For children, there is the Conners 3 Global Index (Conners 3GI) to measure improvement. These are forms your treating physician would supply to you and your child’s teachers to complete.

Years ago, Lynn Weiss, Ph.D. and author of numerous ADHD books said people with ADHD can do anything, they just have to figure out what works for them. After years of struggling to manage a household, I finally figured out ways that work for me.

Adults with ADHD don’t typically try to understand why things went wrong. We move on to the next shiny thing. ADHD medication slows down our racing thoughts, so we can ask, perhaps for the first time, “Is this the best thing to do?” or “Is this the right thing to say?”

I recently discovered free music videos that provide “Deep Focus … for ADHD Relief and Concentration.”  The RedGreen Productions company posts videos that vary in length from 2-12 hours!

Any child or adult with or without ADHD has many factors influencing long-term outcomes in his or her life.

We’ve known, for over 30 years, that adults have ADHD.  Why are there still clinicians who are unable or unwilling to diagnose or treat adult ADHD?   Why, when I visit online ADHD groups, do complaints about uninformed clinicians dominant the discussions?  

There are two meanings to myths. One is warm and fuzzy—traditional stories. The other is deadly—widely held but false beliefs. Certain myths about ADHD contribute to our early deaths.

In my next several blogs I provide the findings from research about the various life domains where (untreated) ADHD usually causes significant problems in a person’s life…

Take the quizzes and get an email with feedback on ways you may be different in that dimension…

· I hate how people deny that it's a real issue.

· I hate that people assume I'm lazy when they have no idea how much effort I put into managing my life.

· I hate that I need to take medicine.

• Like putting glasses on my brain

• Night and day for me

• College GPA before 2.5; GPA after 4.0

1. Getting started. The need to clear my brain of many issues before I am ready to take on mundane tasks.

2. Keeping my home clear of clutter.

Our small non-profit, the Inattentive ADHD Coalition, wants to achieve something big—that children with inattentive ADHD are diagnosed by age 8—and we’ve been told the way to do that is to focus on just one thing.

If you want an ADHD evaluation, you are in luck. Before Co-vid anyone wanting an evaluation, diagnosis and medical treatment for their ADHD needed at least one in-person visit with a physician before having follow-up visits via telehealth.

It seems that the more I learn about ADHD the less confident I am about what I know! I tell people (because this is what Dr. Dodson wrote in an ADDitude article) that people with Inattentive ADHD often need less than the recommended dose of a medicine

This is the best elevator speech about ADHD that I ever read or heard…

To those who have children that are neurodivergent and say they "don't want to limit them by putting labels on them….

First, let me clarify. “Mess” is “a situation or state of affairs that is confused or full of difficulties.” …….

Unless we have a way to know that the clinician we see for a diagnosis is an expert, we should ask if they will use DIVA 5 to make the diagnosis of our adult ADHD.

I made a commitment to mail 10 letters and am proud that they are ready to be mailed on October 1, the start of ADHD Awareness Month.  I found addresses for elementary schools in Tacoma by searching on the web.

Have you decided to take action?

Even though we know untreated ADHD results in major psychiatric morbidity, social, educational and occupational impairment, and increased mortality, too many children still fall through the cracks.