[bella1]

I've never "beat the snot" out of anyone, and I never have believed that ADD is a disease and never will. Yes there are children with true mental deficiencies, always have been, but there is a huge difference between that and behavior problems, which is mostly what ADD/ADHD is a result of. There is no way that in a classroom of say 24 or so children that 10 of them have a "disease", but that is what the popular culture of today wants us to believe. Interestingly, many of my daughter's former high school classmates (now ages 24-25) went to college to become special education teachers because there is such a "need" for them. I love nothing more than to talk with them now after some of them have been teaching special ed for a few years. Funny, but their opinions are that most of these kids just need a good turning over the knee.... and this from the generation that grew up believing that ADD was a "disease".

[Toby06]

I never have believed that ADD is a disease and never will.

I stopped reading right there. You are wrong, and your posts here are ignorant. Good bye.

[najida]

ADD is real....

Just like some diseases didn't have names 100 years ago, just cuz it's finally named, doesn't mean it isn't real or valid.

[najida]

Look,
one of the first things an ADD'er will tell you is that they resent that it is over diagnosed and 'trendy' in some settings. It not only does a terrible diservice to those who really have it, but screw up the majority who don't have it, and need a different intervention.