Well done Corrie! (ADHD PLOT)
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I'm thrilled Corrie is going to be tackling a ADHD plot with Max. It's a real social issue of our time, and an important one to highlight, well done to corrie for tackling it and I'm sure the show will do it justice. 
And it'll give the Platt clan a new interesting story, especially with Kylie ending up taking Max's medication herself.
And it'll give the Platt clan a new interesting story, especially with Kylie ending up taking Max's medication herself. 0
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They have already ruined it.
Max developed ADHD in seconds after being a fairly normal, well behaved boy.
No gradual build up, it was instant change!
I keep hearing this statement on various talk shows on the radio but I don't recall hearing where this information comes from.
I have to be honest and say from someone who has not had any experience of this, that the above would not surprise me if a fact!
By the way, I was a single parent (Dad) after my wife deciding she wanted to regain her youth and have nothing to do with a 4 year old boy and a 6 year old girl.
Is it, is it really. Because I work with children and I can tell you now that that is one of the most narrow minded load of BS I've heard since bars and melody on britains got talent
I am not a brat..... I am an adult
I was not badly behaved..... I was very well-behaved
I was not spoilt.... I was well brought up by good parents...
It didn't stop me being BORN with ADHD.....
My sister, brought up exactly the same way, was not..
Is it? Is it really?
A little unfair because I've heard of children from more affluent families suffering from it. In fact I know someone who suffers from it and they aren't from a chav family.
10,000 scientific reports backed by 98% of them.....
you get to read about the fluke 2% in the Daily Fail
Bullying is a social issue, too, but that was, it seems, solely introduced, and briefly, as a lead in to Tina's befriending Simon. Just as this "ADHD plot" is to lead in to the actress portraying Kylie having a break from the programme for a while.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Is it, is it really?
Led a sheltered life then.
No he isn't. He's a plank.
There is an argument that some children growing up without structure can show behaviour similar to ADHD, but it is all a bit chicken and egg. A lot of parents leave because they can't cope with their kids having problem behaviour (my dad did, and he is a doctor).
ADHD is a very real condition, and (as with autism) it varies massively from person to person. Sometimes it affects the intellect, sometimes it doesn't. It doesn't matter what background you come from. When I did teaching practice in school, one of the teachers told me to watch the ADHD kids and see if I could spot when their medication kicked in - it was really remarkable to watch, and I don't know that they themselves had any awareness that it was happening.
A decade ago, there was a lot of similar suspicion/prejudice about dyslexia. It was labelled an excuse for poor writing/stupidity. Now, it is recognised and dealt with at an early age. My daughter has a condition which means that the characters on a white page or screen appear to move; she uses a coloured filter now when reading. This can be associated with dyslexia, but in her case is not. It was spotted when she was five.
These days, there is a big focus on looking at why children are not reaching targets, and whether or not there is anything that can be done to help them, because early intervention is crucial. I just wish my brother had been brought up in this age - his life would have been very different.
Probably because the difficulties of bringing up a child with ADHD puts a huge strain on relationships.
I think a lot of couples with a disabled child split up. It really is tough.
Very true. My father and one of his brothers both showed a lot of behaviours that are typical of Asperger's and my father showed definite signs of OCD, too, but they grew up in the 1930s when these things hadn't been identified.
My brother almost certainly had ADD or something, we used to call him "grasshopper brain". We just thought he was naughty and got hacked off that he never slept for more than a couple of hours.