Is defined as “a common behavioral disorder that affects about 10% of school-age children. “
It tends to be used as a blanket to toss over active children. Children who don’t sit like zombies in class.
Fortunately, I grew up in a time that there were no ‘mental disorders’ of that nature. If you weren’t barking mad, you weren’t mad.
Fortunately, I grew up at a time when primary school streamed it’s students. Bright Class, 2nd Bright, Average and Dunce.
If a kid couldn’t cut it in Bright Class, s/he was put into 2nd Bright.
The fact was, bright kids put in dunce class would show all kinds of ‘ADHD’ disorders due to extreme boredom.
You know when you are bored you can’t sit still, nothing around you captures your interest. That would, of course, today be ‘diagnosed’ as ADHD.
When we left Primary we were streamed, savagely streamed due to I.Q. tests into one of 15 different classes at my Junior High. This meant that the brighter you were, the harder the work. One couldn’t be bored.
Today, the duncest child in the class controls the class. The teacher can’t ‘leave anyone behind’, so the kids who will never be academic, (and many people are not academic, they may have a million dollars worth of personality, they may have common sense, they may be great at a front desk, but are absolutely not interested in the French Revolution, the Hydrogenation of Water, or the gravity on Jupiter) have license to bring a class to pause and keep it there.
The problem with school is that it can be boring. Very boring for the bright child. Nothing is done for the bright child. There are no programs in the average school to inspire them.
To keep them quiet drugs are dispensed.
Further, if there ever was an honest investigation one would learn about the ‘kick backs’ guidance counsellors get from various ‘health care professionals’ to refer the kids.
Parents who don’t have any money are not referred. Parents who have a few dollars in their pocket can be fleeced.
A friend of mine and his wife, (both brilliant) had a child who was on the computer at 16 months of age. He was a brilliant child and his parents sent him to a private advanced school then migrated.
The parents placed him into a school in America and he was quickly ‘diagnosed’ as having ADHD and medication was suggested.
My friends removed him from the school and placed him in another, because he didn’t have any psychological problem, he just happened to be brilliant.
To give you an example, he was here, in Jamaica and terrified of Earthquakes (there had recently been one). I explained plate tectonics to him, (Jamaica is on a plate which would move parallel to the next plate, not go under or over it).
He understood completely. That is because he is brilliant. And he needs to taught by someone who has enough knowledge to inspire him.
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From my experience from observation I believe that ADHD is a real thing. But I don't believe it is a horrible thing. I don't believe in chemical medications. But herbal supplements and oils are what has worked best for my husband.