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Bystander Intervention & Adhd

Bystander Intervention & ADHD

Bystander Intervention refers to a pereson's willingness to assist / help someone in need. In the case of a person with ADHD, have you found that they are more likely to do something else or laugh when someone trips over an object and falls (as an example) or will they show concern and try to help?

Adhd and Intervention Bystander

You are thinking of autism. ADHD/ADD does not affect a persons ability to feel compassion or empathy. These may or may not be shown depending on how their parents raised them. It is autism that causes an inability to understand a situation from anothers point of view and may there fore cause them to stand by when some one else near them is hurt or in danger. Usually they don't even know what to do when they themselves are hurt or in danger, and may not even see the danger threatening them.