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TexasCajun wrote:
The statement was hyperbole, the point being parents are being told by their doctors that their toddlers and grade-schoolers have a this or that condition that requires a lifetime of medication.
I can only imagine if some of the worlds most productive and smartest people had been told they were not normal and began medication to suppress the undesired ‘condition’.

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Interesting..it may explain why a majority of children diagnosed with Autism come from extremely intelligent and mostly conservative parents.

RE: ". . . parents are being told by their doctors that their toddlers and grade-schoolers have a this or that condition that requires a lifetime of medication.

"I can only imagine if some of the worlds most productive and smartest people had been told they were not normal and began medication to suppress the undesired ‘condition’."

Yes, that is interesting and it is one of the points Savage was making and has made for years, I've heard it expressed regularly over the years: It's a good thing for us that they were not forced to begin medication. Another group he talks about are just plain disruptive children being misdiagnosed.

I heard the broadcast and I've heard him speak on this subject several times over the years. It is what he's talking about; to wit, the effects of misdiagnoses either because of lack of knowledge or on purpose. It is that group that was the subject of his tirade and always has been over the years.