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Children are human animals first — and before we can understand behaviour, we need to understand human needs.
Safety. Belonging. Power and control.
🥊 Stop reacting like a parent. Start guiding like a coach.
#ADHDParenting #EmotionalRegulation #ParentLeadership
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Proud to have co-authered this with @joannamoncrieff @JDaviesPhD & Lucy Johnstone.
Calling ADHD a ‘myth’ is misleading. But declaring it simply ‘real’, as though its scientific status were settled, is even more so.
Read why in our article for @bmj:
bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026…
Mothers and Fathers bring different things to family dynamics, mothers tend to bring emotional attunement whilst fathers bring leadership and containment which is a natural manifestation of the masculine vs femine polarity we all require to develop into healthy adults.
There is definitely merit to this conversation, although its important to keep the nuance and complexity with it.
The truth is finally emerging.
I'm so glad I wasn't diagnosed when was school age.
Childhood labels are dangerous, potential destroying and irresponsible.
spectator.com/article/is-the…
#ADHD
Because once you’ve made something that causes you to struggle part of your identity, it becomes blasphemy to question it and prevents you from having to take accountability and do the work needed to change aka identity protective cognition.
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I am struck by how many psychiatrists are socially conservative: happy to use ADHD drugs to make children conform, rather than challenge or alter the environment the child is being forced conform to. `Your statement epitomises what is so wrong with the medical model....
Channel 4’s The Great ADHD Myth? has caused huge controversy.
But I think arguing over whether ADHD is “real” risks distracting us from a much more useful conversation.
Here’s what I took from the documentary 🧵👇
🤖 Made with AI
The ADHD conversation doesn’t need to become:
MEDICATE THE CHILD
or
CHANGE THE ENVIRONMENT.
🤖 Made with AI
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People claiming they can’t work due to conditions such as ADHD and autism make other people with such diagnoses look bad.
ADHD and Autism are super powers, if you learn how to use them to your advantage.
Some of the cleverest individuals I know are autistic.
Normal is boring!
Stop acting like victims and complaining you’re going to lose your PIP.
Use your superpower.
Work smarter not harder!
My university assessment put my verbal comprehension in the 97th percentile—yet I still struggled to complete my coursework.
I could understand the subject, answer questions quickly and often finish tests before everyone else.
#ADHD #Thegreatadhdmyth #ADHDEducation
If you have just been watching Channel 4’s #thegreatadhdmyth and want further information helping understand ‘What ADHD is and what it is not’ along with strategies to help manage it without medication, please get yourself a copy of this free guide.
boxingevolution.com/free-adh…
