Praise God! One step forward. Now Sensory Integration Disorders (SID) diagnosis and treatment need to be looked at by qualified doctors when examining a child for Diagnosis and Treatment of ADHD. My son has SID, ADD-Inattentive, a few learning disorders, ODD and mild Conduct Disorder. At age 13, he acts like a 9 year old. I knew something was wrong when he was three years old, but doctors looked at me like I was crazy. Kids with SID can be diagnosed around age 3. The sooner kids get help and treated, the better off they are.
Thanks for bringing SID up. Hypersensitivities are common in children with ADHD. It seems many doctors overlook this but hopefully as we learn more and understand the connection, it will be noticed earlier so parents can manage sensitivities.
Here is a link with more information on SID in children with ADHD:
Managing Hypersensitivities in Children with ADHD
Eileen
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. . . but I suspect that most parents reading this information would not know how to proceed. Maybe these specifics will help:
1. It's not your child who has ADD--it's your family. As the article points out, ADD is hereditary. You and your spouse didn't know which one of you (hopefully not both, since that would mean you're no longer married) had it while you were "courting."
2. To see how this plays out in your family, picture a seesaw. The middle, balanced part, is normalcy. The ends are extremes, each one representing bizarre behaviors. The ADD people can't deal with one another's craziness, and each ADD person rubs everyone the wrong way. Each participant seeks safety and distance from the others; i.e., occupying different points on the seesaw. For example, mom may occupy the safe, sane middle. Dad may want to get as far from Junior as he can, so he flees to an end, spending too much time on the computer or exercising or volunteering or working. Junior feels safe only when he is apart from the others so that no one can object to his behaviors and reject him.
3. Even more perplexing, Junior may separate himself from the others by occupying the center, the safe, sane place, leaving the two extreme ends to his parents.
Does this picture sound like your family? What do you do about such a situation? Seek out a family counselor, what I call an interventionist. It's a recognized specialty, referring to someone who's trained to work intensively with a family, to be available 24/7/365 as needed.
Thanks for adding this extra information. You are right, there are many that don't know what steps to take or what to do when they think their child has ADHD. Hopefully, the information you supplied and the information on the site will help them find the help they need.
Eileen