So I've always felt that ADHD is pseudoscience; a crutch used by lazy parents and bad teachers to scapegoat their poor skills relating to kids. Human beings arnt designed to sit in one place for long periods of time. Especially in uncomfortable plastic chairs under florescent lighting. In fact, anatomically speaking, bony young children are going to have the most discomfort sitting while fat old women are likely to find sitting very comfortable. And it doesnt take a psychotherapist to realize that the more you expose a mind to complex audio-visual stim the more that mind is going to want that to accompany any additional input. Like many functions of our society, both teaching and parenting are clinging to styles used a few centuries back. Coarse..it took years just to get left handed desks and scissors. I actually have held on to a memory of my kindergarten or maybe 1st grade teacher trying..gently..to get me to use my right hand over my left.
Anyhoo
here is a link to a story confirming the many misdiagnoses of ADHD.
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