You're so very true for the ADHD students that I have had, along with accommodations that allow them to be in class and to accomplish. One of my students needed to stand up during the instructional time for a subject, this allowing him the expenditure of active energy that wanted use, allowing him then to listen to what was being said, at times, from the front of the room.
In addition to that, I believe and have found that all on the autism spectrum as it used to be divided up: ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's syndrome, and autism, all at times need a challenge in order to use the receptive mode that they are aligned to, to draw from within and to produce what it is they are inspired to produce. Many times procrastination on subject matters, for them/me, is like letting the information marinate within, often doing that combining together not totally consciously, but quiet intuitively, until the "deadline" or situation arrives and the individual is ready to bring their "product" out through a pencil, pen, activity or speaking.
In addition, to your comment about creating, sorry don't quite remember your words, creating a commotion outward when things are too quiet, is also true of many of these individuals when bored. They can actually create problems, some autistics even throwing things at times in order to get that engagement of attention and interaction.
The autism spectrum world is both amazing, and as you say "hunter" complementary to the more linear, sometimes repetitive brain of "farmer," indeed bringing forth contributions and solutions that would be entirely missed by the more linear world we live in.
Thank you Thom,
You're so very true for the ADHD students that I have had, along with accommodations that allow them to be in class and to accomplish. One of my students needed to stand up during the instructional time for a subject, this allowing him the expenditure of active energy that wanted use, allowing him then to listen to what was being said, at times, from the front of the room.
In addition to that, I believe and have found that all on the autism spectrum as it used to be divided up: ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger's syndrome, and autism, all at times need a challenge in order to use the receptive mode that they are aligned to, to draw from within and to produce what it is they are inspired to produce. Many times procrastination on subject matters, for them/me, is like letting the information marinate within, often doing that combining together not totally consciously, but quiet intuitively, until the "deadline" or situation arrives and the individual is ready to bring their "product" out through a pencil, pen, activity or speaking.
In addition, to your comment about creating, sorry don't quite remember your words, creating a commotion outward when things are too quiet, is also true of many of these individuals when bored. They can actually create problems, some autistics even throwing things at times in order to get that engagement of attention and interaction.
The autism spectrum world is both amazing, and as you say "hunter" complementary to the more linear, sometimes repetitive brain of "farmer," indeed bringing forth contributions and solutions that would be entirely missed by the more linear world we live in.
Will add, my website: HeartCenteredMinds.com, and YouTube hour talk in 2011: "Spectrum Learning Differences, Not Disorders."