Dr. Russell Barkley revealed the terrifying truth about ADHD that changes everything parents think they know: By age 5, most kids develop an internal voice — the “mind’s voice” — that lets them talk to themselves, follow rules, and control impulses. In ADHD, that voice is weak or missing... entirely. Young children with ADHD literally don’t have the same private self-talk neurotypical kids use by first or second grade. They can’t “tell themselves” what to do. They can’t internalize instructions, rules, or consequences the way other children can. Watch any typical classroom: kids quietly mutter to themselves, guiding their own behavior. That’s the mind’s voice developing — and it’s what allows them to stop, think, and regulate. In ADHD, it never fully arrives — or it’s too faint to work. That’s why “just listen” or “just stop” feels impossible: there’s no reliable internal voice to enforce it. Barkley: “They can’t internalize the rules… because everything I just said requires a voice in your head, and they don’t have that.” This isn’t laziness, defiance, or poor parenting. It’s a profound developmental delay in the brain’s self-regulation system — as serious as many other neurodevelopmental disorders. If you have (or work with) a child with ADHD, does this suddenly make their “impossible” behavior click into place?show more

It isn’t terrifying. Stop that nonsense. They have strengths in other areas. They have gifts. The problem is we take a one size fits all approach, which is both lazy and convenient.

@Euniqueje BULLSHIT Im diagnosed with ADHD and autism, the voice in my head is very clear… in fact, I don’t know one person with ADHD who doesn’t have an internal voice.

As someone who works in Psychiatry, I would push back on describing it as a "terrifying truth." Something to be aware of? Yes. Something to act on? Yes. But there is enough fear around ADHD already without feeding it with this kind of language.

I disagree in part. I believe it develops more slowly and is often strongly quite loud and negative, with ruminations of shame and self accusation.

Literally none of what is written here or said is true. At all.

First of all, it’s usually Autistic. Second, it’s an EXCELLENT defence against the Dark Arts of the Freudian Neurotic Analytics. Every collective needs someone with an immunity to Hurrah/Boo tactics. These kids simply learn Ethics especially when words and actions don’t match.

Yet another psychiatrist trying to tell us we are ill. And all for money and status

“Terrifying”. Its not terrifying, nobody screamed and cried. Its was knowledge - enlightening and freeing, not terrifying. If i were you i wouldn’t read the encyclopedia. At least dont do it when you’re alone in case need comforting.

BS. Maybe get some one that actually has it to make such claims. Sick of these know it alls trying to tell me what’s up. I have had internal dialogue since day one.

I question this. Diagnosed ADHD and was talking to my self at 3 - considered early. I had a strong internal dialogue throughout my childhood. Then again, I was considered a high IQ ADHD which makes it a superpower when harnessed. Low IQ, I can see it being something else. Hogwash

ADHD is Trauma symptom Of disregulated nervous system It is not genetic And can be cured

What’s the evidence for this @Grok?

So what can one do?

Just think - 🤔 Most of this Autism is just poisoning of our human body systems from vaccines & food products. We live in a diabolical time. The JudeoMasonic Bolshevik Eugenics Vampires must be STOPPED.

All of these posts tell us how awful this is and seems so doom and gloom. Yet, so many successful people have ADD/ADHD. So, tell me a solution. If all of this is true, how do I help my 15 year old son?

Is the inner voice delayed or missing entirely? At what point does the inner voice establish itself? I’ve read ADHD children are a couple years behind. True or no?

I know he’s considered “The Grandfather” of ADHD education, but his talks are so depressing, fatalistic and full of doom. Rarely have I heard him be optimistic or offer positive insight.

This is a vast generalization.

@grok Ethically, from a first-world US perspective, what could be done for someone with ADHD to tap their insula usage into a potential inner monologue triangulation? For example, forcing severe-concurrent ego fragmentation (Carl Jung perspective) would be unethical.

How was this measured I wonder, the inner voice?

@Grok. Are there any treatments for this that differ from the ol amphetamine standby?

Lots of explaining but not a lot of solutions

Lovely. Barkley just described ADHD. Where is the part where he describes how childhood vaccines absolutely disrupts neurons which exhibit symptoms such as ADHD and worse?

If you’re struggling to sleep, this should help you. It helped me overcome insomnia

bullshit

@grok what is the solution

ADHD = npc 📝 got it

ADHD is actually a super power. We can’t she controlled lol

Bullshit.

“They can’t” is a disgraceful claim from the old fear paradigm.

Based on what research? If a child learns language they develop self talk. If they are born deaf, they do not. ADHD does not affect the DMN or the Verbal centers in the brain. Now self restraint that is a function of the prefrontal cortex.

This would not be common except maybe in very extreme cases. What he describes is very common in narcissists.

weird i have adhd and i have an internal voice, hell i over think all the time thinking of how a scenario can play out that i end up crippling my self with possibilities

If this is true, it just means that people with ADHD are NPCs in the simulation; they have no autonomy over their programming.