All Articles ByAvigail Portnoy and Eilat Vogbright

Children with ADHD often prefer being labeled as lazy or mischievous rather than facing the harmful stress associated with being tagged as 'stupid.'

For those with ADHD, there's a developmental gap in different systems. The intellectual age is about a third greater than the chronological age (a 10-year-old with insights of a 13-year-old), and the emotional age is a third lower (a 10-year-old behaving like a 7-year-old). This gap is the root of frustration for parents and teachers.