Thanks Jonty30. I'll read the rest of the article when I finish my ice cream and stream a couple episodes of some TV shows. And I have to call my doctor. Oh, and check stocks.
What some call ADHD, I call multitasking. ;^)
If I have a single objective that needs to be met, I can work on that objective once I'm into it pretty much forever and I will forego sleep and eating and other bodily needs that I don't feel the need to do in order to get it done.
One application is perhaps, if your child has ADHD, take all his homework away from him except one subject and he has to finish subject before you give him the next one, until he has completed it.
Spanking seemed to work fine for my kids (something I needed, but didn’t get, by the way), but I realize other kids have different needs. In any case taking them to shrinks will leave a paper trail that can only come back to haunt them.
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However, I'm wondering why then ADHD isn't more prevalent among females, since it is the females who (generally speaking) were responsible for "gathering," while the males were in charge of "hunting."
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ADHD and Aspergers runs in my family. It is a more complicated situation than it is typically characterized as. It wasn’t even recognized as a disorder until the 1960s. My cousin who had characteristics similar to myself was put on medication. My dad who has the same type of personality didn’t believe this was a good idea... and I kind of agree with him.
My grandson who is a genius was put on medication and I feel it changed his personality in a negative way.
Can you imagine how Nicola Tesla would have been medically treated if he had been born just 20 ago? Nicola was a brilliant but rather strange young man. Literally creating and playing with Ball Lighting was one of his favorite passtimes. He had no one looking out for his business interests. Didn’t Westinghouse and Thomas Edison steal many of his ideas?
I always viewed what is called ADHD as normal behavior in many kids that are just bored and big pharma saw a new disease they could create and drugs to supposedly solve it.
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Attention Deficit is a misnomer. They have a surfeit of attention, but need to learn how to focus that concentration. ADHD can be honed to provide heightened awareness, but also can be left untrained, leaving the mind scattered across too many subjects at once.
Thanks Jonty30. I'll read the rest of the article when I finish my ice cream and stream a couple episodes of some TV shows. And I have to call my doctor. Oh, and check stocks.
What some call ADHD, I call multitasking. ;^)
Well that certainly makes sense that it would help foraging as people started ... oh look a squirrel!!
