Re:The Link Between August Birthdays and ADHD (2018)
by philliphaydon on Thursday October 20, 2022 @06:45AM
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Don’t get me wrong I’m not saying it doesn’t exist or the meds are pointless. Absolutely there are people with ADHD and meds work for them.
But sometimes I think difficult children are automatically labeled ADHD and the solution is drugs without trying to find the cause.
I reminded of this Ted talk https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_c...
Re:The Link Between August Birthdays and ADHD (2018)
by adastra22 on Thursday October 20, 2022 @07:59AM
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For people with ADHD though, the drugs are the cure. Stimulants are a miracle drug for those lacking executive function.
Re:The Link Between August Birthdays and ADHD (2018)
by Melatonic on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:48PM
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In my experience it was the opposite - there were almost no kids labeled ADHD. Where did you live that everyone was labelled ADHD?
Most people blamed the behaviour of difficult children on their difficult parents.
That being said there are a lot of people who are purposely seeking ADHD meds who know they are not ADHD just to get drugs. Those people are kind of ruining it for everyone else. They are usually pretty easy to spot though
It’s perhaps a meme now that adhd is over diagnosed, but I’d guess the majority is pill seeking individuals looking to compete at school or at work and less false positive diagnoses such as yours.
Net net you seem to have solved it fairly quickly so at least that’s good: even when you get the diagnosis wrong if you can backtrack without significant cost then maybe it’s not absolutely horrible.