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ADHD parents, how do you teach your kids that we can sometimes be a bit overbearing for others? (lemmy.world)
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ADHD kids and also adults I guess can sometimes be a bit much for normies especially when we get excited. I know I do. Sometimes I even hyper fixate on a person for a while. I learned this by alienating a lot of friends over the years. It hurts a ton to be rejected so often especially as a kid and teen.

I'd love to be able to help my children to learn this in a leas painful way. But at the same time I don't want to teach them that they are in some way "wrong". I don't want them to feel like being themselves is bad. At the same time I know it can be hard on others when my kids are so overbearing as I tended to be myself.

Any ideas, thoughts and opinions appreciated.

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[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 5 points 21 hours ago

The best I can do is say "model it with them". What that looks like for me is having open dialogue with them about how they feel about attention and keeping that same dialogue open in the event that they can't process that and respond in the moment. Being able to do that allows them to think about my behavior and their own, so that we can both address how we feel about the attention we give each other and receive.