By Diane M. Kennedy
Ultimately, long-awaited solutions to the questions you’ve been asking. aid for pissed off ADHD sufferers and their households. (As good as people with autism, PDD, Asperger’s syndrome, and different similar conditions.)
Attention deficit/hyperactive illness (ADHD) is without doubt one of the so much swiftly becoming diagnoses of our iteration. frequently the analysis fails to supply genuine support, leaving sufferers, medical professionals, and households at a loss to understand what to do subsequent. yet for the 1st time ever, new insights into the overpowering variety of similarities among Autism and ADHD are giving people with ADHD real desire.
For years, the label of Autism has carried a unfavourable connotation. mom and dad have been afraid to confess the prognosis and banished the time period from dialogue. eventually, The ADHD-Autism Connection offers mom and dad, educators, and medical professionals a cause to embody autism with a renewed feel of desire and realizing. This ebook will exhibit how those understandings can reduce the disappointment, misdiagnoses, and misunderstandings ADHD victims and their households face.
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I began to consider ADHD and ADD as something like a cold virus. In one person the virus is manifested as a head cold, in another as a chest cold. This is what it seemed like with attention deficit. ” And then, “No, maybe not exactly. It’s also hypoactivity. ” As a mother who had closely followed the ADHD research for five years, I thought I understood what ADHD really was, especially since I had two textbook cases of the ADHD syndrome in my home. However, I quickly discovered that my journey with ADHD had only begun.
This book examines the issue and the immediate need for further research. In response to those who believe that Asperger’s syndrome has become the most recent in trendy diagnoses, I must point out a few things. First, Asperger’s is a form of autism. It is a social-communication disorder that seriously affects the quality of life for those who have it. People often call them eccentrics or odd ducks. Yet these benign labels mask the deficits that make it difficult for these individuals to function normally.
An office or school environment that would not bother a normal person bombards the ADHD, autistic, or Asperger’s person with sounds equivalent to a boiler factory. This very quickly causes fatigue and makes concentration impossible. I know one college student who is driven to distraction because she can see the sixty-cycle flicker of the fluorescent lights and can hear the electric wiring humming in the walls. Tactile oversensitivity is another problem that is shared by people with autism and ADHD.