Dr. William (Bill) Dodson

They can put up with that.

If the emotional flooding that hits kids with ADHD, it ends up having them ostracized.

Consequently, you know, whenever I have a parent that said, oh, I don't want to put my kid on medication, I say, look, you know, your kid is already suffering.

You just haven't talked to him about it.

You didn't know to ask.

Now, one of your partners has ADHD.

Passed on his genetic.

At least one parent has ADHD.

Go and talk to them about what it was really like growing up.

and then come back and tell me that you don't want to give your kid some protection from that.

People say, oh, I don't want my kid labeled.

Your kid is already labeled.

That ADHD kid, that kid who's out of control, that kid who's obnoxious and disruptive, he's already labeled.

Help them with holding treatment or holding recognition of what's going on and withholding your educated help is what's damaging it.

There's nothing more damaging in the end than being given a lifetime problem that nobody's taught you how to handle and somebody leaves you alone with it.

That's where damage occurs.

That's where despair occurs.

If there is a difference, all these guys will not talk about it.

If they internalize it, they see it as a failure of masculinity.

What they can tell you about is when they externalize.