Jack is a six year old boy with Hyperactive-Impulsive Type ADHD

First off, where I got information about the different types of ADHD:

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/adhd_add_signs_symptoms.htm

It lists, quite clearly, that ADHD can be separated broadly into two, according to the difference in symptoms: An inattentive type of ADHD and a hyperactive-impulsive type. The reason I chose to do my persona on the latter is because it seems more prevalent than the former. About 5.9 million kids in the world are diagnosed with ADHD, with possibly many more that suffer from it but are not diagnosed.

Jack is a six year old boy with Hyperactive-Impulsive Type ADHD.
The symptoms of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) appeared early in age for Jack. When he first started out preschool at the age of 3, it was noticed that he was unable to sit still for even a short period of time. He would irrationally become angry and hit the other students. He also had trouble following the simplest instructions and was generally highly impatient.

(Kids with ADHD are apt to lash out (hit) other kids and objects. Aggression in children with ADHD is usually a response to demands and challenges that frustrate them. For example here, a singlemother is concerned about her son as he turns aggressive whenever she asks himto do something for her.)

At home, the situation was not very different. Jack’s mother would get exasperated because he never seemed to follow any of her instructions. He also moved around the house constantly, and would get into a number of accidents (far more than normal for a growing child). The reason for this seemed to be that he never thought of the consequences of an activity before pursuing it.

(The above comes from many sources; children suffering from ADHD hardly ever consider the reasons for their actions and never own up to their consequences. A concerned mother with a daughter suffering from ADHD clearly sites an example of this here.)

In public places, such as the supermarket, Jack never seemed to want to sit in the shopping cart. If his mother refused to get him something he wanted, he would start crying loudly and rolling around on the floor.

At age six now, there’s been slight improvement. The tantrums have decreased (although they are exhibited rarely). But other symptoms of the disorder have surfaced.
In school, Jack is not very social. He is considered ‘weird’ by the other kids because he keeps playing with his stationary, such as dropping his pencil, or using one of his pencils to flick another one off his desk; he always blurted out the answer to the teacher’s question before the teacher had completed saying the question to the class; has trouble with hand-eye coordination such as riding the bicycle or tying his shoelaces. He also has difficulty concentrating and moves from one task to the next without completing any of them.

(Some of these I picked up from real-life examples of children who have exhibited these habits before they were ultimately diagnosed with ADHD.

The picking up and flicking of the pencils, not paying attention in class, were something done by a child named Jacob at his school, which was subsequently something he was reprimanded for at the principal’s office.

The fact that ADHD children are not very social or very accepted by their peers is reiterated in many blogs and medical help sites. This is due to the fact that the other kids are a bit afraid of their unpredictable behaviour.  There are many ways for getting children to control their behaviour, briefly outlined here.

Poor hand-eye coordination, lack of developed motor skills is a definitive sign of ADHD. Walking, playing sports such as kicking balls will be very difficult for a child suffering from ADHD, as cited here.   )

If Jack gets into a mood, for example if something makes him very angry, it is almost impossible to calm him down.

(According to one of the mothers in ahealth forum, her child is nigh impossible to handle when something upsets him. He screams at her and often tells her that he hates her, and it takes a couple of hours for him to calm down from this hyperactive state. )

Jack’s parents took him to a paediatric neurologist last month, where he was diagnosed with ADHD. He is now on medication and is less hyper. He is also displaying higher level of concentration and not only does he seem to be planning his activities, he also follows them through.

(We see a number of examples of how medication has managed to ‘almost cure’ the symptoms of ADHD in children. It has made them less hyper and more able to control their behaviour, not to mention improving their power of concentration to the point that they do their own homework without assistance.

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