Posted on 04/22/2014 9:24:11 PM PDT by rickmichaels
By the time they reach high school, nearly 20 percent of all American boys will be diagnosed with ADHD. Millions of those boys will be prescribed a powerful stimulant to "normalize" them. A great many of those boys will suffer serious side effects from those drugs. The shocking truth is that many of those diagnoses are wrong, and that most of those boys are being drugged for no good reason—simply for being boys. It's time we recognize this as a crisis.
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The agendas of druggies of the past who became chemists, physicians, psychologists, politicians and educators ruined the dreams of many thinking people who would otherwise have loved to have children.
My son was diagnosed with ACHD, ADH all sorts of alphabet problems ... my wife and I decided to ignore all and treat him as normal. Guess what? He turned out normal.
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I attended school 1948-60. If there had been such a thing as these ADD, ADHD, et al, diagnoses back then, then probably 30-50% of the boys in school would have been required to be drugged (including me). We kids were just being normal and were either bored with the classes or otherwise distracted.
I had to attend Summer school to make up classes three times and made straight A’s in the courses there, because they were only about 8 weeks long and got to the meat of the subjects, instead of the length regular terms that were boring. After the Navy, I earned an AAS, BBA and MBA, while working full time and raising a family.
I only know of a couple of boys who committed serious acts later in high school. ...The rest of us turned out quite normal.
There will come a time when today’s psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies, who so profit by pushing their stimulants and serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors will be seen for the horrifying immoral savages that they are.
The plain fact is that what leftist-minded school admins call abnormal behavior by boys is in fact NORMAL!!! behavior. Boys were not designed to sit quietly at attention in their desks for eight hours a day listening to some adult drone on. If Ritalin had been around when I was going to school fifty years ago, they'd had me on it. Because I daydreamed my way through most of grade school and high school. I managed to eventually graduate from college, thank you very much, without doing school-authorized drugs.
Thanks Doc, I’m 38, and like your son if my parents had listened to the schools etc, I’d of been in big trouble by now. I’m a well adjusted Christian conservative, well employed, and have a family of my own. Wait a second, my modern standards I guess I failed heh.
I have one son and two girls, and nobody is giving them drugs, it’ll have to be over my dead body.
I’m putting my kids in Christian school this fall, I don’t care what it costs.
If men are different from women, then boys are different from girls. I think there should be two systems of education. Unfortunately feminists think they are men.
As my boys got older and one of them was “diagnosed” with ADD I did the old school method. We started going to the range more often and burning ammo, hunting and fishing more, and putting things in his hands like post-hole diggers, chainsaws, and saddle leather. I worked it out of him and he is a successful, college grad, 2 Afghan tour combat Marine now in the private sector.
Well worth the cost especially if you have boys.
The teacher at a private Christian school told me she thoght my son had ADD and that he was cheating on spelling tests because he always got 100%.
I knew he wasn’t cheating because I always tested him the night before the spelling tests.
I had him tested in the public school, and they found out he was gifted.
I’ve had problems with both public and private schools.
Bertrand Russell was an Atheist....so I “think” he thought of humans in “just animal” terms, in the Wundtian sense.....the masses are dangerous, if not herded, controlled and culled and drugged. The ideas and perceptions of the masses have to be totally controlled (Most humans are naturally dumb) and the gifted elite have to guide and control them.
All Postmodernists are irrational, and contradictions are all over the map.
Utopian Marxists want to make “Happy” slaves.....people that are so ignorant of the concepts of freedom, that they accept their “place” assigned to them by their masters.....Like in “Brave New World”. Happiness is an artificial construct devoid of Reality. They take “happy” pills.
We lasted two weeks in public school this year. Now I home school. It’s worth it.
Fantastic! There are so many good resources now to homeschool. All the best to you and your son.
First off, doc, good on you both for ignoring the BS.
However, if your son is 37, he misswed the current era where if you fail to comply, Social Services will step in and not only remove the child form the home (and medicate them) but will charge you with Child Abuse or Neglect. The charges boil down to he said-she said level of evidentiary requirements, and in front of a judge who sympathizes with Social Services or is constrained by laws which pretty much force them to order compliance or convict, you can be between a rock and a hard place.
We make our children, grandchildren, even great-grandchildren aware of this at the earliest they can grasp the concept, and tell them to ALWAYS tell us if the Social Serpents come snooping.
One relative removed her child from a Parochial School because the school had had the child interviewed by the Social Services people without notifying the parents before or after the interview. When confronted the Principal (a woman) said what she did was legal. She was told that Abortion was legal, too, but that doesn't make it right, and that deception of any kind would not be tolerated.
The child changed schools that day.
I agree that is the reason, but would maintain no good will come of it. Still not a ‘good’ reason, more a diabolical one.
While the latter is in full swing, the former has been awfully lax in some instances, even to the point of removing deviant behaviours from the list of disorders.
Up is down, day is night...
There are no (0) empirical studies of the effects of psychoactive drugs on children or adolescents. Not one company would risk the liability. Every ‘professional’ who prescribes these medications does so in defiance of the hippocratic oath and every reasonable protocol.
The fallacy that federal agencies protect the public interest is proven false on a daily basis by the FDA and its cohorts. I am opposed to drug legalization for a variety of reasons, but am more opposed to government agencies that are not restrained by law, science or morality.
I would prefer if my wife would homeschool, but I don’t think she thinks she can do it. She has the time, that’s for sure.
Something like this is also a good place to start for a built-in homeschool community: http://www.classicalconversations.com/. I haven’t joined it, but I’m considering it. I have a co-op lined up for my children for next school year.
Thank you for that information and the link. I’ll be checking that out more in depth later.
I thought about a co-op too if I can find something along those lines here.
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