DD occasionally goes into these periods where you can't get her attention unless you physically touch her or wave your hand in front of her face. She is perfectly willing to obey you, if you aren't already losing it by the time you finally get her attention. What's the problem?
Well, its ear wax, actually. The symptoms are subtly different from inattentive ADHD because they seem to get worse all of a sudden (when the wax finally plugs the ear canal entirely), and they don't really seem to (pardon the pun) wax and wane like attention usually does with straight ADHD. The weird thing is, DD, who is 6, doesn't really even seem to notice that her hearing isn't working. She just tells us how much better she can hear after her canal has been cleaned out.
This is one of the many reasons why you should never base a diagnosis on a checklist alone. And always make sure you keep up on your regular pediatrician visits (this most recent time, the pediatrician caught the problem at a routine checkup). And if your child has excessive ear wax, don't accept that the symptoms are due to ADHD until someone has looked in your child's ear!
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