I can answer that! The speed, lights and patterns match more the speed of the brain firings that an ADDer deals with....
That’s an easy one. What would make you stressed out will calm them right down.
My daughter responds to caffeine or sugar by actually calming down. My other children bounce off the walls if given sugar or caffeine. It is all about brain chemistry.
Another clue if you kid may have ADHD is: if we give her Benedryl for allergies she goes nuts my other kids sleep all day.
I’m kidding most of the time about this stuff.
You really should ignore threads like this and go bang your head in the door instead. Should have the same affect.
>>What would make you stressed out will calm them right down.
And the opposite can also be true. When I flew as a young boy, my parent’s went to their MD to get something to calm me down during the flight. I end up running up and down the aisles.
My mom wouldn’t let me be drugged up (she was a school nurse and knew what ritalin did to most kids). I mostly grew out of it, but still sometimes am spacey, scatterbrained one minute then laser focused the next. Only very challenging subjects kept my attention in school.
Like you said in another post, I often think “what box are these people talking about?”