What exactly is hyperactiveness?

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Is it real? (Well, I know it's real, but can it also be used as an excuse for lots of things?)

What causes it?

And what age is it diagnosed at?

Maybe. Though she really didn't ask.

I actually think she was getting dd back.

I said to dd she had better ask her mum, and dd looked all around, I nodded towards the mum and dd gasped "I thought that was her dad" that's when she snatched the sweet from her dd

But she was really butch, and I can't blame dd. I have short hair too, so I'm not against women with short hair!

pmsl.

lol
i was just about to say, jesting, may e she didnt like the look of you

ROFL!

My son was extremely hyperactive when he was two years old.

I am sure lots of parents thought I was a lazy/ bad mum. My son was partially deaf and his behaviour improved over night once he had grommets inserted and his adenoids taken out.

Prehaps the short operation reformed me as a parent.

I think people sometimes have unreasonable expectations of what is normal toddler behaviour. Some children are born more active than others. Some children are more challenging than others.

In the past there were other ways of a child with an extremely active temperment to release energy without getting into trouble. Possibly ADHD is over diagnosed.

I believe that ADHD is a real condition. I remember meeting a child with mild cerabal palsy at our local child development centre who was permamently on the move. I was amazed by how his parents coped.

A child with extreme ADHD is disabled by it. If medication means that they don't get into trouble with the law or their parents aren't forced to put them in care, then its a good thing.