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Re:Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates by aplusbi on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @11:23AM (#1614384)
You are probably being downvoted because you are making the claim that ADHD is not a real disorder and that treatment for it is comparable to homeopathy.
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Re:Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates by JabavuAdams on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @06:07PM (#1615773)
This is not necessarily a crazy claim to make.

Mental differences are objective, but mental disorders are culturally relative.

This doesn't diminish the mental pain that such a difference can cause in a specific culture, but it's not absolute. It's more of a round peg / square hole kind of thing.

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Re:Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates by drtse4 on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @11:36AM (#1614446)
You are right, maybe i should have stated what i meant more clearly and in a different way, i'm not claiming that. See my other comment below.
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Re:Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates by numeromancer on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @11:59AM (#1614537)
I claim: ADHD is not a real disorder and that treatment for it is comparable to homeopathy.
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Re:Kindergarten enrollment dates affect ADHD diagnosis rates by Digital on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @01:26PM (#1614849)
The treatment for ADHD is Adderall. Regardless of if ADHD is real or not, Adderall is nothing like any Homeopathy treatment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall#Performance-enhancing_...

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