by Cynthia Hammer, MSW, Author of the book, Living with Inattentive ADHD
It seems that the more I learn about ADHD the less confident I am about what I know!
I tell people (because this is what Dr. Dodson wrote in an ADDitude article) that people with Inattentive ADHD often need less than the recommended dose of medicine while others with ADHD might need much more than the recommended dose.
But how does Dr. Dodson know this? His clinical experience? A general agreement with his prescribing colleagues? Research? I don’t know his source, but because he is a doctor who wrote it in ADDitude magazine, I accept it as true.
Dr. Barkley reports that people with ADHD live, on average 12 years less than those without ADHD. How did he come to this conclusion? Did it include only those who had been diagnosed and treated with ADHD or did it include the 90% of adults who are believed to have ADHD but haven’t been diagnosed?
If you are diagnosed and treated early in life, can you expect a normal life span? If you are diagnosed much later in life, then is it, “Sorry, you’re too late to qualify for a normal life span” ?
We never seem to know enough or know what we need to know.
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