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Article: kids and teens with ADHD are more likely to have car accidents.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/health...udy/index.html
Well duh. But I'm very glad they mentioned the importance of medication.
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Re: Article: kids and teens with ADHD are more likely to have car accidents.
Seems to counter the old argument that ADHD is "overdiagnosed" because Big
Pharma is pushing pills. I was so scared when my oldest granddaughter with ADHD chose to move to the BIG city (Kansas City) as she is unmedicated. She left a month after graduating high school so was only 18, but has been there a year now and has not had any accidents. WooHoo!
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Actually, maybe this sentence from the article means that ADHDers' risk on highways is relatively higher than non-ADHDers' risks on highways (compared to the relative risk on non-highways), but for highways are still less risky for ADHDers than non-highways are to ADHDers.
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Re: Article: kids and teens with ADHD are more likely to have car accidents.
I think for me highways or motorways are probably more risky. In towns there is enough going on to keep me focused on driving. Yes there's a lot to take in but it's all got to do with driving. I'm naturally more alert during city driving.
On motorways my mind tends to drift much more. There isn't so much to keep my mind anchored. |
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You said it so I didn't have to. Exactly, Ian
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those distractions, there are no dividers. Not to mention deer jumping out of the ditch and smashing into your windshield or fender. Pretty common here.
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I just got home tonight from Baltimore and Washington D.C. about 2 hours ago and had to drive in both cities. All the monuments, architecture, and historic landmarks to look at coupled with tons of traffic and me trying to navigate everywhere having to use gps on phone. I saw the Washington monument from a distance and forgot all about driving. Having OCD, anxiety and ADHD makes me an irritable, worn out and dangerous driver in big cities. When I was younger and just had ADHD driving in the city was very enjoyable and I could manage much much better. NY city and Boston driving was fun. Now, I am a basket case. I always take a Zanax now before driving in Miami. I can drive 12-18 hours on the interstate with no problem at all, day or night. 30 minutes driving in a big crowded city and my brain, nerves and patience are shot. It physically exhausts me. |
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Reminds me of a caller I heard who called into a radio talk show here in S. Florida. She honestly called the station to complain about a caution deer crossing sign on a busy road. She thought it was totally idiotic to allow the deer to cross there and was just going off. Only in Florida and she was dead serious. |
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deer to cross a busy highway. There are fences to keep deer from crossing the interstate or freeway, but nothing to prevent them from crossing a highway. Two very different roads. No dividers, sometimes no road markings if the road has been resurfaced or the markings have worn off. Along the four-lane highway I take several times a week there is a large sign laying in the ditch, been there three weeks, probably tells how far to the next towns along the road so no rush to get it fixed. Don't know if it was plowed into by a semi-truck or knocked over by strong winds.
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What's scary it that a lot of I-95 has no fence especially in the central FL. and more rural areas. I have seen hundreds of deer over the years grazing just 10-20 feet from the interstate at night.
I remember seeing and counting over 50 during one particular night trip. Last edited by Greyhound1; 06-26-17 at 10:20 PM.. Reason: Changed thousands to hundreds. Accidentally used ADHD math. |
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Re: Article: kids and teens with ADHD are more likely to have car accidents.
here too, they hang out in gangs and defy vehicles. buncha insubordinates. turkeys too. slow, messy and they yell at you in that gobble-gobble voice pecking at your car tires.
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