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ADHD parents, how do you teach your kids that we can sometimes be a bit overbearing for others? (lemmy.world)
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ADHD kids and also adults I guess can sometimes be a bit much for normies especially when we get excited. I know I do. Sometimes I even hyper fixate on a person for a while. I learned this by alienating a lot of friends over the years. It hurts a ton to be rejected so often especially as a kid and teen.

I'd love to be able to help my children to learn this in a leas painful way. But at the same time I don't want to teach them that they are in some way "wrong". I don't want them to feel like being themselves is bad. At the same time I know it can be hard on others when my kids are so overbearing as I tended to be myself.

Any ideas, thoughts and opinions appreciated.

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[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 5 points 4 days ago

With both myself and my kids having a healthy dose, it's an eternal self learning journey. You might have some insights after years of living with it that they don't but you still don't entirely know their heads either.

I like to push the idea of known truth reflections. If things get confusing and chaotic take a bit to redirect towards some thing or fact that is undeniably true, and then use that pause to clear out the noise in the rest of things.

It's not saying anything is abnormal, but just taking a bit to clear the clutter.