Serious question. I have a foster child with severe ADHD. How can I teach them to shut the hell up?
It sometimes take 20 or 30 words to say something that can be said in maybe 4 words. When they ask questions they don’t wait for answers before saying other things. It’s like talking as an exercise to continuously hear your own voice like political talk radio but even less intelligible and all over the place. A continuous stream of talking long past having anything worth talking about that people don’t want to listen to.
Their communications and social skills are severely affected and under developed and immature because they won’t shut the hell up. They can’t listen because either they are talking or they are deliberately pausing the talking to pretend to listen only to be thinking about other bullshit they wish was spoken.
It sometimes take 20 or 30 words to say something that can be said in maybe 4 words. When they ask questions they don’t wait for answers before saying other things. It’s like talking as an exercise to continuously hear your own voice like political talk radio but even less intelligible and all over the place. A continuous stream of talking long past having anything worth talking about that people don’t want to listen to.
Their communications and social skills are severely affected and under developed and immature because they won’t shut the hell up. They can’t listen because either they are talking or they are deliberately pausing the talking to pretend to listen only to be thinking about other bullshit they wish was spoken.