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SO glad you posted .it always helps me to write out my feelings , wether on this site or just at home. I didnt like being a seventeen year old senior , cause all the good looking girls already had boyfriends that had cars. there are pros and cons to just about everything.  being embaressed or feeling ashamed doesnt stay so painful when your letting feelings out - often. especially around listeners who dont judge. glad you are here

 

thank you for the response, you know i feel like im lazy alot of the time....but personally im more that way when i smoke pot.  Which i know first off isn't good in the first place and that may be the key to do better in school. 

ill definately check out the book or well the website. thanx

i agree with the fact about telling someone that their lazy....because i think for almost everyone they'd believe it after a while. anyways i just wanted to say thankyou for responding. 

Unfortunately, many kids with ADHD (especially inattentive) are just told they are not trying hard enough or are lazy. You hear this or similar comment your whole life and you start to believe it, after all, how could these educated people be so wrong. Well - They are!

I sat in an annual meeting for my youngest daughter's IEP. The special ed teacher and psychologist went over the testing that was done and we discussed the previous goals and added some new ones. The only comment the teacher had was that my daughter is capable of doing the work, but just won't apply herself. I am so glad there were other professionals in the room dealing with this, because this teacher (and the one last year) felt that my daughter was just lazy. This just points out that many of the people that you would think really know students, really are not that knowlegable and they further are not aware how bad they hurt students by treating them like they are lazy.

Let's segue this to a book: "You mean I'm Not Lazy, Supid or Crazy?!"

http://addwarehouse.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/you-mean-im-n ot-lazy-stupid-or-crazy.html

thanx.  yeah but in general dont you find it hard to forgive yourself? i mean maybe this is just me, but i cant really forgive myself for those kinds of things.

im glad you didn't get held back in the second grade because i can tell you first hand it wasn't any fun.

haha well im glad your so fond of learning...it'll get ya places.

no problem.  post it again too.  I was to be held back in 2nd grade also but bossy parents got me thru.  i never got a poroper dx.  my case is mild enough that i've lslid thruh.  but if i had a choice, i'd get a proper dx adn learn learn learn all all i could about

forgive yourself every day.  you are not at fault.  you are not alone.

hank

hi its my first time here...i guess i just wanted to know what someone thought about this,

in the second grade i was held back, i dont know if it was due to adhd they never told me.  I was never a distruption in class i was always quiet but wild at home.  But over all i couldn't follow the material being taught.  Im 16 now and i hate the fact that i was held back.  I love how they tell you that you'll benifit from it. haha well maybe for some....but i hate my birthday because everyone always asks "why are you so old?"  and you know what i tell them.... a lie. aren't you supose to evaluate someone or something anything before holding them back

ive never been able to forgive myself for getting held back and having adhd....how am i supose to get over this? because basically what im doing isn't working...
oh. hmm i put this in the wrong place.....sry.

haha this really doesn't talk about books.