“So, basically a huge contributor to ADHD is an inability to get a sound sleep. Treat that and most ADHD sufferers might have their symptoms minimized.”
As someone with ADHD and who has been through just about every treatment known, I come up with this hypothesis. Children get ADHD from distraction. A public school classroom contains more distractions than I care to list. To fix ADHD, go back to a number line, the alphabet both cursive and print. Don’t put pictures and crap on the walls. Don’t give teachers the power to force families to put their kids on ADHD medication. And let kids be kids.
All the pressure from teachers not teaching but lecturing has to be the most boring thing a kid can experience and then they are expected to thrive under the pressure. I didn’t thrive. I was up all night worrying, I couldn’t do homework which forced my parents to get upset with me and when I played sports, which I excelled at to a point of being recruited by colleges while in junior high school for multiple sports, I would quit out of boredom.
I know this doesn’t apply to most kids today, but my son also went through this the same way I did. Could be genetics. I honestly do not know. But coaching youth ice hockey for 19 years I’ve seen it all.
One quality of ADHD is the inability to prioritize activities in terms of their productive outcomes. It can all the same to them, where playing with a game has the same priority as that big test tomorrow.
That would be part of my problem, as I was never taught how to manage that and had it enforced.