Attention what?

[jackofallgeeks]

I don't think I believe that ADHD exists. I don't know anything, mind, I'm hardly a qualified professional and I've only done the barest amount of reading on the subject. But what I have found makes me think it's another case of self-overmedication that our society is so fond of. The 'symptoms' don't seem to be anything more than a lack of self-control or discipline, which most kids have naturally and will retain unless self-control and discipline are instilled in them by adults. That being the case, it wouldn't surprise me if more kids lacked necessary self-control because many parents can not or will not discipline their children, and 'finding' a new disease lets us medicate our children into a docile, managable state.

That's the theory i'm working on at the moment? any of you out there want to help do some of the foot work and point me toward articles et cetera that might support or contradict such a theory?

Comments

[tiel.livejournal.com]

I don't believe that we as human beings are wired to be able handle the excess amounts of sensory input that are thrown in our faces in todays day and age, or rather we can be, but like all of our senses it has to be developed slowly rather then flooding our poor senses with dozens of sights & sounds (& smells & touches) while we are still trying to learn how to use them.

This is very, very true. I see so many therapy patients come through my office who are being treated "for ADHD" but who have completely different issues that are 100% based on poor sensory development. The trouble is that the symptoms manifest in such a way that they present like ADHD or ADD and our society is os stinking focused on band-aids that they want a quick fix for the symptoms and don't want to have to worry about the actual problem.