Reply #9: One doctor described it to me this way [View All]

[Sydnie]

You're in a classroom and you are trying to pay attention to the teacher like everyone else in the room but you already have a pretty good grasp on the material from reading the book. Then a bird flies by the window and you zone out waiting for another bird to fly by. The you hear a noise in the hall and you zone out trying to figure out what the noise is and who might be making it. Then you feel the hairs on your neck as the gentle breeze from the window makes them "feel weird". You can't figure out why they feel weird so you zone out pondering the fact that your body is covered with hair and now they all are feeling weird because you are aware that they are there.

Boredom is the worst with kids like this. I had to constantly redirect my son to keep him on task. Seems he "noticed his neck hair" way too often even. His grades were always great once he was diagnosed and medicated. He could then stay on task long enough to show what he knew and not distract those around him. One accommodation that made for him in class was to give him a soft eraser. He could squeeze the eraser and release the desire to move and still sit still enough to give the lesson his attention. It worked most of the time.