DS (6) has recently been diagnosed with ADHD. We are hopefully about to start treatment with medication and behavioural therapy. I swing between being wildly optimistic that medication will solve our problems and despondent that it will just create a whole new set of problems when we deal with side effects.
We are not in the UK so even getting his diagnosis recognised here and getting the prescription medication is a big hurdle.
He's doing school in his second language and is really struggling with reading and writing. I constantly wonder whether to pull him out and send him to an international school, which is in English. I've just been told that he will most likely be told to repeat this year as he's made no progress. He's a bit more on the attention deficit side than the hyperactive side, but he can be very impulsive and a bit too in-your-face.
In my weak moments I just see him floundering through the system forever and never leading a really fulfilling life.
I suppose I just need to hear some positive stories about children who have struggled with ADHD but have improved with treatment. Thanks