[conservativeinbflo.]

ha ha! i love it.
i'm sorry, but i'm with the ADD-is-a-sham group. let's face it, this didn't become a problem until the boomers became parents. women had babies as trophies, not to bring better beings into this world, all the while trying to "break the glass ceiling". Kids can be little spazzes. that's how they are! try disciplining them (i'm sorry, but "time out" is not discipline... neither is buying them a toy to shut them up). my twin brother was a nutty kid growing up, with the attention span of a fig. he didn't need drugs-- he just needed to grow up.

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

They could have drugged you for just bein his brother.

[FourPeas]

this didn't become a problem until the boomers became parents

Whatever you may believe about ADD/ADHD asside, this is wrong. There have been children diagnosed as "hyperactive" for a long, long time. My husband was given stimulants to calm his hyperactivity in the 1960's. His parents are part of the WWII generation. They discliplined; his mom stayed at home; they did not divorce, etc. Neither his brother nor sister exhibited any of the same traits. Although the proliferation of the diagnosis ~may~ be new, the "hyperactive" child certainly isn't.