Is this normal?

[catsandchaos]

For a nearly 15 year old in year 10? Just been to school for his career chat and oh dear his body language. Slumped in chair, arms folded, looking up to ceiling and yawning. Fidgeting and looking quite wound up. He has ADHD

Trying to get my perfectly intelligent confident composed daughters to say more than yes no answers or make eye contact in such meetings at that age was fruitless. They do fine now if its any help.

Thanks . I am worrying as he was so restless, almost angry in his body language

I don’t really get your post. Why are you worried and surprised? Surely being fidgety and restless would be a result of his ADHD?

Irrespective of adhd issues I've noticed teenage boys generally aren't great at talking to/interacting with adults. I don't know the answer. Presumably they sort it out before their adult years and manage to engage in a job and wider Society.

@Rollergirl11

I don’t really get your post. Why are you worried and surprised? Surely being fidgety and restless would be a result of his ADHD?

Because his whole body language was negative and disinterested

Boys from what I'm told literally don't know what they wanna do with their life. Army? Navy?

I sat in a room of year 10s the other day and not one of them uttered a word to me, despite me trying to get them to interact with me and the presentation they were watching!

It might be normal at home to sit with a rubbish posture, but what you describe is really rude if you were talking to a member of school staff.

Yes that's normal!

Yes that is. As parodied by Harry Enfield in Kevin the Teenager.

ds at that age would have not contributed much to a school careers conversation other than what subjects he liked/did well at in school. He was fed up being asked what he wanted to do once he left school as he just didn't know what kind of choices were out there, and the occasional one hour "careers meeting" didn't help either. IME they are a waste of time, and the kids know that too, unless they have an idea of what they want to do and then the careers people can give some advise on college courses/apprenticeships/uni etc.

I would work with him yourself to find a potential area he would like to get into and research it further with him. Then the next time he has a meeting he might feel he can contribute something more and get something back out of it.