In article >,
BlueBrooke > wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 10:15:22 +1300, Miche > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > BlueBrooke > wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:01:45 -0600, Sqwertz >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:25:15 -0800 (PST), wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> How come when I was growing up, I was born in 1965, you never heard of
> >> >> a single kid who was allergic to peanuts, no one was lactose
> >> >> intolerant, and no one was allergic to gluten, yet alone know what
> >> >> gluten was unless you were a baker?
> >>
> >> Good question. They didn't all have ADD back then, either.
> >
> >Yes, they did. It just went untreated.
>
> Sorry, but I'm not buying that. If that was the case, the classrooms
> -- which had 30 or more students in them, not the 1:15 teacher:student
> ratio that seems to be required now -- would have been war zones. They
> weren't. I think it was more a matter of requiring your children to
> behave, and teaching them that they were *not* the boss, than finding
> what drugs to medicate them with.
>
> Kids aren't required to behave anymore. Parents spend more time
> trying to convince everyone it isn't the kid's fault (and it isn't --
> lack of parenting is the adult's fault) than they do teaching their
> kids basic manners and responsibility.
Blah blah yackety schmackety. Nothing I haven't heard a hundred times,
and yet it changes nothing.
ADHD is a neurological deficit of the executive function. It's got
nothing to do with the amount of discipline a kid receives at home or at
school.
What you have with "well-behaved" ADHD people is people who've learned
coping mechanisms one way or another. The ADHD hasn't gone away, and
kids don't "grow out of it". They learn to manage it.
Miche
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