> children with ADHD require stronger incentives to modify their behavior than those without ADHD5; they also show a failure to delay gratification, have impaired responses to partial schedules of reinforcement, and preference for small immediate rewards over larger delayed rewards6,7.
I'm an adult with ADHD and that paragraph describes me to a T, though it definitely was worse as a child
I got my first D grade in a subject in fifth grade, and the next seven years were basically my parents trying every tool at their disposal to motivate me to get better grades.
I was on academic probation four more terms than I wasn't in college, and graduated with a low C average after 5.5 years, plus two summer terms.
I got hired at the only company that forgot to ask for my GPA.
I think if I were just sightly less intelligent, I would have been in a world of hurt and possibly dead by now.
Likewise, there is a fine line between my personality and the kind that tends to end up in poverty or dead where I live. I feel like I’m constantly barely clinging to whatever i remains about me that allows me to thrive at all. I don’t act to my best judgement most of the time.
I'm an adult with ADHD and that paragraph describes me to a T, though it definitely was worse as a child
I got my first D grade in a subject in fifth grade, and the next seven years were basically my parents trying every tool at their disposal to motivate me to get better grades.
I was on academic probation four more terms than I wasn't in college, and graduated with a low C average after 5.5 years, plus two summer terms.
I got hired at the only company that forgot to ask for my GPA.
I think if I were just sightly less intelligent, I would have been in a world of hurt and possibly dead by now.