Waking up for school in the morning has to be the hardest part of my day. They say waking up is hard to do. Have any of you noticed that it's that much harder to wake up for school when you're a kid with ADHD? I'm not a morning guy. Not sure why but getting up in the morning is SO hard. Mostly I hate it when my...
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Help me get my phone back guys! I just got in trouble again because I couldn't seem to "find" my bedroom... again. My room is messy pretty much all the time. I don't like it messy because then I can never find anything. My mom hates it when she can't even walk to the closet to put clothes away. (I appreciate that she does for...
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Are you still slogging through tests and homework up to the last day of school? Some of us are. Here's some inspiration for studying if you're slogging through right up to the Christmas break this year. 1. Take a Break! Okay, it's not quite the holidays and I don't mean it's a time to go play XBox (it will be soon, though!). But...
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"Aright so, I'm Jeff. I have ADHD. I can be really silly." Those are usually the first words I say when I'm with a new teacher or coach or whatever kind of adult I'm going to be working with. It's one of the advocacy strategies that's working for me. I let these guys know what to expect right up front. They might ask a...
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Even though ADHD medication can significantly help, it's not necessarily easy to get the right medication and get it to work smoothly for a kid. Here's how it happened for me. It took trying a few different ADHD meds and some scary fails before finding the best fit. Looking back, I realize we could have come up with a medication plan...
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Contributed by Andrew Lawrence Transparent Solutions Bio: Andrew Lawrence, a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE). Owner of Transparent Solutions in Burnaby British Columbia Link to his site: http://www.transparent.ca/ First off I should say that I never really thought of myself as somebody with ADHD. It wasn’t...
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When I was first diagnosed with ADHD, my doctor sat me down and told me something that has stuck with me and helped me realize how I can be productive with my time. He said, having ADHD doesn't make you have less attention than everyone else, it makes you have a LOT more attention. If you can learn to channel all that attention...
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