JERRY SCHWARTZ was thinking about Punishment and keyed into cyberspace:
JS>[May 26, 97 - 10:12] Walter Five of 1:106/7315 wrote to Bob Moylan:
JS>>>  Welll.... the so called "normal" child might make this abstract
JS>>>  association depending on his/her age.  However, the child with
JS>>>  ADD/ADHD will not simply because by the time any _punishment_ is
JS>>>  meted out the transgression has been forgotten.
JS>WF> Oh, I heartily DISAGREE. I am an ADHD adult. I *was* an ADHD
JS>WF> child. I certainly KNEW what I was getting punished for, and
JS>WF> *why*, most of the time. Usually it felt like an injustice, but
JS>WF> doesn't it feel that way for  
JS>My son will, if questioned, give the right answers to those
JS>questions: but he doesn't seem able to internalize this knowledge.
JS>He knows it's wrong, he knows he'll get punished, but he does it
JS>anyways and doesn't seem to make the connection.  This is very
JS>troubling and frustrating to me and my wife: the kid is 16, and does
JS>a variety of "wrong" things ranging from the bizarre (not bathing or
JS>brushing his teeth) to stealing from family members. 
Barkley describes what he calls a "reflective pause". That is the period 
where the brain take a moment and decides whether a person should act. 
ADHDers do not have this. This is the key to impulsivity and 
distractability.
                ===>The Voice of Reason<===
                     mark.probert@juno.com
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