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Keyser Söze

On 1/22/16 9:32 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 1/22/2016 7:53 AM, John H. wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:22:33 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 18:08:27 -0500, John H.
wrote:

I'm on your side on this one. I think most of my grandkids are on
Ritalin or some
damn thing. I blame computers and computer games, and parents, of
course. But mostly
I blame the damn doctors who prescribe the ****. Of course, smacking
a kid on the
butt is not the 'liberal progressive' thing to do. Probably not
politically correct
either.

I know of no one in my generation, or the following one, who was
classified ADD or
ADHD. Although, I have heard of 'adult onset' ADD. I think that's
another
narcissistic ploy for attention.

The thing that bothers me the most about this is that most of the
people who shaped our history probably would have been called ADD in
school and drugged.

In the years that I taught, I never experienced the school putting
pressure on the
parents to drug their kids. Unless the counsellors were getting the
parents on the
sly, I don't know when it would be taking place. I think it's the
teacher complaining
to the parents about behavior/homework, and then the parents asking a
doctor what
they should do about it, instead of putting in the effort to fix the
problem
themselves.

I've witnessed just the opposite. The school systems and even
individual teachers are diagnosing kids and recommending to the parents
that they be put on medication. Went through this with my daughter and
her oldest kid. One of his teachers talked to her about it and even
admitted that she herself (the teacher) was on medication for adult ADD.
My daughter took him to his doctor and the doctor got bull ****. The
kid (my grandson) was a perfectly normal, typical young adolescent going
through the process of growing up. That f'in 24 year old teacher
should be fired.

That was about 5 years ago. He has since graduated from high school, is
attending a trade school, working and is doing just fine.

What percentage of kids are being diagnosed that way? 1%, 5%, more?