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Originally Posted by Seahawk
I'd be on Ban Island if I spoke my mind...no bigger load of gradu has ever been foisted on families.
"Diagnosis Tools"...sure.
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Exactly. Both of my kids were originally diagnosed with ADHD when they were in 1st grade.
My wife and her parents were all in a panic, ready to take the kids down to a "specialist" and get them drugged up.
I went through the roof and
gently talked some sense into them.
Eventually we found that over half the kids in that school were getting diagnosed with ADHD because the school got extra money from the gubmint for each child that was diagnosed with ADHD, even if they didn't have it.
Fast forward, both my kids were taken out of that scam public school, are straight A students, my daughter just headed off to college two days ago, and neither of them have ever had ADHD.
It is real, a very small percentage of the population has it, but the vast majority of kids who are diagnosed with it are victims of greedy and dishonest medical people, or drama queen hypochondriac parents.
It's not fair to the kids who don't really have it, and it's even worse for the kids who really do have it because their condition carries a stigma it doesn't deserve.
Time for society to man up and stop looking for excuses to fail.