When others are unkind to your child with ADHD
By age 10, a child with ADHD has heard tens of thousands more negative messages than their peers. Roughly half to two-thirds face significant peer rejection, and reputations form within minutes of meeting unfamiliar children. Childhood rejection predicts depression, anxiety, substance abuse, academic decline, and damaged self-worth carried into adulthood. The cruelty your child experiences today is not a passing scrape — it accumulates. What surrounds that pain at home and at school determines whether it scars or strengthens.