I am a child with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder
I love to move, sometimes I just need to move, so I'm constantly running, jumping, holding something in my hands, swinging and doing everything I can to keep moving. It's as if I'm hungry, but my hunger is movement! I feel this hunger for movement very often, and that's why it's hard for me to stop myself. They say that I move much more than my peers and that this often disturbs others at home, on the street and in kindergarten, so they called it a special word - hyperactivity. Everything seems to be fine, but I often look like I just came back from a battle: scratched, bruised, with torn clothes and broken things... It's not on purpose, it's just that everything happens so fast that I don't have time... I feel calmer not when I just run, but when I do something with my arms and legs and body, and jump and hang upside down like an astronaut and compete with someone one on one.
I really like soccer, but it's very difficult to keep track of all the "teammates" and all the "foes", as well as the ball and the gates, and the coach often shouts something. When I have the ball, I run as fast as I can and hit it, and then they say that I shouldn't have done that. And I have to pass, and, then, I want to pass myself. It's easier when you're face-to-face. Although it's not easy for me to concentrate either: when I'm building a construction set and someone walks by, I follow them, and if they ask me something when I'm busy doing something of my own, I don't go back to what I was doing because I forget what I was doing. I feel like I'm like a radar that picks up everything that's going on around me and can never stay on one thing. The fact that I find it difficult to stay focused on one thing also has a special name - attention deficit disorder. This is often confused with the fact that my parents don't play with me very much. But I get a lot of attention from them, and it's very difficult for me to concentrate on my own.
In addition, I have a lot of thoughts in my head, and everything needs to be done at once! It often happens that I do something, and only afterwards, I think about why I did it. Very often, I get in trouble for my ideas, although most of them are very funny ☺. For example, once my friend turned to me and yawned, and I had a small ball in my hands and of course, I threw it into his mouth... and he hit me and then we were both scolded by our parents... I often apologize and promise that I will not do it again, and everyone thinks I am cheating, because very often I immediately do the same thing for which I was scolded. Besides doing what I think right away, I often say what I think right away. Moreover, the fact that it is difficult for me to restrain myself is also called a special word - impulsiveness.
Very often people tell me that I am lazy and don't try, and that I am bad because I cheat, but I am not! I really want to keep my promises and I really want to be attentive, but I rarely do these. In fact, I'm not lazy or angry, but my brain works faster, it's easy for me to accelerate but hard to slow down. I'm not "rude," it's just that my brain doesn't know how to brake well and in time. The part of my brain that is responsible for braking doesn't work very well. And this checkpoint is right behind your forehead. It seems to me that it's like in movies, where there is a command post with many leaders sitting there, and they are all very attentive and give instructions to who should go where, where to stand, where to attack, where to retreat.
And all of them work like clockwork, very precisely and very smoothly. But my command post looks different: my managers are late, give orders not on time, forget to fulfil them, disappear somewhere, and sometimes just play board games... so it often ends up sad for others. Sometimes, what happens in my brain, where my forehead is, is called physiology, and they say that the transmitters (substances that transmit signals between brain cells) work slowly and do not have time to slow down all my ideas. That's why they say I don't need calming teas or pills, but there are special ones that help my "command post" to be very attentive, as if they had a delicious coffee ☺.
And also, the more often I try, the more often I fail, and I think I'm not capable of anything. Even simple tasks fail: pouring water and not spilling it, writing neatly, etc. Because of this, I don't often want to start new and unknown things, tasks or games because I'm afraid I won't be able to do them.
I think there are a lot of kids like me. If there are two soccer teams on the field, two or three boys look a lot like me. Probably every classroom at school has one or two of its own "Peter Piatochkin ".
Although I am very awkward, people like me because I don't hold a grudge for a long time, I always have an idea of what to do, I can make a clown out of myself and make everyone laugh. Those who really know me are sure that I rarely do my pranks "out of spite," but mostly to have fun or out of boredom.
It is very important for me that adults, my parents, their friends, relatives, kindergarten teachers, and school teachers, know that I try hard, but because of my hyperactivity, impulsiveness, and inattention, I rarely manage to keep my promises or complete a task.
It is very important for me that people believe in me, even when I make mistakes many times in a row. When I am reminded with a word or a gesture, or warned about the time, or given a little advice on how to get organized, it's as if all the LEGO pieces fall into place in my head. Sedatives or teas do not help me, they often make things worse. There are other medications that make my brain accelerate quickly, as well as slow it down!
One day I may become an actor, athlete, or inventor like Dustin Hoffman, Michael Phelps, or Albert Einstein. However, as long as I'm young, I need understanding and proper support. Maybe I won't become famous all over the world and that's not the most important thing, but I know for sure that I want to stay happy!