[ Music] I took drug when I was a kid everyone said I would outgrow it so I stopped taking the medication in college everything is so hard now I detest math it’s so accepting I know I’m bad at it even though my teacher says I’m not I’m a downfall I can’t remember to do homework and lose things I kick it I detest feeling like I’m different but I certainly am operate seems like it’s easy for everyone else these are the utters of the persons with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD millions of American children teens and adults knowledge this disease which utters it hard to concentrate pay attention organize and focus their lives are complicated because of it I know one of these enunciates is mine I was diagnosed with ADHD when I was nine most children with ADHD start to struggle with evidences even earlier than that I first noticed my indications in clas when we began doing projects that made projecting and I got forestalled a lot last-minute in middle school I was on the basketball crew but I was always late to practice eventually school teachers called my parents to talk about my scores since I understood information materials but didn’t turn things in on time at that point my parents my manager and my teacher all compared how things was just going to and that’s when my parents made me to see my pediatrician ADHD can show up in three different types distracted hyperactive-impulsive and blended my symptoms are the most of the distracted sort I was having a lot of difficulty losing things or forgetting things not finishing homework and planning my work for assignments and future assignments my mothers told me at first that they wondered if I had a hearing problem because sometimes I would look like I didn’t hear them when they talked to me other children too struggle to keep their attention in class can gape super agitated at home and academy and have trouble with details for things they’re not interesting to children with more hyperactive or instinctive symptoms have trouble waiting for their turn they might get up from their tushes in class run around when it’s not a good time to do that talk all the time interrupt people or blurt out reactions a lot of times boys with ADHD can get into trouble since the evidences can look like they don’t care or aren’t submissive of others but they do care they just can’t control it because of their problem with notice while some people might have inattentive type and others have hyperactive-impulsive type ADHD still others might have manifestations of both which is called combined kind if parties evidence six symptoms from either of the first two types or a combination of them supplementing two six they fit the diagnosis while ADHD is most commonly diagnosed in teenagers almost all of them continue to experience it as teenagers and a majority still have indications as adults merely some people grow out of it the most important thing to know is that treatment for ADHD works for little kids this is behavior therapy that also includes their parents so the whole family can be part of the answer for school-aged adolescents and older the right choice is remedy or a combination of medication and care I had behavior therapy where I learned some abilities like specific time management and organization procedures that helped me in school and in my play I also took a stimulant medication that helped me concentrates my attending sometimes people find immense help in non stimulant medications extremely younger babies for most people ADHD medications genuinely help focus and block out distractions ADHD is a serious challenge for children teenagers and adults who struggle to pay attention and focus in countless parts of their lives but there is hope treatment occupations clas wasn’t easy for me but with my therapy and prescription I learned what I needed to do to make it work beings go on to do well in academy and succeed in their lives and occupations in spite of and because of their ADHD I know I did[ Music]
