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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
ADHD kids less mature


Hmm, ADD kicking in again. I did think of blogging but I got distracted. The usual. Couldn't be bothered. We had a 3 day weekend and I managed to tidy up my room. I even moved my heavy heavy bed. It's been a while since I got hyperfocused and just zipped through my room, folding, packing, throwing away. I wish it happened more often. Though now I have all these papers on my floor as I was categorizing them and I ran out of steam. These days I just get hyperfocused on my music. I can spend hours and hours cataloging my music. I guess it's my inner obsessive muffled by ADD.

I mean what happens if a person is obsessive with ADD? Do both conditions cancel each other out? Does the ADD stifle the other condition?

Anyway, I was chatting with my psychologist the other day about maturity, and how I didn't feel my age at all. My sister is 4 years younger than me, and everyone thinks I'm younger than she is, which is not a bad thing for someone who is discovering 30 is not that far away and is sneaking up on her like a ninja. I feel like I’m about 22/23. Though I've been wondering lately whether I should stop buying clothes where I usually do, it's always full of annoying teenagers. Last season I was like what the hell is this crap masquerading as clothing.

It’s probably why I’m famous for disliking my age so much and always wind it down, there are many people who don’t know how old I really am. I guess cause I really truly don’t feel as mature as my age says I should. It helps that my skin is not battered, although I’m getting worried about the bags and fine lines on my forehead, if I didn’t worry so, I could pass for even younger.

From ADHD kids' brains mature more slowly

“Crucial parts of brains of children with attention deficit disorder develop more slowly than other youngsters’ brains, a phenomenon that earlier brain-imaging research missed, a new study says. Developing more slowly in ADHD youngsters — the lag can be as much as three years — are brain regions that suppress inappropriate actions and thoughts, focus attention, remember things from moment to moment, work for reward and control movement. That was the finding of researchers, led by Dr. Philip Shaw of the National Institute of Mental Health, who reported the most detailed study yet on this problem in Monday’s online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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