is this ADHD or his age? | ADHD Information

He called his skateboarding coach an idiot this am.  He put his little brothers name in for him on his nintendo and wrote ( sh-t ).  He says crap all the time and calls his friends gay ( he doesnt know what it means).  I have told him that he is a potty mouth and it will not be tolerated.  Is this an adhd thing or an im almost 9 thing?

I have 2 boys - 13 (ADHD) and 10 (not ADHD or anything) and neither of them talked like that at that age or now.  I am wondering - could it be that your DS is hearing that kind of talk around him a lot (school, friends)?  Do his peers talk that way?  We moved 2 years ago and that type of talk is much more prevelant here than where we used to live.  Not sure why.  I bet he is picking this type of talk up from his peers and possibly his ADHD is contributing to his over use or impulsvive use of it.

Good luck!

Yeah, neither of my kids has gone through this stage, so from my point of view it is not an age or an ADHD thing. (Although, like Greyhoundmom said, ADHD could contribute to impulsive use of bad words.) I also agree with Greyhoundmom that he is hearing these words somewhere and maybe thinking that he is "cool" and gets attention by using them. Also I wonder if he is experiencing stress or something else negative in his life that is causing him to act out in this way?
It sounds like something that a "marble system" type program might work well for. If he were to simply lose a marble (or whatever token) when he used inappropriate words, without a making a big deal, and with lots of positives for other things, I bet the bad words would disappear pretty fast.
Also, if it were me, I would tell him that he is NOT a potty mouth and that WE don't talk that way in our family.
My son hears all that at school but we have always taught him to not use those words in public and that they are unaaceptable at home as well. He is pretty good @ 10 years old.