It is not unusual for children and adults with ADHD to feel both emotionally hyper-sensitive, as well as physically hyper-sensitive to touch, sounds, light, even the tags on clothing. Awareness and understanding of these sensitivities that can sometimes be associated with ADHD is a good first step in getting a better handle over them. Please share about some of the sensitivities you or your loved one experience related to ADHD. It often helps to hear from others who are going through the same feelings. Feel free to share tips for how you deal with the sensitivities, as well. Thanks!
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Our hypersensitivity stemmed from our son’s feeling different. It was more emotional hypersensitivity than physical. We restructured our parenting approaches and also used cognitive games. We used Play Attention (www.playattention.com) and ADHD Nanny (www.adhdnanny.com). We’ve been very successful with these approaches. We also changed our parenting skills with great success.
It’s just important to know that medicine teaches nothing. Parents and teachers must actively participate to help change a child’s life.
As a former principal and educator, I’m aware that 1 – 4 months of academic achievement are lost over the summer by the average student. It was far worse than that for our son, Alex. Thus, we began the next year with a big deficit. With these new approaches, we didn’t have the emotional or academic roller coaster rid. Very good.