Hi everyone

About 5 years ago, my ADHD son went to live with his father because he missed him. Contact between my son and I stopped three years ago through his own choice after he had a temper tantrum (part of his ADHD.)

His father is now having difficulties coping with him, as my son is very unpredictable behaviourally and can change in a split second, from being an angel, to being very aggressive and violent. He is 13 years old.

I am shortly going to be assessed by UK Social Services to see if I am a viable full time carer for him. I know he is definitely Sugar Sensitive, not only from his similar symptoms to how I was on sugars, but also before he left my care before, he was on step one for a month (with the approval of the School Headteacher who I had given a copy of PnP to read) and his class teachers were not informed he was changing his diet. After a couple of weeks maximum, they asked me what I had done to him, because he was a completely different child in the mornings, he was no longer disrupting the class by swearing, refusing to work, or hiding under the desks. I have the knowledge obviously of the things that changed for him then and the things that have changed in myself since being off sugar, but he has educational problems, for example, he can read almost up to his age ability but reads the letters, and words,but asked to explain the story, doesn't have a clue about it. Therefore he sees the letters,reads them, but isn't understanding them. He also has communication problems.

Can anyone tell me if these could be symptoms of ADD, assuming ADD is symptoms additional to the Sugar Sensitivity ones, and can anyone tell me from their own experience with ADD or their children's, what sort of things have changed since they did the food?

Many thanks for any responses.

Love

Jane
xx