What is a sense of humor and how do you get one? Do you use humor to help you get through difficulties? In our "Facebook Corner" in this edition, we share a Facebook post by Veronique St. Martin about our interview with Rick Green on "The Impact of ADHD on Humor." 

Also in this issue, in our interview, entitled "ADHD and Juvenile Justice: Accused but not Sentenced," Robert Tudisco of the Edge Foundation answers the question, "Is ADHD a defense for juveniles who go astray?" Also featured is our interview with Dr. Arthur Robin, entitled "Defiant ADHD Teens: Tips from the Trenches, Part 2," in which Dr. Robin helps us pick which battle to fight with a rebellious or disobedient teenager.

 

 

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ADHD: Drowning in Media Sensationalism 

Wednesday, March 27, 2013, 8:00 pm

The New York Times printed a tragic story of Richard Fee as told by reporter Alan Schwarz. The story is disturbing. In short, Richard Fee passed away because of inappropriate use of stimulant medication. In this episode of Attention Talk Radio, Dr. Ann Abramowitz and Dr. Theresa Maitland share the tragic stories of many who suffer because of inappropriate use of media sensationalism. The story is disturbing. What is even more disturbing is that the media would capitalize on the pain of the Fee family, using sensationalism that causes further stigma on sufferers of ADHD who take medications properly. Very simply, the media could use counterbalance in their reporting by featuring positive outcomes. Join host and attention coach Jeff Copper to hear our guests tell the rest of the story!

 

Thursday, April 4, 2013, 8:00 am

The Northern Virginia Chapter of CHADD has invited us to do a live interview on location at Commonwealth Academy, a school for students who have organizational, attention, or learning differences in Alexandria, Virginia. The focus of our show is on answering questions most teens don't ask. On hand will be Dr. Clifford Sussman, board certified physician in psychiatry and neurology. We will be answering questions submitted by teens on a range of topics most are too afraid to ask. This will be an insightful show and will provide information that is difficult to obtain elsewhere. If you're a teen, have a teen, or know a teen who is impacted by ADHD, this is a show you don't want to miss.

  

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Véronique St. Martin is an Attention Talk Radio listener in Canada who has been blogging her thoughts on our Facebook page about our video and radio shows. We want to share some of her comments. (The content has been edited, as much of it is written on the fly.)   

What an interesting subject! Humor is very important in life, and particularly for us ADDers, because we live difficult things and because we often are anxious, nervous, stressed, impatient, and on and on. So, a sense of humor relaxes us, and as Rick Green said, it gives people a kind of power, although to me the most popular people usually have a good sense of humor... which isn't my case, unhappily. I don't have a strong sense of humor essentially because I've known a lot of difficulties in my life and also because curiously I hardly understand jokes. I laugh when others laugh because I may not understand the real meaning of the jokes. But it's not just an excuse to be dull, I know, LOL! In fact, I try to develop this personality trait and I believe everyone is able to do it if they want. In some circumstances, however, I can make people laugh and the more curious about that is that it happens spontaneously! The words come easily and, here, I just made a joke! It seems that when I try to do it intentionally, it doesn't work, but when I don't think to do it, it works! It's the same when I write. I write the best text when I do it intuitively, impulsively. But I find that many ADDers are professional humorists, so, a sense of humor must be a common trait among ADDers. As Jeff said in a recent show, ADHD can manifest differently in different individuals!

   

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There are 12 instances in each 24-hour period when a digital clock or watch will show all identical digits. (1:11, 2:22, 3:33, 4:44, 5:55, and 11:11, each times two = 12) for exactly a minute in each instance.

Since there are 1,440 minutes (24x60) in a 24-hour period, the probability of James seeing all the same digits in any 24-hour period is 12/1440 = 0.0083, or slightly less than one chance out of a hundred.

Practically speaking, however, since most of us are asleep from 11:11 pm through 5:55 am, James PROBABLY did not glance at his watch during those hours.

But if James sleeps 8 hours every day, the most correct answer would then be 6/960, or about 1 chance in 160. If that (or 0.00625) was your answer, give yourself extra credit for not viewing this as strictly a math problem.