Another question for all of you. Do those of you with ADHD spouses/ boy/girl/friends notice a difficulty in their ability to express the proper emotion with the correlating words/actions? and do they understand what they are doing with this? My ADHD husband does not show many emotions that I "normally" display with ease, but since he won't discuss it with me, I don't know what to think. Anyway, when your significant other says they "love and appreciate you", is it said with the correlating facial expressions or bodily gestures that typically go with it? My DH has ALWAYS had trouble expressing "love" emotions. Doesn't say, "I love you", "no hugs", "no kisses", and often times, would pull away when I would go to hug and kiss him. We've all talked about the "touching" aspects, and how they recoil from certain touches. But what about the facial and verbal tone of voice expressions of love, sadness, joy, tenderness, playfulness (without being silly), etc? I'd appreciate any input on this.
Showing appropriate emotions
Submitted by dedelight4 on 05/06/2014.
Yes! But I don't know if
Submitted by MFrances on
Yes! But I don't know if that's an ADHD trait or just a poor trait in a lot of people. I think a lot of people just have trouble showing and expressing emotions, especially ment. But I think with ADHD, it makes sense too. My husband can't see that when he takes a certain stance and has a certain expression on his face that my daughter prepares herself to get yelled at. Then he'll say he wasn't going to yell (which he was) and then I'll say, if you could see yourself and read body language you would think that too. His words constantly do not match his actions. I think it's interesting that autism, ADHD, OCD, Tourette's, anxiety, and sensory processing disorder all affect the same part of the brain.