ADHD fidgeting good?
Thursday, March 26th, 2009A new study shows that children with ADHD may actually benefit from all their fidgeting. My brother was telling me that as a child his teachers and his mother would push and push to get him to stop fidgeting. His mother had other issues, but his fidgeting and other natural child tendencies led her to throwing him into therapy sessions with kids who actually had problems: arsonists, cat killers, drug users, etc. So this was an extreme case, but my point is that there’s a lot of misconceptions about human behavior. You can take jc’s posts about Dan Ariely speaking on cheating and stealing and irrational behavior as perfect examples. It seems we’ve been around for thousands of years, but we’re still so confused about the functions of our own bodies.