Ritalin, testicle lockbox, the new castrati--
Posted on 09/04/2007 8:16:26 AM PDT by mombyprofession
Cheech and Chong came up with the cure for ADD.
*Sound of a glass bottle breaking*
“Now listen Jimmy, the next one is going through your kneecap. Let’s try it again...”
He would ask questions like: "What if the building caught on fire?" and say no more. I can still remember every "What If?" ....and 50 years have passed. There were 3 biggies!!
2.4 million with ADHD, 1 million with bipolar disorder, how many with unipolar disorder, then the reports of depression in young people. Are there any happy children left?
Easy fix to the majority of the problems.
Perhaps the criteria is wrong my good doctor.
Our son was "diagnosed" with ADHD while in kindergarten. I'm thankful my wife is able to stay home and homeschool the kids. It's paid off very well.
At the risk of aounding *really* immodest....I can attest to the truth of this. BTW, when I was a kid....homeschooling was *not* a buzzword, and private school was not a financial option, unfortunately.
Teachers took one look at me (and some of my friends) and flipped. Early on, their solution to challenge me was to promote me from 1st to 6th grade (fortunately, Mom and Dad put paid to that nonsense...) Middle school ran IQ tests on me (and some of my friends) and had no clue what to do - they plunked us in front of computers and told us to to play what amounted to video games. Our solution? Hack the video game coding and re-write it to make it "cooler". I suppose that wasn't completely stupid - the three of us in the "gifted and talented" class all now make a decent living in computers / engineering. Coincidentally, 7th grade was the hardest for me, because I came to the realization at that time that a) I was smarter and more driven than most of my teachers and b) they always didn't have my best interests at heart. It was a tough year.
Later - the better teachers saw that potential and had some fun. The lesser teachers (interestingly enough, the partcularly belligerent and antagonistic ones were all female, wonder what that means) - at best ignored us and at worst held us back. I can still remember my 11th grade English teacher telling me that I wouldn't ever amount to anything. She'd have us diagramming sentences for weeks at a time...a buddy and I blew through the homework in 5 min and sat in the back of the class designing the world's ultimate stereo system.
Anyhoo - IMHO, long and the short of it is that gov't schools never - ever - have the interests of the best and the brightest at heart. While there may be teachers that excel and are interested - by and large, the system works to beat down those pegs that stick out. And - nothing will beat a kid down faster than labelling him as a "Problem Child with ADHD" and drugging him. Thank God this PC feelgood crap hadn't been invented 20(cough30) years ago or else I'd be working as a blissfully ignorant custodial technician somewhere. /rant off
Why is it considered “conservative” to disbelieve in ADHD? I have it. I was well-behaved in school—i.e., didn’t talk and run around. But I had, and have, forty years later, all the classic symptoms. The amphetamine I am on helps a lot.
Rush Limbaugh has had a lot to do, I think, with promoting this notion that ADHD, Depression, Bi-Polar Disorder, etc., are a bunch of “liberal” illnesses, cooked up to “excuse” people for crimes.
Ritalin, testicle lockbox, the new castrati--
So, there are people walking around at 100 years of age who never had modern medicine? Have you checked out any of the people in the cemeteries?
Most kids I know who are diagnoed with ADD/ADHD are kids whose parents are so wrapped up in their own lives they have no time to actually parent.
Each child that has ADD/ADHD is then labeled learning disabled. The school district gets more money for each “LD” child that goes there than they do for each “normal” one. That is one reason that the majority of children being tested for ADD/ADHD are referred by teachers.
They also have very few doctors in Mexico. That’s why you see a lack of diagnoses. And also, the Mexicans that you see that live 100 years old are the exception, not the rule.
Oh, BTW, life expectancy in Mexico is 72 years vs the American 78 years.
The brain on the left is a normal brain, the brain on the right is a brain with ADD. Every psychological disease that's ever been proven or diagnosed shows a brain wave signature.
My son’s second grade teacher was a first-year teacher. She tried to ambush me with the school counselor at the parent-teacher conference. These to women tried to tell me he had “ADD, but not ADHD, because he’s not hyperactive”. Then the teacher gave me a list of behaviors my son was having in math class. She had her student teacher watch him and write down every time he wasn’t sitting still and staring at his paper. All these behaviors were ADHD indicators. Also, it turns out he finished his math assignment within 5 minutes and was bored silly.
I informed them that my son had been tested and just missed the gifted program by one percentage point and his psychologist had soecifically said he did not have and ADD or ADHD symptoms.
He is in 7th grade, unmedicated and doing just fine.
Which is why it's predominantly a boy's affliction. America's boys need good Dads, and the traditional constructive culture of 4-H, Scouting, Junior Achievement, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, etc.
Hip-hop and matriarchal-culture-by-default just ain't working out. Perhaps the drugs and psychiatric parasite industry aren't very reliable either.
I don't know if Jagger and Richards actually wrote it, but among the Stone's best pieces was 'Mothers' Little Helper' re 'bourgeois' suburban semi-prescribed drug culture in the '60s. "And thereby hangs a tale."
Ironically, Coca Cola can make some ADHD kids calm down and pay attention.
Are there any numbers for how many of these kids were in daycare?
I’ve always thought that many children overwhelmed by strange and borderline hostile environments that are called daycare would disengage by staying too active to pin down or with drawing the way the autistic do.
South Park did an episode where every kid in school was diagnosed with ADHD. They were all prescribed Ritalin, and it made them so mellow they thought Phil Collins was hip.
It all adds up... :-)
No, the brain on the right is normal. The one on the left is deficient, acquiesced, and pacified into a dull and compliant state. It needs therapy. It needs help.
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