Background. School-age children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have difficulties in interpersonal relationships, in addition to impaired facial expression perception and recognition. For successful social interactions, the ability to discriminate between familiar and unfamiliar faces is critical.
Difficulty with task management and finishing projects are all too common with ADHD. Difficulty remembering names? This is also a sign of inattention, a common symptom in ADHD. Many social issues follow adults with ADHD.
Atypical processing of emotional facial expressions, particularly anger and other negative expressions, has been observed among children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Prosopagnosia (also known as face blindness or facial agnosia) is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces. The term comes from the Greek words for “face” and “lack of knowledge.”
There is another condition that, though not specific to autism, appears to be quite common in autistic population. This neurological disorder is called prosopagnosia, or face blindness. People suffering from this condition have trouble recognizing people's faces.
Results: People with dyslexia are impaired in their recognition of faces and other visually complex objects. Their holistic processing of faces appears to be intact, suggesting that dyslexics may instead be specifically impaired at part-based processing of visual objects.
Recent research suggests that children with ADHD may show specific impairments related to processing of other's eye gaze. For example, children with ADHD often fail to attend to others' eyes during emotion recognition [15] and are not using others' gaze direction to guide their attention [16].
There are five things that children and adults with attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD) have trouble regulating: attention, hyperactivity, impulsivity, organization, and emotionality.
Adults with ADHD may find it difficult to focus and prioritize, leading to missed deadlines and forgotten meetings or social plans. The inability to control impulses can range from impatience waiting in line or driving in traffic to mood swings and outbursts of anger.
Untreated ADHD in adults can lead to mental health disorders like anxiety and depression. This is because ADHD symptoms can lead to focus, concentration, and impulsivity problems. When these problems are not managed effectively, they can lead to feelings of frustration, irritability, and low self-esteem.
It is essential to realize that people with ADHD are generally emotionally sensitive and may have strong feelings of shame, preventing them from seeking the medical help they need. Aside from medications, allowing the person to process their emotions before a meltdown is a healthy way to help them cope with rejection.
If you hide your adult ADHD symptoms from other people, that's called masking. Basically, you're trying to seem more “normal” or “regular.” ADHD causes some people to act hyperactive or impulsive. It makes other folks have trouble paying attention. And still other adults have a combination of those symptoms.
As we've discussed, unfortunately, many people with ADHD tend to have a lack of empathy. This can be addressed, though, through identifying and communicating about each other's feelings. If you see a disconnect between ADHD and empathy in your child or in your spouse, don't give up hope.
Many people with ADHD experience a physical hypersensitivity to a variety of things, including touch. Being hypersensitive may mean that stimulation of their genitals might be uncomfortable or even painful in someone with ADHD. This sensitivity may also extend to other senses as well.
These are all symptoms of Inattentive-Type ADHD; they are not personal defects. A student with inattentive ADHD may quietly stare out the window while her work goes unfinished; this 'spacey' or 'daydreamy' behavior is overlooked or mischaracterized as laziness or apathy.
Or you meet someone, and then down the road, you recognize their face but cannot recall their name? Well, you are not alone; this is very common. The everyday experience of encountering a well-known person and not being able to identify them is a common form of paramnesia (a disorder of memory).
Relatively mild cases are limited to facial recognition; more serious cases extend the recognition problem to other objects of everyday life. Social isolation and depression are two frequent responses to prosopagnosia.
Everyone is hard-wired to recognize faces, but only a select few meet the 'super-recognizer' criteria. If you have an uncanny knack for remembering people's faces, even if you've only met them briefly or seen them in passing, you might be what's known as a "super-recognizer."
They tend to be self-focused on what they believe to be important and have trouble with external rules and cues. Emotional Turmoil – A characteristic of this disorder is that a child has trouble processing and expressing their emotions. This can lead to outbursts as these children attempt to express how they feel.