Advice RE: ADHD son with serious struggles

missypie
Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:32:38 +0000

Many hugs to you. There is so much work the educational system needs to do with respect to educating ADD/Aspergers/Executive Function Disorder boys. I think that so much of the HS and college drop our rate is because of that group of guys. I think the low wage jobs are full of them.

When I was a special ed major in college decades ago, there was a major called “Learning Disabled/Behavior Disordered (LD/BD)”… treating learning differences as the same thing as a behavior disorder, because the LD kids became so frustrated in traditional school that many became BD.

Just know that ADHD is real, anxiety issues are real…their brains are different.

The only advice I can give you is to try to find something (besides video games or skateboarding) that he is good at. My 22 year old helps out in little kid Sunday School and the kids adore him. Could your son volunteer at an animal shelter or something similar?