Posted on 03/18/2014 10:29:27 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
The child would daydream in class, his elementary-school teachers said. He often just didn’t pay attention the way they would have liked. This was before the age of prevalent ADHD diagnoses and Ritalin, so no remedy was at hand, either. If one had been, though, who knows what he might have been?
Perhaps not co-valedictorian of his school — which he was.
I was that child. And were I attending school today and especially if my behavior had been worse, it’s likely I’d have received that fashionable diagnosis. And why not? It seems everyone now could have ADHD.
This point is made by Dr. Richard Saul, who has been practicing behavioral neurology for 50 years and is the author of the new book ADHD Does Not Exist. In a March 14 Time piece he writes:
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adhd has always been a war on boys. almost all kids on it are boys, 6 out of seven. pushed by docs, shrinks, parents, teachers, drug companies and goverment.
As much as I abhor these idiots who, without the slightest experience or training or education, think they know that ADD is fake, I have certainly encountered ADD or Asperger’s diagnoses used as a way of stifling dissent.
hardly. if you have ever used corporal punishment on your kids or someone you love, you totally hate having to do it. if you liked it then yes you have a problem.
LOL!
it isn’t a surprise at all, it is the norm for teachers. not big boobs, the intelligence level.
i dated one in college. they had one of the easiest schedule of courses of just about any other major i knew. i was in electrical/computer engineering and she always said she’d never be able to do that, my classes were way too hard. i was always amazed at the assignments she was given that she claimed were so hard to do.
only people who had an easier time in general, were the journalism majors.
good for you
I have to warn you 3rd grade is a watershed for ADHD kids- the demands start to stress their abilities, so don’t say “never” about providing medical support
Also be prepared to have the school put in place an IEP or a 504 plan to make some accommodations
Having an Occupational therapist test for sensory dysfunction can also be really useful in providing adaptive therapies
corporal punishmnent cure adhd in asians. and just about evertyone else.
i don’t disagree some kids have brain chemistry problems and may need drugs to help, but most today don’t have brain chemistry problems. they are stamped that because they’re boys being boys, they don’t get proper adult correction early on, and the schools get money for disabled kids - adhd kids - so there’s a money incentive for schools to label kids adhd.
They tried this crap with our son in elementary school...told them to go pound sand...any kid who could sit and flawlessly put together a Lego kit with hundreds of pieces wasn’t ADHD.
We found that he was seated in the back of the class, needed glasses and that he had a slight narrowing of the palate that affected his speech pattern.
All of that was fixed and he went on to be a commander in HS AFJROTC, Eagle Scout, OA Vigil Honor and on the Honor Roll every semester he was eligible.
Too many parents are just too damn lazy to intervene on their children’s behalf and actually be their guardian and parent.
Then apparently the "idiots" do have at least some basis for their suspicions, no?
You can't have it both ways.
or nowadays, homosexual.
“Funny, there was no ADHD when I was a kid. Maybe it’s because there was no Ritalin.”
there sure was lot of cigarette smoking, though, wasn’t there? A form of self medication
it’snot hard for kids to have deficiencies. i had a potassium deficiency as a young child.
I believe a large contributor to lack of focus and ADD-like symptoms in children are video games. I babysat for a neihbor woman a few weeks ago, and her two kids ages 7 (girl) and 9 (boy) completely immersed themselves in some sort of 3-dimensional day-glo world where you fly around and collect game points. I actually had to look away from it since it almost made me nauseated with the bright colors, overload of moving geometric shapes, and computer generated “music”. After a few hours of that, no wonder they can’t concentrate on things like math, spelling, or geography.
yup, i take iodine regularly. thyroid pumps out so many vital chemicals, gotta keep it working well.
My friend also told the school to go to hell. The child is a doctor today.
And now you think this is a one size fits all answer.
A sane person says ADD is occasionally over-diagnosed.
A complete blithering idiot, blowhard know-nothing says ADD is fake.
It was a damn good feeling to look those folks in the eye when our son graduated with Honors and to see the “failure” in theirs...
Good for your friend and their child...it’s as it should be.
Many fit your last sentence, and “liking it” can take other guises than frank sadism.
ijust hope more people learn as they get older, experts don’t know as much as they think they do. if my friend hadn’t been monitoring her young daughter with type i diabetes and right in the room stopping nurses and doctors doing their ‘expert’ treatments, which afterwards she was vindicated on, every time, her daughter would have been dead about twenty times over. she knew her daughter and her disease better. she cared more about her daughter’s health than any of those experts did.
experts are regular people too. make mistakes. believe incorrect things. make errors. ignore things they shouldn’t. have off days. allow stress or fatigue to affect judgment. get kickbacks for promoting certain things. not gods, just people like you and me in most other areas of life. susceptible tothe same weaknesses and failings we all as people, have.
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