Why do we keep trying to drug our ADD/ADHD children into being more like the normal people? Instead, we should be promoting the fact that they have a gift and find ways to stimulate them. Moving classrooms outside is a wonderful idea!

My biggest problem with ADD/ADHD is not the ADD/ADHD but the publics perception of it as a learning “DISABILITY”. I submit to you that it is the so called normal people who are learning disabled. If we as people gifted with ADD/ADHD “get it” the first time it is taught, why is that a disability? I see that as a gift! When teachers have to go over the same information again and again so everyone in the class understands it, they have lost the ADD/ADHD student after the first or second time! One of the problems with the education system today is the fact that they don’t get it. They do not understand how someone who appears to not be paying attention can know what they know. I had this exact comment from one of my sons teachers in Grade 8. she said to me “I don’t know how he knows what he knows because he never pays attention.” I told her, “He had it the first time you taught it but you lost him the second and third time you went over the same information”. It then appears to the teacher that he is not paying attention. He isn’t paying attention because he is bored! He then finds something else to occupy his mind such as getting up and wandering around the classroom, playing with his pencil, building paper airplanes and flying them around the room or bugging the other students. This then labels him as disruptive.

He is most definitely a Da Vinci and I see nothing but success for him if he can find something besides XBox that he is passionate about. I see it as my privilege to aid him in his search.

I realize that changing the education system is going to be an uphill battle but it is definitely one that needs to be fought.

Luckily for me I get to listen to your recordings as many times as i need to to get it all.

Thanks again
Brook

KIND REGARDS
HAYDEN HARTLEY
perth WA.

author of “TELL MARY”…………love, lie & angels….

anyways, ive recently self-diagnosed with the posibility of having Add, ive all the classic triats but thank god i was just seen as a giddy child but i have had re-ocuuring problems of ‘fitting in’ which is crazy as ive also been the most productive in school or work,…. gettin up and getting into a solid routine are hard,

thanks for the tipps via mail, maybe u could give some more out…. ‘wink wink…nudge nudge’… i will go for my walks in the morning from now on! then ill be more relaxed and make the most of the day!

i hope u can come speak in ireland sometime, im sure it would go down a treat!… and maybe ill be able to get the book from a local booksellers, ill get them to order it in!

all the best mate,…

Paddy

I don’t think I’m enjoying my life at this moment. My parents and teacher perceive me as an ill-disciplined, messy, impatient and forgetful child. My math tuitor often scolds me for being bored during lessons and claimed that I do not have the right attitude to do work. I love math. In fact I do love most of the subjects that I learn but somehow I feel “oppressed” during lessons. I need the “momentum” to do math. If I were given a stack of sums, initially it would take very long for me to get the first few questions to be done but subsequently I’ll speed up and do it super fast. But it takes the correct “mood” for this “momentum” to be cultivated. When being accused for being ill disciplined, bad attitude etc ( and the list goes on), I tend to defend myself and will then be labelled arrogant.

I am super easily distracted and can’t really concentrate on things like homework and projects. Worst, my score in elementary school got me posted to a top school in Singapore and there’s so much expectations from the teachers. As my GPA ain’t high enough to meet the standard for the subject comination I wanted, my parents tend to use this as a “rebutt” when I try to defend myself such as ” If you are that smart..why didn’t you make it into triple science?”

I know there’s more to me. There’s something different in me compared to the others. BUt right now, I just feel miserable in my everyday life. I’m not getting anything done at all, I’m not free, I hate my life. Pathetic huh.I feel as though I’m trapped in myself. Worse, I think that my entire family are davinci types but they keep denying themselves. They keep telling me its the “attitude” but I guess what they said to me were more for their own ears .Also, I do have most of the ADHD symptoms but my parents are in denial and attribute it to my attitude. Sometimes I cry, even in a fine sunny day, even when no one offends me. I just can’t find myself.

How do I get out of this submarine?
If you don’t mind could you also share some tips for Davinci type teenagers?( like how to survive school and stuff)

Tattered and torn they come one by one
They,ve not the eyes to see what they,ve done
Once they are healed they,re hearts are their shields
Please come home you are not alone!
This is the way I pray, this is the way I say I LOVE!

Bless you,
~Julia~