADHD theory I have been there and back and have reached what I believe are some significant conclusions.\u00a0 (Please note once again that these are my personal findings and experiences and I am sharing them to anyone who wants to take the time and effort to make sense of things)<\/p>\n As my son began his grade 4 year I was riddled with stress about how he would cope.\u00a0 It\u2019s no secret that he struggles to sit still and concentrate and now that school was getting serious, what would we do?\u00a0 Mind you, he actually coped very well.\u00a0 He had the most loving and understanding class teacher as well as great subject teachers.\u00a0 He finished the term with surprisingly good results.<\/p>\n But all this while, we were looking for an alternative school for him.\u00a0 And in doing so, a few of the schools required that he complete an educational assessment.\u00a0 And here\u2019s where my mind was changed about ADHD completely.<\/p>\n His scores show that he is an above average child with a high IQ \u2013 which then led me to ask the question:\u00a0 does he take in more information that makes him above average and does this then impact on how he reacts to the world?<\/p>\n Because to me this makes sense (in the context of many other things I\u2019ve come across along the way).<\/p>\n So is it at all possible that he is a highly intelligent child that is highly sensitive to his environment?\u00a0 Can it be that certain people don\u2019t know how to deal with a child like him or they lack the patience? (Because it takes nerves of steel to deal with him sometimes) Dare I say it, are we possibly too busy in our lives to take the time to understand these kids better? Is it not true that ADHD medication<\/a> alters your mind and thinking?\u00a0 Why then would I as a parent want to suppress my child\u2019s intelligence and abilities by giving him medication? Because I want him to be like all the other average kids?<\/p>\n Sure the behavioural challenges are there, but does it justify putting my child on medication for epilepsy to calm him down when he is not epileptic?!\u00a0 Why is this so easily prescribed to a 7 year old child? My concern is simple: is medication the first and best solution?<\/p>\n This article was originally written for Jozikids by Fatima Kazee in 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n Note: If you enjoyed this article, and would like to stay updated with more, you can:<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Is it at all possible that a child is not ADHD but rather highly sensitive? What we as human beings take into our brain is usually regulated, could “ADHD” kids just lack this regulation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":351336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adhd","category-special-needs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jozikids.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ADHD: super sensitive because of super intelligence?<\/h2>\n
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Is medication the solution?<\/h3>\n
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