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30 Nov 2007, 12:26 am

Did anyone else see news of this finding? I saw it in the LA times a few weeks ago as well. I think it may have great implications for ASD, too, since the area of the brain that is slow to develop in ADHD kids, related to attention, focus, and planning, seems to be the first to develop in our hyperfocused kids. Then the area that is responsible for motor planning and sensory processing in our kids is the part that seems to be slow to develop.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 36,00.html

I always thought that our son just seemed like an 18 mo old in a 4 year old body.



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30 Nov 2007, 4:11 am

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kids with ADHD hew more closely to typical development trajectories only as long as they're on the stimulants. But when they go off their meds, she says, "they fall off the normal curve."


Heaven forbid they fall off the Normal Curve. Quick, get the amphetamines.


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01 Dec 2007, 1:04 am

Well, that last paragraph didn't really have anything to do with the research itself. It started out with a sentence like, "Don't throw out the ritalin just yet."
I was talking more about the finding than what the author from Time wrote about them.



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01 Dec 2007, 7:43 am

i think technology is amazing....that they could be able to tell when the cortex reaches peak thickness.....amazing

as for the author, seems like she was handed this small piece of data & told to expand upon it....fluff piece, i guess



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01 Dec 2007, 2:43 pm

I have two male kids with amphetamine, and without it they are flipperballs. We have showed school two times how they work without the medication and it was havoc.

But they're excelent in other spectrals of behaviour, my midst son is a true esthetical person like me but can't dress himself without supervision. Suspected HFA except for the ADHD. My youngest son is a school example of Asperger with ADHD. Our eldest daughter has managed (mostly) to cope with her dysfunctions, so she's just allergic.