So, you can’t slow down or stop when you need to. Your brakes just aren’t strong enough to control the powerful brain you’ve got. You have the power to win races and become a champion.” “However,” I continue, “you do have one problem. Your brain is like a Ferrari, a race car.
After putting all this information together, I’m now able to tell you that you have an awesome brain.” “I’ve taken your history, and I’ve read what your various teachers have had to say about you. I say to whomever it is I am giving the diagnosis of ADHD, “I have great news for you.” At that the child, and his parents, look up, as this is not what they’d been expecting to hear. The model I use when I present the diagnosis to children is as follows. Instead, I recommend embracing a strength-based model, a model that acknowledges while there is a potentially serious downside to ADHD, there also is a potentially spectacular upside to it as well. They’d prefer to fail on their own then cop to a plea of “deficit disorder” to get the help they need. Who wants to have a “deficit disorder”? How much enthusiasm can you expect someone to muster to deal with that? It is no wonder that many children reject the diagnosis and refuse to accept the label. While the medical model is preferable to its predecessor, which I call the “moral model” by which a child was labeled “bad,” “wayward,” “lazy,” or even “incorrigible,” the medical model slaps a pathological diagnosis upon the child, and a pretty miserable-sounding one at that. The current medical model for ADHD is deficit-based, as the name itself demonstrates: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Hallowell on slowing down your ADHD brain in ADDitude. Read more and get practical tips from Dr. People with ADHD can be impatient, and to use such time imaginatively would require something we don’t have: patience. Producing identification, the cashier writing it down, the customer putting it away, all of which seems to take forever. I hate it when I’m in the checkout line at the supermarket, and I get stuck behind a person who wants to pay with a check. We get off on speed, and we abhor slowing down. If our bodies are not moving a mile a minute, our minds are, ideas popping up like popcorn at the movies.”? Your Racing ADHD Brain and the Need For Speed Hallowell says, “ Telling someone with ADHD to slow down is like telling the sun not to shine and the tide not to rise.
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In his ADDitude Magazine article on “ How to Slow Down Your Racing ADHD Brain,” Dr.
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