Posted on 05/19/2022 11:51:21 AM PDT by Kaslin
ADHD and some autistic behaviors are actually normal reactions to tyranny. The school needs to identify these folks and medicate them so they won’t rebel against the state in the future.
They’ve stretched Austic to include just about every type of behavior there is.
My 2nd son was diagnosed with ADHD early on, and refused meds. He would put tests in his desk rather than turning them in. He got poor grades.
Even now (he’s a Computer Science major in college) he doesn’t know that Thurs comes after Tues or that June comes after May (”executive functioning issues”), but he’s a ranked chess player and fabulous coder and self-taught great ragtime piano player. It’s about pattern recognition. He’s “neurodivergent,” as they say.
I’m moving him out of his dorm tomorrow for the summer and I can’t wait to see him! ADHD is frustrating for him and others; it’s too bad he refused meds as they would have helped him I think but at this point he’s an adult and can make his own decisions. . .
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there is no ADHD, there are only boys being boys, getting fidgety at the schools that were adjusted to make it easier for girls.
This began to escalate back in the 1990s. As I recall, schools got extra funding for each diagnosis.
Does that sound familiar in the Age of Plandemic ($13,000/diagnosis; $39,000/intubation)?
True, and for the past 25+ years nothing has been done.
Of course they are. They get more gubmint $$ for every indoctrinee diagnosed.
Hell, schools are contributing to an increase in gender-dysphoria
Why wouldn’t the contribute to something simple like ADHD diagnosis?
That is why I find Myers-Briggs useful: SP [Sensing/Perceiving] types do not like sitting still and passively learning via lecture. (The SJ [Sensing/Judging] types love it - and most teachers are SJs.)
SPs prefer being active, especially with their hands. The pure types go become soldiers, artisans, athletes, racecar drivers, airplane pilots.
SPs do much better in a trade-school environment, especially with apprenticeship. That approach was almost completely eliminated in America.
Because the FIX - as in so many things today - is ill and truly IN.
Public Schools are the 10th plank in Marx’s communist manifesto. “Why” is no longer taught.
Recently we interviewed a female student from the local high school regarding her grant submission. She told us she had been diagnosed with a learning disability. She also stated ‘well, everyone has a learning disability’. Her disability: she did not like to learn in a crowded environment.
This country is in real trouble.
My son with ADHD (I have it, too) started medication at the age of 9 at the doctor’s suggestion. By the time he was 15 he decided no more, and refused to take it. I had tried the meds, too. They were less effective than I had wished. I kept needing to increase the dosages, and then to deal with the anxiety it produced, upped the antidepressants, too. After many years of treatment, which never worked, I was weaned off of the antidepressant and the ADHD meds. I feel 100% better. Real life is real life, and there are no easy answers. Medication made things worse for both of us. So don’t fault your son, and don’t think that meds are a panacea. They are not. I’m so glad he has found ways to succeed that suit him.
Like racism. Like misogyny, like homophobia. Like...well. You get the drift.
They’ve been doing that for decades.
Your kid has ADHD/ADD….put them on meds
Want kids to listen more, fidget less? Try more recess... this school did
https://www.today.com/today/amp/tdna65536
Four times a day, the doors of Eagle Mountain Elementary in Fort Worth, Texas, fling open to let bouncy, bubbly, excited kindergarteners and first-graders pounce onto the playground.
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Five months into the experiment, McBride’s fears had been alleviated. Her students are less fidgety and more focused, she said. They listen more attentively, follow directions and try to solve problems on their own instead of coming to the teacher to fix everything. There are fewer discipline issues.
Yep. When my brother enrolled my nephew in junior high at his new school the only thing they were concerned with was 1) was he low income and 2) was he special ed. When my brother said no to both, they more or less pressured him on the low income, telling him he didn’t have to provide any documentation, just say he was. He told them he can pay for his own kid’s lunches and informed them if anything, he’d be looking as Honor’s courses. And that was the end of that.
My son’s first grade teacher told us at a parent teacher conference that we needed to put my son on ADHD meds. Made a huge deal out of it because “he is always going.” Got school psychologists and Heads of Division people all involved.
We went to pediatrician for an opinion. The doctor said he didn’t have it and that teachers say it all the time to calm the classroom and because schools get extra money (even private schools like he was in) from government agencies if they report ADHD numbers.
She also said that first grade is far too young to even consider medicine. And not to give it to him.
We never allowed the meds.
Son became a 12 letter athlete in high school, Eagle Scout, President of Senior Class, Honor Roll student, and Boy’s State Scholarship winner in high school.
Got his Pilot’s License at 18.
Now a Dean’s List student at a Top 30 college and plays hockey where they won their D3 conference this past year.
Parents need to think long and hard before they allow people with an agenda to do that to a kid.
Some kids are just wired to run faster than others.
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