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Titled: Does Your Child Daydream Too Much? ADHD and Inattention
Does Your Child Daydream Too Much? ADHD and Inattention
Article Summary: Sometimes I think my ADHD son is never in the same world I'm in. And since I have ADHD myself, I'm not sure I'm even in the same world as everyone else!
Sometimes I think my ADHD son is never in the same world I'm in. And since I have ADHD myself, I'm not sure I'm even in the same world as everyone else!
We talk a lot about "inattention" in ADHD, but I thought it might be useful to look at what the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic manual says about it.
Inattention can be recognized by four symptoms:
1. "Often becoming easily distracted by irrelevant sights and sounds."
2. "Often failing to pay attention to details and making careless mistakes."
3. "Rarely following instructions carefully and completely losing things or forgetting things like toys, or pencils, books, and tools needed for a task."
4. "Often skipping from one uncompleted activity to another."
Your ADHD child may not show signs of inattention, but may be primarily hyperactive/impulsive. Or your child may have combined ADHD and show signs of hyperactivity and impulsivity plus inattention. Or, of course, your child may have ADHD inattentive type and not show hyperactivity/impulsivity.
The information in this article came from a great report from the National Institute of Mental Health called "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder." You can download it from http://www.nimh.nih.gov.
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About the Author:
Angie Dixon
Angie Dixon is a writer and ADHD mom of an ADHD son, Jack. For a free report on helping your ADHD son, see Angie's site "That's My Son!" at http://www.Raising-the-ADHD-boy.com .
Keywords: adhd, add, attention deficit disorder, parenting
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