Adult ADHD: Childhood Diagnosis

Video Transcript

Whether or not a person with adult ADHD was diagnosed with ADD or ADHD as a child, generally people who have ADHD symptoms and issues as adults, also had them in childhood. Sometimes, childhood ADHD is overlooked due to other reasons, in the early eighties and during the Ritalin boom where Ritalin was used widely to treat ADHD and ADD in children, whether is was possibly there or not. Some parents didn't want their children on Ritalin or weren't ready to admit that their children may have a neurologically based disorder. For children with comorbid learning disabilities, dyslexia, or reading, other reading difficulties, dysgraphia, speech impediments, sometimes those problems over shadow ADD/ADHD and distract from treating the ADHD and what it may be contributing to those child's problems. Also, in children who are gifted and talented in terms of that phrase. Gifted children are perceived as just being bored with their normal classroom. Well, she, he or she doesn't do well because their bored, they don't pay attention cause their bored and that may, that may very well be part of the case, but ADHD may be playing a role in that child. ADHD are often, generally quite gifted. It's not uncommon to see somebody with an accelerated academic potential also have issues with ADHD.