re: #86 MandyManners

Ironically, this is a longitudinal study for 7-8 year olds, which means one of my two children I would say is not affected is the one they want.

(Full disclosure: Of my six siblings, I and three others are ADD or ADHD, and so is my mother and other relatives.)

I’m pretty sure my brother-in-law, who would be aware of the family history (his wife was medicated as a child for ADHD), put us on the list, as he works for the hospital involved.

Of course, I’ve always been so surrounded by ADHD, I may not know what normal looks like. He could just be less ADHD than his older brothers. I’m used to kids who hang from the curtains and stand on the doorknobs.*

Thanks for the heads up on what the assessments might look like. Since we are homeschoolers, we’ve never tested for ADHD, but we get to do the rounds with speech assessments & by extension, autism assessments, because being slow-to-speak is a warning sign.

*Literally. Our curtains are break-away for this reason, and we have a door that sticks for this reason.