Q: “I don’t know if it’s related to ADHD or just my teen’s personality, but he simply cannot lose. He has to be perfect in everything, or else he has a meltdown.
When he struggles with anything, he often reacts by wishing that he could be someone else, because ‘everyone else gets everything right’ while he’s ‘failing.’ How can I help him overcome his fear of failure?”A: It’s normal to want to get things right and avoid making mistakes.
Many teens with ADHD, however, struggle with losing and failure because they have received so much information and feedback, directly and indirectly, about how they get things wrong.It’s estimated that, by age 10, a child with ADHD could receive 20,000 corrective or negative comments.
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