November Challenge

So I have been away from blogging for a number of week (hmmm months to be precise) and i have missed it but I havent as well. I havent missed feeling I have to blog or feeling I have to read other blogs.

Having had some time off from the blog and coming back to it, I have thought a lot about why I started blogging. I think it was to find more support for ADHD.

ADHD is something that affects our family life.
My eldest son suffers from it.
I get very frustrated that ADHD hinders my son's ability to learn and concentrate but is not deemed a disability even though he is on the special education needs register.
We don't stand a chance of getting a statement of needs.
In order to keep his focus and for him to learn he needs support.
I find not many people really understand ADHD or how it affects the individual or their family.
I find people think ADHD is just an excuse of terrible behaviour.
I find a lot of the support / help sites are based in America and therefore the educational side is not always relevant or helpful to those of us in the UK.
I wanted to help to raise awareness.
I wanted to meet other people experiencing the same.
I wanted to share.

Have I achieved any of this?
Just take a look at my blog pages I set up and it is obvious the answer is NO.

So this November I have decided to set myself a challenge.

I will try and do a blog post daily about ADHD, or something to do with it. I am setting myself an ADHD blogging month!  Having written this, I hope i stick to it!!

ADHD resources

I am not sure if I am meant to do things like this so I apologise in advance if I am stepping on anyone's toes.

About 2 years ago i started following a great blog for ADHD - Primarily Inattentive ADD.com and have found some really useful help. advice and articles through it. It has been quite a long time since I checked in with it but it has changed a fair bit since then and now includes a forum as well as blog posts. The site is mainly US based which I find a little frustrating as obviously all research, and many articles, discussions on medications are based in the US.

I wanted to share the following link to an article they have just published on the blog which I found very interesting and also to direct others to their site

http://www.primarilyinattentiveadd.com/2012/01/drug-or-non-drug-adhd-treatment-what-is.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PrimarilyInattentiveAdd+%28Primarily+Inattentive+ADD%29

Eventually I would like to include various things on my blog about ADHD as I find there is little out there in the UK, I certainly don;t come across many blogs, or perhaps I am not looking in the right places?