- Girls with ADHD:
- lag in maturation (I always did better with kids that were younger than I, although my mom thought as a result that I was more mature than my peers)
- have trouble applying learning to new situations (they'll learn in one situation but not apply it to a different one, even when the underlying problem is the same)
- have trouble being self-aware
- have trouble dealing with several stimuli at once
- have trouble with change or transitions
- have a need for structure to overcome a lack of self-motivation and overcome inertia
- tend to react badly if 1) there is too much stimulation in their environment or 2) not enough
- many have a hyper-sensitive central nervous system, affecting such senses as touch, hearing, taste, and vision.
- may have coordination difficulties
- may have obsessional behaviours
- may have bladder issues into the teens--I once lost control during a 7th grade vocabulary test and nearly fell through the floor in shame
- experience an abundance of shame
- may have psychological distress
- may be emotionally needy
- may eat to calm themselves
- may have disturbed sleep
- may have a need for extended wind-down time before sleep
- may have trouble with social skills and missing social cues
- have trouble belonging, seeking out younger children or much older people rather than peers during school-age interactions
- have trouble planning and following-through
- have trouble prioritising and sequencing
- have trouble with their memory, particularly with accessing and retrieving stored information, assuming it got stored in the first place
- may have trouble writing and listening at the same time--in the game this is also a trouble because of having to interact whilst writing
There were more issues discussed, but those were the ones I found applicable to me.
Now the problem is, how do you overcome those things? The book seems to have some good suggestions. I may check it out after I get it on the shelf.
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