Keeping an animal around for companionship has been a trend for hundreds of years, and it has long been known that owning pets can have health benefits such as reducing stress or lowering blood pressure. They are great to have in homes that have children because they can decrease the likelihood that allergies will develop. We keep several pets within our home, but the pet that I feel helps me the most with my anxiety is my cat, Elliot.
The ADHD Brain
One thing that frustrates me beyond end is the notion that ADHD is just a made up term to explain away the common behavioral problems of school age boys. That people who presumably have this disorder are, in fact, just “lazy,” that “bad parenting” is somehow involved, that they simply “lack willpower.” This idea has been refuted time and time again and yet there are still those who resist the idea that attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder has any value as an actual medical condition. If you, like me, have heard these arguments and are uncertain of what you can do to sway the minds of those who hold this opinion, then this blog post is for you. In the upcoming paragraphs, you will find statistically sound scientific evidence of the differences in the brains of people who have ADHD, both young and old, in comparison to a person without ADHD, or what would be referred to in the psychology world as a “neurotypical” brain.
Why Am I Here?
If you were expecting another blog where some woman prattles on about how to be the perfect parent under any circumstance, this blog is not for you. If you are looking for someone who has it all together, who keeps her house spotless, whose children are always well behaved, you should probably look elsewhere. However, if you’re looking for someone to struggle with, someone who fails, someone who is just trying to get through her day without anyone being injured or going hungry, then you have come to the right place.