Survey for Pre-Teenagers

After a house fire, I am finally returning to writing my book on pre-teens and teenagers with ADHD. I am copy and pasting here a survey for pre-teenagers with ADHD. If you have a pre-teen with ADHD, I would so appreciate if you would permit your child to complete my survey and email it to me.

Here is the survey:

Dr. Esta M. Rapoport
Email: estamrapoport@gmail.com
Blog: adhdanswers.blogspot.com
Twitter: adhdanswers

 Survey on Pre-Teenagers with ADHD

ALL ANSWERS TO THIS SURVEY WILL BE CONFIDENTIAL. NO NAMES WILL BE USED.

Instructions:

Please type answers and send them to me on a separate piece of paper than this one that includes the questions.

Please answer the questions in as much depth as possible, and email your answers to me as soon as possible at estamrapoport@gmail.com. 

Feel free to write as much as you like in addition, especially whatever pertains to your emotions and/or feelings. You will be helping the many pre-teenagers with ADHD who have academic and/or social difficulties who struggle to get through each and every day. I am very grateful for your input, and pre-teenagers with ADHD will be grateful as well.

Dr. Esta M. Rapoport

 Part 1

1.      When and in what circumstance did your parents tell you that you had ADHD?

2.      How did your parents describe ADHD to you?

3.      How were you sure that you understood what having ADHD meant?

4.      How did you feel about having ADHD?

5.      How did your parents respond to the fact that you had ADHD?

Part 2

6.      What symptoms did you exhibit as a young child?

7.      What symptoms are you exhibiting as a pre-teenager?

8.      What symptoms did you exhibit as a child that diminished when you became a pre-teenager?

9.      If those symptoms diminished, why do you think that happened?

10.  What added symptoms do you exhibit as a pre-teenager that you did not exhibit as a young child?

11.  How are the symptoms of your ADHD affecting your school work and your grades as a pre-teenager?

Part 3

12.  How has having ADHD been difficult during pre-adolescence?

13.  How has having ADHD affected your self-confidence and self-esteem as a pre-teenager?

14.  How do your parents respond to you when you experience difficulties in your teenage years?

15.  How have your siblings responded to you when you had difficulties as a pre-teenager? (No siblings? Do not answer)

Part 4

         16. As a pre-teenager, what have you told your friends about having ADHD? If you told
              your friends that you had ADHD, how did they respond?

          17.  As a pre-teenager, what did you tell your extended family about having ADHD? If  
                you told your extended family that you had ADHD, how did they respond?

          18. How has having ADHD affected your social life, specifically making and keeping
             friends?

                                                   Part 5

19.  Have you been bullied as a pre-teenager? (If you were not bullied, were you teased?) If you were bullied or teased, what was done to you?

20.  What do you think was the cause of being bullied? (or teased-please clarify)

21.   How was being bullied (or teased-please clarify) related to your having ADHD?

22.  What did you do to stop being bullied? (or teased-please clarify) How did the techniques work that you used to stop being bullied? (or teased-please clarify)