Categories: Parents

Don’t Shoot Mom, It’s Just ADHD

Really.. are we resorting to this?

Please tell me this is a bad joke. I keep seeing blogs about the FDA approving a tranquilizer gun to calm kids with ADHD. WTF??

It’s bad enough kids with ADHD kids get spanked and punished way more than other kids, now we are going to get shot at a distance by our well meaning parents when we are out of control. Put us to sleep so you don’t have to deal with us!

Even if this is a joke it’s not funny. When is the world going to start learning about ADHD and step up to help us instead of hurt us.

Here are some things you can do when your kid with ADHD is out of control – from a kid with ADHD:

1- Remove the pressure. Stop yelling, giving commands, or demands. Take it back a step so everyone can calm down.

2 – Listen and learn. We are most often frustrated because we are not heard and something is wrong and we need to fix it. We might be hungry, or someone is bullying us and we don’t want to say. Take a long minute to be quiet and listen.

3- Do something physical with us like running around the block, playing tag or some other fun sport. We need to blow off steam in a good way, not by freaking out.

One things for sure not to do it shoot us with a tranquilizer gun! Does anyone know if this is real or not?

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Jeff Rasmussen

[content-block title="Meet Jeff Rasmussen" color="orange"] Age: 18 City: Langley, BC Diagnosed with ADHD in Grade 7 Biggest Dream: I want to change the world for younger kids like me who are punished daily for having ADHD. Fave Class: Mechanics "I've got the plans in my head for a motorized scooter with a gas-powered engine that I'm actually capable of building." ADHD Superpower: "If I'm determined to do something, literally nothing can stop me. Nothing. Not bribes, not bullets... nothing." Fave Food: Hashbrowns (the kind you buy frozen, in a bag) Career Goals: Telecommunications Guru Life-Changing Event: Winning the WDS Scholarship for Real Life School Achievement: Completing Math & Socials 10 in just 8 weeks this summer. "School's like 99% fluff. Summer school is that, minus the fluff." Biggest Struggle: Even though I take medication I still have trouble staying on task, doing boring homework, remembering not to swear when I am angry or staying still through assemblies. (That's where some of my strategies come in.) [/content-block] [content-block title="An Average Kid with ADHD" color="purple"] My ADHD has been really bad and given me every bad experience you can imagine for a kid. Before medication teachers took away my recess, my gym classes, they put me in the hall, I have been suspended from school, and I never did my work because even though my tests say I’m “gifted” I couldn’t do it. When I first learned I had ADHD I was so happy that I wasn’t bad or broken, it had a name and an explanation for what was going on. [/content-block]