Lack of maturity?

Homeschooler14
Mon, 27 Jan 2020 04:19:27 +0000

I agree with @Lindagaf, the behavior you described is not at all acceptable. All of the behavior you described is not normal and needs to be addressed.

ADHD is an excuse, and it may not even be a real disorder, at the least it is heavily overdiagnosed.

So lets dive into the facts on ADHD

Did you know that for people under 18, more drugs are prescribed for ADHD than all other prescriptions combined. That includes ALL prescriptions!!

From the CDC:

“3 million children ages 12-17 have been diagnosed with ADHD”

There are roughly 25,000,000 people age 12-17 in the U.S.

12% of people 12-17 have been diagnosed with adhd, and that number rises every year.

Now, for people over 18, only 4% have been diagnosed with adhd.
Usually, the precent-of-diagnosed of a chronic disease sharply increases with age, as there is obviously more time.

That means teens have triple the rate of ADHD than people above 18.

The truth is that ADHD is all or mostly made up, it’s just an excuse that the prescription drug companies are profiting off of. They are screwing American children and parents, and it is unfortunate. They want you to think that something is wrong with teens’ brains; the media spews this conspiracy theory every day. What comes to mind when you hear the word “teenager”? I have a feeling it is someone who is lazy, dumb, disrespectful, naive, and moody. But teens aren’t naturally like that; they have just become that way because of the toxic culture surrounding them. There is nothing naturally wrong with teens or their brains, but our toxic culture has produced something horrible; Adolescence, and it gets worse every day.

You have all been lied to, I’ve seen some lies already in this thread. Teens are perfectly fine; their brains function properly; they do not have some problem. You all probably think that teenagers are still little children that need to be treated like children. You couldn’t be any further from the truth. Teenagers are physically and mentally equipped to be fully-functioning adults once they are mostly through puberty. Humans are designed to become adults at puberty; this is the way it worked for thousands of years. If teens weren’t able to function as adults, none of us would be here today because the human species would have died off.

In over 100 cultures today, there is no adolescence; children transition straight into adulthood. There isn’t even a word for adolescence. There is no “teen turmoil” that you see in the west in these cultures. This is the way it should be.

Three main systems caused this unnecessary stage in our life, Child Labor laws, Compulsory Education, and the Juvenile justice system. All 3 are broken systems that have ruined the child-adult continuum.

There is also a theory that the brain isn’t developed until age 25. But this is misleading. If someone has to make many executive decisions at a young age, their prefrontal cortex (executive functioning center) will be developed at a young age. If someone doesn’t use this portion of their brain, it will take longer to develop. It’s like learning math. If someone practices math intensively everyday, they will gain math skills earlier than someone who does not practice math everyday. Just because the average person may develop algebra skills at 13, it is dependent on when and how much they practice algebra. The brain works the same, if someone makes executive functioning decisions everyday, their executive functioning will develop earlier. A 16 year old could have a fully functioning prefrontal cortex and a 30 year old could have an underdeveloped one. Its is not based in age.

For more info on this topic, read Teen 2.0 by Dr. Robert Epstein. Dr. Epstein is an expert in psychology and developmental stages of life and got his PHD at Harvard.

I hope you find a solution with your son. Read the book, it may help you and your son out tremendously. Dr. Epstein talks about how to correct this type of behavior.