ADHD Or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

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ADHD or Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder has been for many years a subject of controversy and misinformation. A lot of people look at it as a “fake” disorder making accusations that it’s just a way for parents to make an excuse for their children’s unruly behavior or bad grades. Or as a way for adolescent teens and young adults to acquire Strong stimulant drugs to help them perform better in their jobs or in school. But for the Millions of people worldwide living life every day with ADHD it’s a completely different story. For them the meds aren’t a way to just get a cheap high or try and gain a little edge on some competition at work or school, for them it’s just how they keep up with everyday life.
In truth ADHD along with ADD are
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I used to be skeptical about it myself, I thought it was just lazy parenting and a lack of or inconsistency in rules in the home life that contributed to a child’s lack of focus extremely annoying random outbursts and hyperactivity. That was until I met my fiancée Amanda, a very successful 36 year old woman with a Master’s degree in ED leadership. She was my inspiration for this research paper and also my subject of observation during this research because despite all she has accomplished in her life she still lives with the adult form of ADD. She’s able to manage it with the help of medication and as long as she stays on them she appears as normal as anybody. But the minute she goes off them she’s the most flighty emotionally off the wall person you’ll meet, not in the since of hyperactivity but in her thought process. As she describes it normal people think in terms of 12345678 and so on, a person with ADD or ADHD thinks 17463852. Even though she has the same numbers or tasks as I do they are not always processed in the same order. But she has taught me two things. One being that ADHD and ADD are real disorders not just in children but in all stages of life and two being that it’s a disorder that needs to be recognized more within society so we can get more understanding about the people who have to live with it every

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