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Doctor: No Such Thing as ADHD
The New American ^ | 18 March 2014 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 03/18/2014 10:29:27 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer

The child would daydream in class, his elementary-school teachers said. He often just didn’t pay attention the way they would have liked. This was before the age of prevalent ADHD diagnoses and Ritalin, so no remedy was at hand, either. If one had been, though, who knows what he might have been?

Perhaps not co-valedictorian of his school — which he was.

I was that child. And were I attending school today and especially if my behavior had been worse, it’s likely I’d have received that fashionable diagnosis. And why not? It seems everyone now could have ADHD.

This point is made by Dr. Richard Saul, who has been practicing behavioral neurology for 50 years and is the author of the new book ADHD Does Not Exist. In a March 14 Time piece he writes:

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


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This is exactly what I've always said about this bogus condition that never was.
1 posted on 03/18/2014 10:29:27 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
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To: Paladins Prayer

By becoming ubiquitous, it lost all meaning.


2 posted on 03/18/2014 10:31:35 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Paladins Prayer
This is exactly what I've always said about this bogus condition that never was.

Me too.

3 posted on 03/18/2014 10:31:39 AM PDT by InterceptPoint
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To: Paladins Prayer

In the olden days they were simply called smart-mouthed rotten brats and a few spankings set them straight.

I know it worked on me, the first time I mouthed-off at school and my Dad hat to come home from work and ‘set me straight’

and I LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


4 posted on 03/18/2014 10:32:11 AM PDT by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

I believe parents HATE children and want them to sit there like zombies so they invented ADHD to drug them.


5 posted on 03/18/2014 10:32:39 AM PDT by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: Mr. K

We can veer off into another error here, the worship of (a different kind of) abuse. As C. S. Lewis pointed out, the devil sends errors into the world in pairs. Avoiding one exclusively sends people careening into the other.


6 posted on 03/18/2014 10:33:41 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Paladins Prayer
what was it ? 20 years ago that G Gordon Liddy said the same thing on his radio program and was deluged with complaints....
7 posted on 03/18/2014 10:35:10 AM PDT by virgil283 (When the sun spins, the cross appears, and the skies burn red)
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8 posted on 03/18/2014 10:35:48 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Paladins Prayer
Yep. Same here.

War against women? Ha! That was BS, but this is an actual war against boys and childhood.

Though we don't deserve it, may we somehow be forgiven for our foolishness and the damage we've done to those whose care and development we've been entrusted.

May we wake up before we get to where this is leading US to.

9 posted on 03/18/2014 10:37:02 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

Nope you’re wrong. And tons of people have it. They way they can tell is they treat it and the problems go away.


10 posted on 03/18/2014 10:38:11 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Constitution Day

Hahahaha!


11 posted on 03/18/2014 10:38:43 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (PITCH BLACK is the new "transparent")
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To: Paladins Prayer

My ex was an elementary school teacher. She would tell parents that their child needed Ritalin.

Who was she to tell these parents that? She was a teacher with a masters degree. It took her four tries and the highest she ever made on her ACT was 16. She pretty much had a cabbage for a brain but she managed to become a public school teacher.

She had big boobs and I was young and stupid. Again, I said, my ex.


12 posted on 03/18/2014 10:40:42 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Paladins Prayer

Funny, there was no ADHD when I was a kid. Maybe it’s because there was no Ritalin.

[Ritalin-pushers have an incentive to talk up ADHD]


13 posted on 03/18/2014 10:41:20 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: InterceptPoint

Yup, then the run the mom out that cannot control their children and blame us all for not drugging them.


14 posted on 03/18/2014 10:43:13 AM PDT by edcoil (Not a single republican was ever a slave owner. They were all democrats.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; Mr. K

I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the devil that sent spanking into the world to correct children. And I don’t think it’s worship to acknowledge when something worked - I know my backside got worn out when I deserved it. And it worked.


15 posted on 03/18/2014 10:43:46 AM PDT by mykroar (We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again. - Nathanael Greene)
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To: Paladins Prayer
"Doctor: No Such Thing as ADHD"

Doctor: no such thing as Attention Deficient Look a Squirrel!

16 posted on 03/18/2014 10:44:32 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mich Patriot

I couldn’t resist! :)


17 posted on 03/18/2014 10:45:40 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: I want the USA back

I remember a psychology book that showed drawings of 2 boys. One was an angelic looking creature and the other looked like he’d gotten into something dirty. The chapter said “beware of the perfect child”.

Things were so different - boys were allowed to be boys and fathers and mothers did what they had to do to set them straight. Worked for centuries.


18 posted on 03/18/2014 10:46:10 AM PDT by Aria ( 2008 & 2012 weren't elections - they were coup d'etats.)
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To: Paladins Prayer

Yep!

Once discipline and consequences have been removed from our schools, and parental control toolboxes, there had to be something to blame.

Add to this, single parent families, or both parents working, and you have a marketplace quite willing to accept the “pill” approach to behavior control.


19 posted on 03/18/2014 10:48:24 AM PDT by G Larry (There's the Beef!)
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To: Paladins Prayer

ADHD certainly exists for those who struggle with it. Are there spoiled brats who are misdiagnosed? Yes. Are there people who are correctly diagnosed? Yes.


20 posted on 03/18/2014 10:48:41 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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