To: thoughtomator
While I believe that 90%+ of ADD diagnoses may be incorrect, looking to history to disprove its reality doesn't hold water. There is a great deal of evidence to suggest a connection between our modern, information-based society, and problematic effects of ADD. In other words, it has probably always existed, but caused little trouble in societies where most people earned their livings via manual labor, and few were expected to spend much time at "book-learning".
Just 150-200 years ago in this country, most boys attended school only sporadically (often only for a couple of months in the dead of winter), and rarely beyond the age of 14-15. They were needed to perform manual labor on the family farm, or to take manual labor jobs in industry to help support their families and themselves.
To: GovernmentShrinker
If the cause is in fact information-based society, that strongly reinforces the idea that ADD is behavioral and not medical at its source.
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04/29/2003 11:10:43 AM PDT by
thoughtomator
(US Gov't says: Mind-altering drugs are evil except when used to pacify toddlers)
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