ADHD is radical, man

We are thinking of maybe asking Gavin’s doctors about trying him on some.

I think nighttime usage could help improve his sleep quality and ability to fall asleep. He gets very restless (and then frustrated) when trying to wind down or relax.

I think it could help his appetite too. He takes the half of the lowest dosage of Vyvanse for ADHD, so really not much. And he says he feels “sloppy” on days he doesn’t take his meds (and you can totally tell what days he doesn’t take them). But it does REALLY curb his appetite. He hasn’t lost weight, and is on the growth curve. But he’s pretty tiny and doesn’t eat much during the day.

I think CBD could really help with some of his restless stimming too. He says sometimes he can’t stop moving, even when he doesn’t want to be moving anymore, and it hurts to keep moving but he just can’t stop.

Just wondering if this could help him vs. doctors throwing a bunch of pills at us or harmful therapies conditioning him into shit.

As for THC, as an ADHDer who smoked WAAAY too much weed in college, it doesnt really help. It can help calm down and help appetite, but my focus plummetted. I was super single minded  to a dangerous extent.

Tbh if you want my ADHD opinion, these can be dealt with separately. For sleep if ya wanna go natural chamomile could help. If that falls short, Valerian root knocks me the hell out. You can get teas, pill supplements, and if you’re lucky and have an herbalist near you, a tincture. I have no real suggestions for eating more, bc that’s a Very Doctor Problem, but for stimming I’d make sure he has truly satisfying stim toys. How does he stim? Does he chew? Flap? Rip? Companies like stimtastic and blogs like @stimtoybox can help you find a good toy while supporting autistic people. Personally I have a few chew toys at home and a fidget cube at work so I can stim without being overt. Depending on his school and his comfort you might be able to have some more obvious stim toys

Mostly at school he says his legs can’t stop moving and he feels like he has to walk. Part of his accommodations are that he gets “bounce breaks” so any time he feels restless, he’s allowed to get up and move around, or he can leave the classroom to walk around for a minute, or he can sit on an exercise ball and bounce around for a minute. He says it’s fun but sometimes it really hurts his legs and he doesn’t want to move, but feels like his body “is forcing him.” So just wondering a way to help him calm his legs down in that sense.

We are thinking of maybe asking Gavin’s doctors about trying him on some.

I think nighttime usage could help improve his sleep quality and ability to fall asleep. He gets very restless (and then frustrated) when trying to wind down or relax.

I think it could help his appetite too. He takes the half of the lowest dosage of Vyvanse for ADHD, so really not much. And he says he feels “sloppy” on days he doesn’t take his meds (and you can totally tell what days he doesn’t take them). But it does REALLY curb his appetite. He hasn’t lost weight, and is on the growth curve. But he’s pretty tiny and doesn’t eat much during the day.

I think CBD could really help with some of his restless stimming too. He says sometimes he can’t stop moving, even when he doesn’t want to be moving anymore, and it hurts to keep moving but he just can’t stop.

Just wondering if this could help him vs. doctors throwing a bunch of pills at us or harmful therapies conditioning him into shit.

As for THC, as an ADHDer who smoked WAAAY too much weed in college, it doesnt really help. It can help calm down and help appetite, but my focus plummetted. I was super single minded  to a dangerous extent.

Tbh if you want my ADHD opinion, these can be dealt with separately. For sleep if ya wanna go natural chamomile could help. If that falls short, Valerian root knocks me the hell out. You can get teas, pill supplements, and if you’re lucky and have an herbalist near you, a tincture. I have no real suggestions for eating more, bc that’s a Very Doctor Problem, but for stimming I’d make sure he has truly satisfying stim toys. How does he stim? Does he chew? Flap? Rip? Companies like stimtastic and blogs like @stimtoybox can help you find a good toy while supporting autistic people. Personally I have a few chew toys at home and a fidget cube at work so I can stim without being overt. Depending on his school and his comfort you might be able to have some more obvious stim toys

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I keep seeing people, especially older adults, claim that if you have “ADD”, you don’t have hyperactive symptoms or that you grow out of it, which is just not true. 

“ADD” or ADHD-PI as its now called, just means you have much more inattentive symptoms than hyperactive (hence, PI: Predominantly Inattentive). 

ADHD-c though gets a rep for be an even mix of both adhd-pi and adhd-ph when it is actually being able to be diagnosed with both adhd-pi AND adhd-ph.

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