Eight-year-old carries around cards to explain his ADHD to judgmental onlookers

  • 5 years ago
Daniel Booth suffers from both attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism, which affect his behaviour when he is out in public. The youngster struggles to deal with change in his routine and quickly become upset when he hears onlookers mentioning his behaviour. One day Daniel approached his parents, Graham and Karen, asking them how he could explain to people why he acts as he does. Mum Karen, 36, helped him to come up with idea of creating cards to explain
hi behaviour and the youngster now hands them out when he feels the need to. His new cards say: "Stop don't judge me! I'm not naughty or rude. My name is Dan and I am Autistic and I have ADHD. "Life is a challenge and the more people that understand the better it will be.

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