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January 17, 2011 at 11:34 pm
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January 17, 2011 at 11:34 pm
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There is another more mundane reason for many of the things you hear associated with ADHD not being on a screening test.
They may not be actual symptoms of ADHD at all. Determining ADHD is all about specific symptoms relevant to diagnostic criterion, and many of the things we may think of as symptoms of ADHD are, rather, “side effects” from the actual symptoms themselves. Quite a lot of the side effects can be, and often are, common to many who don’t have ADHD at all.
Side effects are not usually a good idea to include in screenings, and that is why they are not included in truly good ones.
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