Comment on It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome.

• Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That might the gist of it, but it definitely has everything to do with how the environment is structured. There might be no other feasible way to structure the environment though.

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  • McBinary@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not really, though. Rigid structure helps with ADHD, but only when someone else is enforcing the structure. Prepubescent kids with ADHD aren't typically capable of maintaining their own structure. They aren't neurotypical, it's more than distraction and energy, they have a functioning issue. They can't tune out all the stimulus that normal brains do, and because of it they miss a lot of social cues that help with development.

    My son has ADHD and no amount of reorienting our family environment would help him - he could (and has) literally be in a bare concrete room with nothing but his thoughts and get distracted and slam his hands together making exploding/punching sounds for hours, where a typical kid would get bored in seconds.

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    • CarolineJohnson@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I feel like rigid structure is when my ADHD gets worse…

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  • Jtee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    By the same logic paraplegics aren’t disabled because they just aren’t in an environment suitable for physically disabled people.

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