Posted on 10/25/2023 8:11:49 PM PDT by Jonty30
This is a useful tool in testing your kids for the possibility of having ADHD. Basically, they overcompensate their movements when they have to go around something or if they are trying to balance on a balance board or tightrope.
If they move more exaggeratedly when they have to compensate by changing their movements, they may have attention deficit.
I just didn't realize that it may be ADHD related.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp42gdzFXgA
The observation may be valid, but the analysis is stupid: ADD/ADHD just doesn’t like wasting time.
Never get between ADD and target.
There is that.
As I said that objects in my way aren’t really in my way, because I tend to shift my body by a couple inches to get around it.
However, if that’s what a kid is doing, it’s a useful in that it may detect ADHD in somebody before they start school.
ADD is a blessing.
It can be, if you know how to manage it. Absolutely.
Anecdotal contradiction: very few people have ever seen as hyperactive a child as I was, ADHD Type 3 Severe.
Yet I have prodigiously perfect balance.
Two halves of a gate were built into opposing hillsides.
I closed the gate, started at the top of one hill, and walked across the closed fencing to the other hill for 12 to 15 feet.
This at the age of 30.
gee I may have it too....lol...I always thought I was just ungraceful and clumsy.
Unusual posture if they’re trying to balance on a tightrope. Uh, yeah, that would probably be me.
“ADD is a blessing.”
I’ve had ADD for years. Well at least that is what the little lady tells me. I take something for it and it helps. My only problem with it is when I get focused on something, (like posting on FR) it is an all day thing and I have difficulty switching my focus to something else.
Like this morning. I have work to do, yet here I am.
Get to WORK!
“Get to WORK!”
Unemployed as of yesterday.
Ouch. Sorry to hear that.
Well that is interesting.
I am pretty much rubbish at most athletics.
And I consider that I am ADHD with a touch (maybe more) of Asperger’s.
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