When starting school, younger children are more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD

Re:When starting school, younger children are more likely to... by jonhendry18 on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:45PM (#18566495)

" Many of the same kids would be just fine if their day consisted primarily of free play, especially outdoors."

Not if they have ADHD. Then they often can't focus on things they want to focus on for their own reasons.

A lot of things that people with ADHD would like to do include boring parts if you want to get good at them. Practicing scales three hours a day, or whatever.

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Re:When starting school, younger children are more likely to... by saulrh on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:00AM (#18567506)

> Then they often can't focus on things they want to focus on for their own reasons.

Ding ding ding, winner. You know what sucks? Not being physically capable of paying enough attention to a piece of paperwork to be sure you've read all the instructions right and spelled everything perfectly and copied over every number with no transcription errors. Even when you desperately want to be able to focus that hard on anything in your life. Now take that and apply it to programming, watching TV, finishing video games so you get the whole story, remembering your SO's favorite things... Yeah.

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