Neal Boortz and ADD

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[Zavien Doombringer]

Careful, the Supreme Judge is judging you as type.

And? I am not in fear :)

[Sloth]

What the school doesn't tell the parent is that the child's school record follws him eternally. Prospective employers will all know that the kid was drugged in order to function.

Nonsense.

[GovernmentShrinker]

While I believe that 90%+ of ADD diagnoses may be incorrect, looking to history to disprove its reality doesn't hold water. There is a great deal of evidence to suggest a connection between our modern, information-based society, and problematic effects of ADD. In other words, it has probably always existed, but caused little trouble in societies where most people earned their livings via manual labor, and few were expected to spend much time at "book-learning".

Just 150-200 years ago in this country, most boys attended school only sporadically (often only for a couple of months in the dead of winter), and rarely beyond the age of 14-15. They were needed to perform manual labor on the family farm, or to take manual labor jobs in industry to help support their families and themselves.

[widowithfoursons]

Any PI (or curious person) could get this stuff in a heartbeat, regardless of the law. And don't forget that five years inhibits college admission as well as a HS grad who wants to get a job.

[Sloth]

My wife has ADHD. It is a real disorder, even though it is ridiculously overdiagnosed. Without Ritalin, my wife is so scatter-brained that she has difficulty holding a job.

[widowithfoursons]

Ahhh, facts would be nice.

[Zavien Doombringer]

I would have to agree that adults can still suffer from this. Some learn to live with it. In my daughters case, she will grow out of it, by the time she is 15, she should be fine. She is 10 now, and has been diagnost when she was 7.

[Sloth]

They sure would, anytime you want to start supplying some.

[GovernmentShrinker]

That's an important point. One of the symptoms of ADD/ADHD is the tendency to hyperfocus on repetitive tasks, like video games, i.e. get quickly and completely "lost" in the task, and forget about other things that one really wants to do, and be genuinely oblivious to outside stimuli (someone calling your name, the sound of the phone ringing, the smell of smoke from burning food on the stove, etc.). This pattern bears an eerie similarity to a common symptom of autistic spectrum disorders.

[widowithfoursons]

You said "nonsense". Look at the response about how the military rejects a person because of psychotropic drug use. That would be a "fact". Where are your facts?

[amarok]

I can sympathize. I need a little "help" to better focus when attending meetings; otherwise, I tend to zone out and lose track of what's going on.

[snopercod]

You're unable to spell the name of the drug your child is taking?

[Zavien Doombringer]

I can sympathize. I need a little "help" to better focus when attending meetings; otherwise, I tend to zone out and lose track of what's going on.

I do that too, but I think on my part it's because of the lack of sleep at night :)

[GovernmentShrinker]

Actually, what I've heard about the diet connection hasn't been "hardly eating at all", but rather a reaction to common dietary garbage like too much sugar and refined starch and certain artificial colorings and other additives -- in other words, things that aren't good for anybody, but seem to cause greater than usual trouble for some ADD kids. I'm no expert on this, but there is a great deal of solid info on it available on the Internet.

[modern_orthodox]

I have long been saying ADD is just an excuse for bad behavior. And then Neal Boortz comes along and validates it.

Neal Boortz ranting about something on the radio doesn't "validate" it in any sense of the word. The only standard that should be in play here is scientific research.

[brianl703]

Do you expect me to believe that, in our litigious society, a school district would release records against written policy?

As far as jobs go, I have never had an employer until now who so much as checked if I had an HS diploma, let alone get a copy of my records to see that I didn't do so well in 11th grade chemistry...

[brianl703]

Scratch policy, I'm pretty sure it's law.

[Zavien Doombringer]

You're unable to spell the name of the drug your child is taking?

Does that make me a bad parent, or are you trying to discredit the fact my daughter is taking the meds? I acknowledged the fact I don't know the spelling, I am not a pharm tech, but I do know it sounds like ADERAL,and looks like in capsule form, dark beige/brown... I give it to her every morning at 7:15 am...

[mouse_35]

I believe it is spelled Adderall.

[Zavien Doombringer]

Well, I don't kow what she is eating at school, but at home, we don't have that "garbage" in the house. Accationally potato chips and Lil'Debbie cakes (for school lunches for the older guys)
I will be doing that research. I hate having to give her the meds