Replies

Because we all know that good parents only raise perfect angels for children.

Only a "classic liberal" would make such a statement. It is learned early on in Liberal Basic Training that responsibility is something to be placed elsewhere. If you are overly impulsive, I am sorry to hear that, but what pill or shot or holistic treatment is going to make you better able to control yourself? I submit none! Maybe if mommy or daddy or the guy mommy was shacking up with had put a boot in your A$$ when you were growing up you would have learned some self control. Good luck with the pills, do they have anything to help me balance my checkbook?

I think one of the big issues here is breaking this whole issue down into ADD/ADHD in adults and "children" and I say that in quotes because 11 and 14 and 17 year olds should not be diagnosed in the same way.

Regardless, I can say that I have it, in fact looking back I've had it since at least high school.

One of the classic symptoms is the ability to do well and in fact outshine your peers when under pressure or stress.

for the last 14 years I have done very well professionally, but looking back on those 14 years I realized how destructive the constant pressure and stress was. Not overall life stress but situation to situation. My major success in life was always professional, otherwise I was a classic loner type so I took extra pride in how well I did on the professional side of life.
It got to the point due to age where I simply couldn't get some project done running on stress alone.

I saw a doctor, got a pill and it's night and day. I feel it, my parents see it and every friend of mine sees it.

maybe ADD/ADHD is a chicken or the egg problem, where it's some sort of mental "evolution" (that should cause some fun) due to the way our culture is now structured with massive amounts of media stimulation.

I think a society of say 100 years ago where you could go for a walk or read a book amounted to mental stimulation.

just my $.02

Only a "classic liberal" would make such a statement.

I see you found my about page, and you're as ignorant about liberalism, as you are about ADHD. Friedrich Hayek, Margret Thacher, and the great Lord Acton are all on my side.

. . . but what pill or shot or holistic treatment is going to make you better able to control yourself?

To be specific? In my case it's Methylphenidate. And I'm not the only one, it's proven to reduce implusivity by about 60% in most studies of people diagnosed with ADHD.

Maybe if mommy or daddy or the guy mommy was shacking up with had put a boot in your A$$ when you were growing up you would have learned some self control.

Now I have to wonder if I'm not the only one who needs to get hold of his/her impulses. You have no idea how many boots I got in my arse growing up.

Good luck with the pills, do they have anything to help me balance my checkbook?

I'm not sure, the pills won't teach you arithmetic, you're on your own for that one. But they might help you to focus on the task long enough to get it done.

And I have to know, you really think perfect parents make perfect children? Because if you do, I'll have to roll my eyes back into my head again.

His mommy "shacking up"?

Anybody old enough to know that term is too effing old and stupid to be allowed on this thread. OF COURSE they're ain't no durned thing like that ADD or ADHHDD or whatever it is they talkin' about these days. Why, in my day, if a feller couldn't pay no attention, we just hit him or shot him or both.

You should be embarrassed and ashamed, you dumb asshole.