Wired for Connection Blog

Most parents expect ADHD to look like movement. Kids who can’t sit still. Kids who blurt things out. Kids who bounce from one thing to the next without ever finishing anything. 

But there’s another pattern that trips families up far more — and it’s the one nobody talks about enough. 

The teen who ...

You’re mid-Zoom call, trying to focus, when your kid barrels in:

“Can you take me to the pool? Everyone’s going! I need to know NOW!”

Suddenly, your brain short-circuits. Not because you don’t want to help - but because you weren’t expecting it, you’re trying to hold your own plans together, and y...