Post by The Candy Lane on Mar 3, 2010 20:37:46 GMT -5
I dont have ADD but i got some friends that do. wen there not on there meds u can definently tell, and when they have coffee well its nuts. so ya i think its a real 'condition' i dont know if u could call at a handicap but i do suppose the severity would differ from person to person
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I went to a school with a guy we'll call Richie. Richie was a few years behind me. He was in seventh I believe during my senior year. Richie had ADHD, which I'll lump into this discussion. Richie alternated between two states. He was either A) in the back of the room loudly playing with dinosaurs and not paying a lick of attention or B) practically comatose. Richie was awesome when he was in his natural state. He was hilarious. He may not have been learning anything, but he was having a blast. It was depressing when he was a zombie. It was like someone sucked the soul out of the kid.
Pretty much all my middle schoolers supposedly have ADD. I can't tell if they aren't paying attention because of that or because they're just middle schoolers. The one kid who I know for a fact takes medication seems perfectly well adjusted and not at all distracted. He's a solid student in my class. He claims he's crazy when off his meds, but I've never seen it so I don't know. He could be perfectly fine and taking sugar pills for all I know. Either that or whatever he takes is doing the job quite well.
I don't know enough about ADD or ADHD or what-have-you to really comment on it's existence, but I am coming to the opinion that some things, whether a real disorder or not, should not be diagnosed. How many people use ADD or something like it or something else entirely as an excuse to goof off, cut up, refuse to pay attention, or even try. "I can't do that because I have <insert disorder here>." I think they might have better luck if they weren't coddled and given reasons to sell themselves short and instead dealt with their problems on their own. Parents should be made aware of the problem of course, but don't ell the kids. Let's see if the kid can overcome his inattention on his own.
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