Mikey's ADHD/ADD

[Vicky82]

I thought I start a thread on this as alot of people here don't know the full details about ADHD/ADD and keep blaming the writers on treating Mikey badly and think that ADHD/ADD is just an excuse.

First off the writers are doing a great job, they are doing their homework on ADHD and other things that link with ADHD.

They are trying to get the message out there to the world that ADHD is a metal disorder and that millions of children do suffer with it. People who don't know about the condition, blame the parents and think it's a stupid excuse.

Seriously people, you need to do your homework and read up about ADHD/ADD.

Here's few things that connect Mikey with ADHD, I posted this a few months ago in another thread.

“zoning out” without realizing it (I’m pretty sure we’ve seen him do this at least once)
extreme distractibility; wandering attention makes it hard to stay on track
tendency to overlook details, leading to errors or incomplete work
poor listening skills; hard time remembering conversations and following directions
hyperfocusing (we’ve seen him do this a little with pizza and comics)
poor organizational skills (his room is very messy and cluttered)
constantly losing or misplacing things (we’ve seen this happen at least once IIRC)
blurt out thoughts that are rude or inappropriate without thinking (being brutally honest while under pressure to keep the truth a secret)
have addictive tendencies (pizza)
act recklessly or spontaneously without regard for consequences
sense of underachievement
hypersensitivity to criticism
low self-esteem and sense of insecurity
getting bored easily
trouble sitting still; constant fidgeting
We’ve seen Mikey struggle with this (and start to admit defeat a little, IMO, considering how increasingly noticeable his low self-esteem has become), and try to desperately improve himself to impress his brothers. But they aren’t paying attention because they’re still stuck with their tunnel vision of him.

posted this in the Casey Jones vs The Underworld thread to explain Mikey's behavior in the episode.

Mikey's behaviour in this episode was due to eating the Cheese balls and he became really hyper. Why? because of Red Dye 42 was in them. Red Dye 42 is mentioned in the episode and it was on the Cheeseball package too.

Red Dye 42 is actually a reference to Red Dye 40, it's a food colouring. Apparently it's mentioned a lot in health news sites they say Red Dye 40 causes health problems and cause hyperactivity in kids especially kids with ADHD and experts want FDA to ban foods containing them.

So thats why Mikey was acting so hyper in the episode because of the Red Dye in the Cheesballs and I applaud the writers for doing there homework on this.

Just put Red Dye 40 in the search engine you come up with results.

So you need to pay attention to the little details in the show, they can end up being really important.