Sometimes a mother brings her child in for an ADHD evaluation and, somewhere in the middle of talking about her child, she gets very quiet. She has just heard herself describe the difficulty getting started. The procrastination followed by a frantic burst of productivity. The big emotions. The sensitivity to criticism. The tendency to lose things, forget things, or become completely overwhelmed by things that seem as though they should be easy. And then she says something li

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When a child argues about every instruction, refuses to start homework, procrastinates until the last possible minute, shuts down, or completely falls apart over something that seems small, it can be hard not to focus on the behavior.