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Post by catseye on Nov 5, 2003 9:51:47 GMT -5
Just wondering if any one has determined a genetic link in their family, with adhd...
In my situation I think hubby (dad) may have a light case of it, but I think sd8 gets it from her past history mainly... The girl was so sick when younger, on lots of antibiotics, surgeries, seizure, divorced family, abandonment from her mom etc...
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Post by Dad2Brooke on Nov 5, 2003 10:32:23 GMT -5
My wife is adhd, so I suspect that that is where Brooke got it from. There a quite a few adhd people in her family.
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Post by eaccae on Nov 5, 2003 12:32:53 GMT -5
Although I have ADHD - H= hypo - DS is has ADHD - H=Hyper just like daddy. They are clones. They even have the same LD. The phone calls I am getting from the school are the same phone calls my mother-in-law used to get.  |
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Post by jdmom on Nov 5, 2003 12:50:22 GMT -5
Actually, I think dad and I both are (were?) ADD. Dad still has trouble to this day. Gets bored easily, trouble keeping job, no sense of responsibilty, blah,blah. I just have focusing probs. Very easily distracted, the worst procrastinator ever! Unfinished projects everywhere. Poor kid, he didn't stand a chance!
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Post by lovemyson on Nov 5, 2003 13:04:23 GMT -5
My father in law is suspected to have it and my husband was diagnosed when he was in his 20's. F-I-L never tested, in denial but M-I-L insistes he has it. Not even going there  |
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Post by Veronika on Nov 6, 2003 17:30:41 GMT -5
It has been proven that it is gentically passed through from 'father to child' and in some cases 'mother to child'.
I think Johnathon got it from both of us!
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Post by MommaToFive on Nov 6, 2003 18:14:56 GMT -5
I think Chris got it from his biological Dad.... He had it when he was younger... and still does.... Not sayin anymore ;D |
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Post by ridgerunner on Nov 6, 2003 22:21:32 GMT -5
I have never had a doctor tell me that I have ADD. But in researching for info for Holly.I have found so many stories that My parents could have written here.
My Huuby's twin brother has a daughter dx with ADHD, ODD, and a few other letters (I can't remember them)
So she didn't have a chance either.
A M ridgerunner
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Post by Allanque on Nov 6, 2003 22:24:09 GMT -5
Mom's been diagnosed with it.
Mom and I are still swearing that Dad lied to the doctor like he usually does when he got tested.
We think my brother has it.
One of my grandfathers likely had it.
I have tons of cousins on both sides with it.
I think I can probably just check the last one...
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Post by mom2tj on Nov 7, 2003 11:07:20 GMT -5
I am the one I'm sure.... I see myself in him so many time except for the fact that I was shy and whould hide from everyone and everything, DS is articulate and not shy what so ever... it get him in trouble sometime. he drew a pictureof himself for the psycoloigts he didnt put a mouth on it, when asked why he said if he didnt have one he wouldnt get in trouble  I think its a quality not something to be achamed of, I guess he gets in trouble alot with his teachers.... most people fall in love with him because he is so articulate ther is just no room for that in a classroom. |
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Post by sierra on Nov 7, 2003 13:37:01 GMT -5
I voted Mom because ADHD is rampant on my side of the family. Every one of my parent's grandchildren have been diagnosed with ADHD and comorbids. Although people didn't get diagnosed back then you can see the behaviors at least back to my grandparents on both sides of the family. Good argument for my great-grandparents. Maybe impusive behavior was just more common back then?
My grandpa lit out from home at age 12 because his dad was beating him black and blue. Never went back and never spoke to his parents again. Talk about burnt bridges! Kept up with his brothers though.
Although DH has ADHD and his sister has ADHD and other LDs and maybe his brother too the trail back through the generations isn't quite so clear.
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Post by Honeysmom on Nov 8, 2003 10:08:41 GMT -5
I had to vote mom because I know people on both sides of my family who have it. I think they have it on Hubby's side too, they just refuse to admit it.
I think Honey got it straight from me. That kid is a mirror image of me at the same age. He acts like I did, talks like I did, even looks almost exactly the same. (My mom insisted we had little boy hair cuts..thanks mom!) Lucky for him!
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Post by momof4boys on Nov 8, 2003 20:56:25 GMT -5
Well, I believe that my sons have add and adhd from their father. He has it and we can see that on his side there is more boys that also have it. It's pretty wild on holidays when we all get together when there is 13 grandkids and only 3 are girls and the rest are very active boys if not boys with add!! We also see it farther back in his family in my husbands cousins family.
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Post by rosyred45 on Nov 13, 2003 10:34:20 GMT -5
Mikey Definately got it from both sides. Hyper from both, impulsive from me, smarts from dad.
At least when we say we know what he's thinking, we really do!!!!
Kaiti
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Post by LitlBaa on Nov 14, 2003 1:52:58 GMT -5
As Katie gets older, I see more and more of her father's behaviors, and it scares me. The lying, the sneaking, the hiding things from me, are all things he did, which is why we're divorced!
He couldn't handle the little things like not paying speeding tickets so they went to warrant, not registering the car so it got impounded, didn't mail the PGE bill so the power was turned off, and Katie can't seem to do the homework, find the homework, or turn in the homework on any given day. I don't want her to live a life of total confusion, but once she's grown and gone, I can't monitor things for her.
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