How ADD Affects College Students
Not only children suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. While growing up, people continue to suffer from ADD. Depending on people’s age, this disorder affects them in a different way. For many students college is not an easy time.
Some people are happy to feel grown-ups, being free to do what they want, having an absolutely new stage in life. Such people find college years exciting. But what about those who suffer from ADD? For them this transformation would be a harsh time. It’s naturally that at home their families accommodated to their situation as much as they could.
Here at college THEY take care of themselves. A new environment is not that exciting for ADD students. To overcome the first problems and to deal with future troubles ADD students need three things: habit, structure and routine. And all this should be taken not gradually, but at once. When becoming a student, one should first of all become responsible.
ADD teens used to have a rather structured life at home. When turning students they have to recreate this life. Usually people suffering from ADD are neither structured nor organized. That’s why it’s difficult for them to deal with college requirements. Such students need more time to establish discipline.
Besides accommodation worries, students face more difficult academics that they had at high school, for instance. This is another kind of responsibility they have to obtain. There is more academic pressure, and as a consequence – more everyday stress. No wonder that ADD students with their distractibility, impulsiveness and general inattentiveness would have to work really hard.
But they used to regulate their behavior at high school; a new environment shouldn’t prevent them from doing the same thing. An ADD student should make an effective organizational system (calendaring; this also could be a digital organizer). At high school such students hold their hands; they are reminded when they have to turn in.
In college it’s all different. They would have to deal with dates and deadlines. Their place at the dorm or apartment should also be organized. All this would make ADD student’s life easier!