Ruth Thomson knew there was something wrong when, at aged four, one of her twin sons started to spit at the dinner ladies. The mum-of-three had used all the good parenting techniques to try and tame Robin, but to no avail. "I just couldn't work out why the techniques worked with Andrew but not with his twin brother Robin," says Ruth.
Robin was diagnosed as having Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) when he was five, but not before a stressful and difficult couple of years. "We were told it was our fault," reveals Ruth, from central Scotland, who has just launched her own parents' support group called Ecosse Adders. "You do start to ask if it is something that you are doing. But, barring battering the living daylights out of our son, we couldn't have been any stricter."
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