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ipsofacto reminded me of something that Barkley said in one of his videos.
In following patients, as patients became adults, the studies quit quizzing the parents and relied only on the patient for information. At this point, the patients didn’t report problems accuratelly so the studies would think the patient grew out of having ADHD. As the patient approached thirty and beyond, they became more self aware and reported symptoms more accurately. When the studies included the parents, the parents reported essentially a continuation of symptoms throughout this time period of the patients life.
I suppost the point being that I believe in my case I was probably as clueless as anyone. I would recommend that anyone in this age range have a “normal” friend or parent to go along to any ADHD assessments.
Have I made any sense? Probably not, go look at Barkley on youtube.
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