Youngest Kids in Class at Higher Risk of ADHD Diagnosis

Re:Youngest Kids in Class at Higher Risk of ADHD Diagnosis by bsder on Sunday March 13, 2016 @06:35PM (#11279734)

ADHD -- middle class children with behaviors that annoy elementary school teachers

If they're poor, you call them thick. If they're rich, you get them a tutor. If they're middle class, you medicate them.

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Re:Youngest Kids in Class at Higher Risk of ADHD Diagnosis by ThrustVectoring on Sunday March 13, 2016 @08:59PM (#11280309)

Or middle class children with behavior that annoys their parents.

Well, it's both that and a legitimate medical condition. The problem is that the medication that works for ADHD also works for suppressing childish behavior that authority figures find annoying. Everyone involved are fallible humans that respond to incentives, and often the incentives align for teachers, parents, and psychiatrists to medicate children into compliance.

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Re:Youngest Kids in Class at Higher Risk of ADHD Diagnosis by crapolasplatter on Sunday March 13, 2016 @09:16PM (#11280392)

Or kids who actually have a problem. ADHD is not only hyper activity. Many have an attention disorder with no hyper activity issue.

Actually those are the most at risk because they seldom stand out or are called out for having a problem ,except with their grades.

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