ADHD or Aroreretini

This can be with or without impulsivity. The diagnosis of ADD has been removed with the publication of DSM V.

There are two main causes of this condition – boredom and confusion. People with ADHD are very intelligent and like dyslexics, are used to disorientating into their own world to be entertained as they usually find school and/or the real world boring.

Often a dyslexic child will also appear to be ADHD as they disorientate into their own world while they wait for the feeling of confusion to disappear.

Because they spend a lot of time in their own world, they miss out on life lessons and classroom lessons.

• Distractibility
• Impulsivity
• Hyperactivity (or hypo-activity)
• Tendency to excessive daydreaming
• Behavioural issues
• Difficulty making or keeping friends
• Lack of awareness or knowledge of time
• Difficulty understanding or following instructions
• Difficulty with organisation
• Procrastination
• Difficulty with sequencing

A person with ADHD can experience time either faster or slower than reality and their understanding of concepts like change and consequence can be flawed or missing. Without a solid understanding of change, our understanding of consequence cannot be concrete. Without this, concepts of cause, effect, before and after cannot be sure. Without an understanding of before and after, understanding of time cannot be attained, nor can concepts of sequence and how to create order be fully understood.

People with ADHD are picture thinkers. They convert language (both oral and written) into a picture or movie, process it and then act. If a negative instruction is given, they will often do the opposite to what is intended. That is because there are no automatic pictures for words like “no”, “not”, “don’t”, “never”. If a picture thinker is told “Don’t run”, the first thing that comes to mind is running, in their impulsivity or eagerness to please, they will implement that picture and do the opposite to what was instructed.