Journey Through ADHD

Ever since Parker was 4 I knew he was different. We was and still our child that pushes the envelope. If there is a rule he will challenge it. He is super smart. There are days I can't understand how his 10 year old brain can understand things that it does. For example: I received a new hose for my vacuum from Dyson. It was in a box on my desk. I was upstairs and as I came downstairs I see Parker has taken the part out of the box, taken the vacuum apart and put it back together with the new hose in place. That was a year ago. He has an understanding for the way things work.

When Parker was in Pre-K I asked the teacher if she saw the signs of ADD or ADHD. She assured me that he was just an active 4 year old boy who is the youngest of 4 and has a dad that is deployed. I didn't disagree with her. Although in my mom gutt I knew something wasn't right. We had many days of meltdowns and defiance. But on the day when our sweet Parker would emerge I could see he was in there but was having difficulty communicating with us exactly what was going on.