I must agree DeeDee.. and a good ADHD doc will titrate the meds. Once you have reached the optimum dose you don't even realize that you have taken a stimulant it is so seamless. It was music to my ear's when my dd said "I like being normal".
The professionals in the ADHD field feel that ADHD among the gifted -especially gifted girls-is way under-diagnosed. The problem with the SENG video and the January statement about the mis-diagnosis of the gifted with ADHD is that there is no empirical evidence of this happening.It is all anecdotal much like the bit in Webb's book about "resistant hypoglycemia ".
Frances Kaufman published this study in 2001 that did a synthesis of the research on ADHD and the gifted. http://www.sengifted.org/archives/articl...-we-really-know
"n recent years, several authors (Baum, Olenchak, & Owen, 1998; Cramond, 1995; Freed & Parsons, 1997; Lind, 1993; Tucker & Hafenstein, 1997; Webb & Latimer, 1993) have expressed concern that giftedness is often misconstrued as ADHD and that the diagnosis of ADHD among the gifted population has run amok. We acknowledge for the purposes of this discussion that there are cases of mistaken diagnosis, although as of this writing, we have found no empirical data in the medical, educational, or psychological literature to substantiate the extent of this concern.
The lack of scientific data heightens our dismay over the wave of skepticism that appears to prevail about the existence of ADHD in gifted children"
and there have been no new studies or research to counter this research paper.
My dd was diagnosed wit ADHD at 21 yo and suffered through K-12 and college with the burdens of un-medicated ADHD -which were diagnosed as CAPD and dysgraphia--on meds all of the LD's disappear.All of the OE's disappear. It's not about the academics it's about a quality of life.
