u/Emotional_Army3791

Anyone else feel cheated? Like, you have friends/family/co-workers with kids the same age as your child, but their kids dont have ADHD, so they get to do things like gymnastics or karate or get on the honor roll, etc. Meanwhile, your child with ADHD cant focus long enough to do any of that, cause thats how I feel. When my son was in kindergarten, the teacher told me that the other kids would get frustrated because they couldn't get on with the lesson due to my child interrupting and it broke my heart. I dont know if he will ever have friends, or get picked for group projects or if he will forever be left out while kids around him get to experience so much.

I feel like a failure as a mom. My son just does not give any F's about anything. I tell him to clean his room, he goes and plays video games. I tell him I'm going to take away his video games, and he goes and plays Legos. I go in his room with a trash bag and literally start throwing things away since he didn't clean his room, and he just comments on how his room will be clean now. He is very smart, but chooses to not do his classwork, and then lies about it. He tells me his teacher didn't give him the work, when she did. He tells his teacher I took his papers when I never touched them and asked him repeatedly if he put them in his bookbag, which he said he did. Then he just lies about ridiculous things. For example, he claimed that he had been hit by a car while riding his bike when he was four. 1. He doesn't have a bike, 2. He's never been hit by a car and 3. Wouldn't I, his mom, who has spent every day of his life with him, know if something that big happened? I tried to reason with him, but he keeps demanding that it did happen. I want to give up. What can I do when literally nothing i say or do has any affect on him?