By: alessandro

alessandro — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:15:19 +0000

Back in 1975 I was already eligible for a ADHD diagnosis, only because I was refusing to stay on my chair for more than two hours. Since the term was not available parents and teachers tried to find a solution with a suspect epilexya and other possibilities but nothing come out and I’ve survived schools compromising but never having real problems. 20 years later, studying a neurophisiology examen for my pedagogy degree, I’ve discovered that our backbone, during childhood years and until “complete” physiological development, just hates that we stay too many hours still, particularly on a chair… and in order to communicate it, often give us signals like stimulating legs muscles and pushing us to move and let the spine correctly develop. I personally think that ADHD does not exist apart as a huge business opportunity and a comfortable excuse for seriously superficial parents.

p.s.
forgive my english

By: jason

jason — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:36:48 +0000

I blogged about this a couple of days ago,and as someone with loads of ADHD and lydexea up the wazoo I have to say that I agree with you. Tech has always facilitated my ways of getting around ADHD and dyslexia, not the reverse. Of course I had it before we ever had more than a 12″ black and white TV at home. My conclusion was perhaps similar; we should stop drugging children who are normal but different in order for them to fit into the artificial construct that is a learning institution. It is not ADHD as much as it is a non-stimulating learning environment. It was like that before computers, and will be like that until it changes.

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