Hi Jenny,
I know there is supposed to be a link with ADHD, which is common in boys, and I think my son probably suffers. He did very badly at school but was brilliant with computer programming, so at 17 was working for a big corporation earning good money. He was obsessed and really wanted to do it, we worried he was too young, but he had no other options that he would look at and didn’t want to do A levels. He worked very hard and then got burned-out at around 24. He has only just told me that he had a coke habit at 22, which I had no idea about. I guess that was the start and he progressed from there. Until then he was the sensible one in his circle, he had a nice car, no license points, didn’t drink when he went out – it makes it so hard to think of all of that and where we are now.