ADHD isn’t a death sentence—it can bring incredible gifts. Tips for professionals & parents to emphasize strengths when filling kids in on a new diagnosis.
, has described the neurological underpinning of ADHD as a relative state of disinhibition, giving rise to three negative symptoms: distractibility, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. A person with ADHD can’t inhibit incoming stimuli, which causes him to be distractible, and he can’t inhibit outgoing impulses, which causes him to be impulsive or hyperactive.
In my 30-plus years of helping people of all ages who have ADHD, I have learned that the moment of delivering the ADHD diagnosis ranks among the most crucial. It can determine the arc of a person’s life. Done right, a diagnosis can be accurate without sacrificing hope or limiting growth.In many doctors’ offices, diagnosing ADHD is the opposite. It comes with negative terms, and the mood is somber. As one parent told me, “I felt we were being told my child had cancer.
I say to people, “I am not in the business of treating disabilities. I am in the business of unwrapping gifts.” That is not to say I regard ADHD as a gift. As defined in the, ADHD means trouble. But if you look past the troubling symptoms, you can usually find evidence of a child’s gifts. A growth mindset can be taught and learned by anyone. If you work and study hard, the sky’s the limit! Since there are Nobel, Pulitzer Prize, and Oscar winners who have ADHD, as well as billionaires and CEOs of major companies, that limit is not an exaggeration.
This should not be. The documented damage done by stereotyping, in which a stereotyped group performs down to expectations, is called “stereotype threat.”
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