What Your Child Would Tell You About ADHD If They Had the Words: Having ADHD is hard.

The emotional toll of ADHD is often invisible and impossible to describe, especially if you’re a child with limited vocabulary and perspective on the world. Here are six of the hardest things about living with ADHD that your child may never tell you in words.

Because it’s embarrassing, may leave you demoralized about being labeled the “bad kid” or the “spacey kid”, makes them disappoint you, and they hate that, makes you feel pretty dumb a lot of the time, even if you’re really smart, need a “special thing” that can’t be taken away no matter what, means you sometimes can’t shut up, and that is the worst.

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