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ADHD suffers often misinterpret instructions and other information because they react overhastily. This applies to both children and adults. They also often have poor auditory processing skills and do not always understand what they hear (on those occasions when they are actually listening!). It often seems that they do not hear or understand what is being said, but then one is amazed at what they have in fact taken in. The patience of Job sometimes seems insufficient when it comes to preparing an ADHD child for a test. After the mother has summarised every point in the book and gone through the work with her child three times, she’s often convinced that he hasn’t got the faintest idea about the subject – although mom could get full marks if she wrote the test herself. And then, just as she’s about to burst into tears or pull out all her hair, Tim nonchalantly rattles off the facts, completely and accurately.

These children often internalise much more of what they hear than we think. But at other times they can completely misinterpret the simplest of instructions.