Subjects that will trigger boatloads of uninformed hoo-hah on FR include:
Pit bulls (it ain't the animal, it's the person that raised it); reporters and "automatic" weapons (hey, the AP got an esoteric fact wrong on a rare weapon, so the whole report is biased; circumcision (it's barbaric and kills all sensation...and gives the "victims" of it something to bitch about their whole adult lives); and of course ADD and ADHD (it ain't the animal, it's the person that raised it).
Even if there were scientific and medical evidence proving the existence of these conditions (as there is, by the way), 80 percent of the people here discount them out of hand--as a conspiracy from the MSM, the NEA, Big Pharm and Big Med (where do they meet, to work out the details--and do they ever get into squabbles, with other, overlapping conspiracies?).
Why can't this be a reasonable assumption: the conditions are real, but sadly they are much overdiagnosed in our society. Didn't anyone here every have a brother, uncle or cousin who "just couldn't stay with anything"--couldn't keep a job, friends, often didn't finish things? For those of you who say, It's the way the parents raised him...uh, why were his sisters and/or brothers successful, and he wasn't? Did the parents raise three kids right...but dropped the ball on this one? A lifetime of failing gets hammeered into a person over years, and soon enough, he lives right up to everyone's low expectations.
I checked out the expert from the article--she seems incomprehensible to me.
I'll leave you all with two thoughts:
If the condition doesn't exist...why the hell is she curing it?
How is that so many people on this forum can be reasonable and intelligent one moment, but the second that their particular trigger-issue comes up, they turn into knuckle-dragging ignoramuses?
It's not my fault, it's my parents. Is there a pill I can take for this condition?????