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. No learning disabilities, no A* whatever. Never on any drugs .
At 37 years old, he is normal and without any psychosis what-so-ever. Just wonder what he would be like if we had accepted what all the experts had wanted us to do and drugged him?
OMG, doc, how 1950’s of you! ;)
I heard on the radio last week they now have a new “abc” disorder...for day dreaming and mind wandering. I’m doomed, I’m afraid.
Love it.. you did just the right thing. There was a time when this was the normal course for families and now they push an alternative reality with drugs.
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.
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.
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.