ADHD question.

[Suave]

I guess you haven't spent enough time around an ADHD child to know!

Well in all fairness he did say 90% of the time. And I'm inclined to agree that children are often misdiagnosed with ADHD. I have personally met people who were told, and believed that they had, ADHD. Mostly because they were very outgoing, active, ancy, talkative and somewhat rebellious. Characteristics that really have nothing to do with ADHD. They really didn't even know what ADHD was and none of them had ever undergone the more definitive diagnostic exams. Like I said earlier, I think that changing the name of the syndrome from ADD to ADHD was a bad idea because it reinforces the misconception that ADHD=hyperactivity.

I've only ever met one person who I thought had the real pathological deal. But that's irrelevant, I've never met anybody who had OCD, autism or asperger's either. Know what that means? Nothing.

Have you noticed that most people who dismiss ADD, or ADHD if you like, don't even know what it is? They'll express their opinion that it's just simply lazy parents, self discipline etc. And I'll realize that they just think it's an attitude problem or a misadjusted personality that will just go away with the right guidance. They don't know that it's a biological malady. 

<edit> BTW 100 years ago adhd was called "minimal brain damage syndrome". A phrase that might turn out to be the most accurate name that the syndrome ever had.

[Simaril]

you'll find I almost always skip reading the remaining posts of yours and others, when I see you opening with faked quotes...and then oddly enough...seeing you answering yourself.

Noted.

Understand I never intended to offend or misquote -- considered it a rhetorical restating. But will abstain from such in the future.


That issue dealt with, any toughts about the substance of the post whose form so annoyed you?

[ZetaNine]

Noted.

Understand I never intended to offend or misquote -- considered it a rhetorical restating. But will abstain from such in the future.


That issue dealt with, any toughts about the substance of the post whose form so annoyed you?

never annoyed me babe........it's all just font...dig?

while I have no doubt ADHD exists.......I would say 99.999% of the people who say to me that they think they have it are full of ****...granted many are joking...but many more use it as a feel good crutch...thus my original point.

[JBA]

never annoyed me babe........it's all just font...dig?
while I have no doubt ADHD exists.......I would say 99.999% of the people who say to me that they think they have it are full of ****...granted many are joking...but many more use it as a feel good crutch...thus my original point.

Or many more are just mentally retarded and don't like the stigma that comes with that, and therefore are now autistic. I have had these conversations with clinicians and they agree it’s easier to tell a parent that their child is autistic or ADHD then to tell them their retarded. It gives them some comfort and hope that their little genius is just looked inside a broken mind. It’s part of the inoffensive world we live in now.

[ZetaNine]

Or many more are just mentally retarded and don't like the stigma that comes with that, and therefore are now autistic. I have had these conversations with clinicians and they agree it’s easier to tell a parent that their child is autistic or ADHD then to tell them their retarded. It gives them some comfort and hope that their little genius is just looked inside a broken mind. It’s part of the inoffensive world we live in now.

very well said....and very well sad....all in one.



our nation is a walking-talking irony.... we love to label ...  and we find great comfort in belonging to labels....but never mention it...as such an observation is politically incorrect.