Signs That Your Child May Have ADHD

Avoids Tasks Requiring Significant Mental Effort

Children who struggle with ADHD often avoid tasks requiring significant mental effort. Again, this is a behavior that covers multiple settings. At home children will avoid tasks such as cleaning or organizing their room. Chores will often be forgotten, typically because the effort required to complete the chores is too much for their brain to process. In the classroom, this behavior will present itself in different forms but will come to the same conclusion of avoiding tasks requiring significant mental effort. The child may be labeled as a trouble maker or the child will sleep through classes. Instead of feeling like they are stupid and can’t do something, the child will act out or sleep so no one knows the true struggle they are facing. It is a defense mechanism many teachers can identify. This often includes not completing homework assignments or doing so quite poorly.

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