That's because most boys who are diagnosed with ADHD are simply acting like boys and not girls. Teachers today don't know how to handle boys (maybe because they are mostly women).
"World To End Today:Women and Minorities Hit Hardest"
Girls are more than half the population. Why should it be so significant that this *affects girls* and more than it affecting boys. News flash. *Children are at risk* DUH!
Teachers apparently want more referral fees.
"Research" that is set up to find predetermined results is not science it is fraud. Why do they even call it social science? What hubris. The Physics and Chemistry departments must laugh and laugh at these wannabes who pretend to be scientists. There's no such thing as soft science. If research doesn't result in good hard repeatable results then it is fraud pure and simple.
I'm amazed that anyone buys any of the silly stuff that comes from of the social science wingnuts. I mean, this is Oprah kind of stuff, not real science. None of these "studies" ever survives an independent peer review. What an insult to real scientists. Why don't real scientists publicly repudiate these pretenders?
"Attention Disorder Has Lasting Impact On Girls"
'been saying that for years.
Thank God I am not growing up today.
Today, they would have slammed those drugs in me so fast it would have made my head spin.
I simply do not believe it is a real disorder. I think it is kids being kids. Do kids get hyperactive? You bet. Do kids get depressed? Absolutely. I just do not believe it is a real "disorder". I think it is an excuse to drug kids to keep them in line.
Just my opinion.
A teenage girl who is our babysitter and friend has ADHD. She seems quite intelligent but is doing very badly in school. I worry about her future.
The ignorant freepers will be attracted to this thread like flies telling us the lie that this is a made up disease. At least ADHD can be treated with medication. Ignorance can't be.
Bump for later.
Most women I've known have ADHD, they never paid much attention to what I had to say.
"Compared with teenage girls who had no psychiatric disorder..."
As a former Teenage Girl, we're all pretty psycho while our hormones are going wild, we're getting boobs and zits and hair (down there!), we're obsessed with horses and the Hollywood Hunk of the Week, we're contemplating tatoos or piercings and are busy cat-fighting with the girl who WAS our Best Friend last week and is now our Sworn Mortal Enemy! (And we'll make her pay. Yes. We. Will. *Snicker*)
I'd be interested to see how they even found a control group of female teens that they thought were free of psychotic tendencies, LOL!
What? They don't use control groups to actually prove or disprove medical findings when they want a specific outcome? My bad. *Smirk*
Ping!
I believe that ADHD is a manufactured illness. Many behavioral problems need to be treated with structure and discipline. Some kids may be emotionally immature and need to be kept back a grade if they are unable to keep up in school.