ADHD School Struggles Lunch & Triggers! Real Talk for Kids

And I think also understanding that ADHD and autism, neurodivergence, not only affects in the classroom, it affects outside the classroom too. So it affects before school when kids are interacting, it affects in between classes when, you know, you get into middle school and high school, it impacts lunch, it impacts after school, it impacts interactions in classrooms. You know, say when a substitute teacher's around and teachers aren't But it impacts all of these different things.

The same child does not eat school lunch, and therefore by the end of the day they're dragging because their stomach doesn't feel well because of their ADHD medicine. This is a reality for many of our kids, and parents and kids and teachers and aides and all of that really need to look at these kids very differently and explore what is triggering this. What's triggering this behavior? Why is this behavior happening? Especially if it's a behavior that's not always happening for this child.