I'm not talking about legitimate cases(and I strongly disagree with the blowhards who claim ADD is ENTIRELY made up.) But there are a heck of a lot of persons who claim to have ADD who really are just excuse making, in jobs poorly suited to their personalities, lacking self-control, etc.
You have my prayers and understanding for your situation. The excuse makers who try and jump on the ADD bandwagon end up doing the most harm to recognition of ADD by the general public, because they are the loudest ones and those most likely to be encountered by the public, who then attaches a gereral skepticism about the existence and severity of actual cases.
BLOWHARDIAN OR NOT ... THAT'S THE WAY IT IS.
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The world depends on blowhards and flakes. The rest of you are just sheep, penned for the slaughter.
toughtomater wrote: "On a very basic level, if a child is raised by a television in a family where both parents work, and taught by government schools, one would expect an otherwise healthy child to develop all the symptoms associated with ADD/ADHD." This is a true statement based on what I've seen in the behavior of my non-add kids v. the one who has it.
For the "blowhards" (Neal Boortz among them, though I otherwise enjoy his show) a number of clinical studies have found clear differences in brain functioning between brains of people with and without ADD. Here is a link to one such study: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:hdZPWWUFJE0J:www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981124063106.htm+ADD+AND+%22brain+chemistry%22+AND+difference&hl=en