Post by Rebelmom on Oct 30, 2003 15:41:35 GMT -5
I am lucky that my son's ADD symptoms aren't very disturbing to our Q or life, but they are a detrement to his education. On his evaluation, he scored above average and superior on all cognitive and intellegnce areas, but could never have done this without constant supervision and redirection to stay on the tasks of the tests. Still, his scores reflect a solid capable boy with strong skills he should be able to depend on for learning.
Without his meds, he thinks in a very associationally
and tangentially distorted way. His thoughts are highly intellegent and inventive but go NOWHERE! For him, keeping a stream of thought was like trying to sing one song while listening to 12 other songs at the same time. The disoganization in his head was overwhelming. Starting from his teachers words, when listening to a lesson, it was irresistable for him to begin thinking about his own thoughts and then his thoughts about his thoughts... and so on. Very quickly, he was "off and running" in the wrong direction and moving rapidly outward from there. He had fantastic ideas but could not stay thinking of them long enough to make use of them, without A LOT of external structuring.
Not long ago, I doubted the existance of ADD. But once I got a peak into his head I knew what a hopeless disablity this was going to be if I continued to deny it's existence. It is OK and normal to go through this denial, but not for long. It would be a tragedy to know these things about a child, and ignor it, to the detriment of his learning, his overall social skills and his emotional development.
Without his meds, he thinks in a very associationally
and tangentially distorted way. His thoughts are highly intellegent and inventive but go NOWHERE! For him, keeping a stream of thought was like trying to sing one song while listening to 12 other songs at the same time. The disoganization in his head was overwhelming. Starting from his teachers words, when listening to a lesson, it was irresistable for him to begin thinking about his own thoughts and then his thoughts about his thoughts... and so on. Very quickly, he was "off and running" in the wrong direction and moving rapidly outward from there. He had fantastic ideas but could not stay thinking of them long enough to make use of them, without A LOT of external structuring.
Not long ago, I doubted the existance of ADD. But once I got a peak into his head I knew what a hopeless disablity this was going to be if I continued to deny it's existence. It is OK and normal to go through this denial, but not for long. It would be a tragedy to know these things about a child, and ignor it, to the detriment of his learning, his overall social skills and his emotional development.