Adults with ODD

From my last post I was wondering about what happens when a child with ODD grows up. Some of the questions I have asked include:

• Does this child still have ODD when they grow up?
• Does the family have to cope a different way than how its suggest to cope when they are a child?
• Does ODD slowly disappear in a person or does it get worse as they get older?

To help answer my questions I asked my family member if she believes that her son that is now 21 still has ODD and how the family copes with it. She said that he likes to do what he wants and when its not his choice he can get angry. Once he's angry he likes to have his space. He will walk off to cool down. She said that she believes he still has ODD but she wasn't sure. To follow what she was telling me I went online to see if I could find any information that supported the actions she had pointed out.

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/9139.html

After reading a couple websites I had found this one. This website interested me because it says that as adults they are relentless when someone says they are wrong. That they tend to feel misunderstood and disliked. These were things that she had mentioned and that I have seen by being near him. The website also suggests that ODD is related to ADHD and ADHD medication and anger-management classes maybe helpful to manage the symptoms.

This article has made me wonder why I don't hear much about ODD. There were multiple websites, blogs, or comments that I had read where people mentioned there wasn't much information about adults with ODD. I'm wondering why this is when this article suggested ways to cope with it. It brings into question the experience of the people who are writing these articles when there isn't much written on it.