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ABLECHILD: ADHD is Not a Medical Condition

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ADHD is Not a Medical Condition

Republished with permission from AbleChild.

You know there’s a problem with mental health when a former president of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) goes public with the forbidden statement that ADHD is “not a medical condition.” Of course, the good doctor is right, there is zero evidence that there is any abnormality in the brain that is ADHD and, frankly, medicine knows it.

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The apparent faux pas occurred when Dr. Iona Heath, a general practitioner in north London for nearly four decades, was interviewed for a news documentary that will air sometime next year in Great Britian. It’s almost sacrilegious to be so disrespectful as to verbalize the fact that medicine has no idea why children, and now an ever-increasing number of adults, are diagnosed as impulsive and hyperactive.

The problem, of course, is that all the great and near great in mental health can’t explain what causes the alleged Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Oh yeah, for sure, there’s lots of ideas about what is thought to cause the alleged disorder, but after nearly 100 years, everybody is basically clueless about the cause of the alleged ADHD. But, not knowing anything, never stopped the best and brightest in mental health from explaining that ADHD is caused by genes, brain structure, environmental risks, and will further report that the alleged disorder runs in families.

Ironically, the symptoms of the alleged “neurodevelopmental condition” ADHD reveals itself with the following behaviors, including daydreaming, forgetting or losing things, squirming or fidgeting, talking too much, making careless mistakes or taking unnecessary risks, having a hard time resisting temptation, having trouble taking turns, and having difficulty getting along with others to name a few.

Nobody wants to be Johnny Rain Cloud, but doesn’t everyone do some of these things all the time? Who doesn’t forget stuff? There are lots of people who talk too much, and most are in Congress. And isn’t taking unnecessary risks part of life, like taking a chance on things, jumping in with both feet, throwing care to the wind? With all due respect to the great scientific minds but these “symptoms” seem like normal everyday life.

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Of course, it’s no secret that modern mental health’s bread and butter is finding every human emotion a “mental illness” like depression, anxiety, highs and lows in life and the beauty of the diagnosis is that there’s no science to it. All mental health diagnosing is simply the doctor’s opinion of one’s behavior. No actual abnormalities are found in the brain that are any of the alleged mental disorders. Medicine can’t find anything in anyone’s brain that is depression, anxiety or ADHD, including that old, wrong, fallback position of being short of Serotonin or Dopamine known as the thoroughly debunked “chemical imbalance.” Mental Health diagnosing is all about taking the psychiatrist’s word for it.

So, when someone as elevated as a former president of one of the great medical clubs, tells the world that the ADHD diagnosis isn’t “a medical condition,” well, all hell breaks loose and the RCGP immediately explains that the statement was not made on behalf of the college, explaining “the college recognizes ADHD as a neurodevelopmental condition…”

So, is it disorder or a condition? It matters. For example, “condition” is a broad neutral term for a state of health while “disorder” denotes a specific medical term for a disruption to normal body or mind functions. And “neurodevelopmental” refers to the growth and development of the brain and nervous system. Wouldn’t the neurodevelopment be happening all the time for everyone? So, the mental health community has no abnormality in the brain that is ADHD, but it can tell that there’s a “neurodevelopmental condition” in kids because they wiggle and talk out of turn?

Now, when a patient accepts the unscientific diagnosis, what can be done? Well, there are mind-altering drugs to “treat” what most people consider normal human emotions. This is where it gets tricky, though. The prescribed ADHD drugs don’t “treat” anything. Like illegal, recreational drugs, the prescribed drugs will change behavior but there isn’t an abnormality, like a growth or something that can be identified and targeted for “treatment.” This is all subjective nonsense and lots of kids are being diagnosed world-wide with the United States taking the lead with 7 million (11%) aged 3-17 with more than half of them being drugged as “treatment.”

All the prescription drugs that are used as “treatment” carry significant, even possibly, deadly side effects. For example, stimulants like Adderall, Ritalin, Concerta and Vyvanse all have possible unpleasant side effects like insomnia, weight loss, headaches, dizziness, nausea, anxiety, irritability, restlessness, increased nervousness and elevated blood pressure, psychosis, hallucinations, delusions and cardiovascular strain to name a few. One has to decide if wiggling and talking out of turn is so bad that it’s worth the possible adverse events that may occur.

The use of stimulant prescriptions has increased yearly. Between 2012 and 2023, for example, the number of prescriptions surged 60% from more than 50 million to more than 80 million. By anyone’s count, that’s seems like an awful lot of mind-altering drugs for kids who wiggle too much.

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The fact that a former president of a medical organization across the pond would dare to state the truth is encouraging. In fact, at the end of Heath’s presidency at the college, she took her show on the road, attending medical/scientific conferences, speaking about the overmedicalization in healthcare.

Every now and then even the exalted mental health poo-bahs in the U.S. will pull the curtain back on diagnosing children. Allen Frances, the lead author of the DSM-IV, said in an interview that “diagnostic uncertainty in kids is so great that labels should always be written in pencil.” Yes. Extreme caution should be used when diagnosing kids, especially when there is no science to support the diagnosis and the “treatments” could be deadly.

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256 thoughts on “ABLECHILD: ADHD is Not a Medical Condition”

    • …and gender dysphoria is solved with plastic surgery, cross sex hormones, and a life time of therapy and anti-depressants.

    • Ultraprocessed foods, sedentary lifestyle, and lack of time outdoors are very real and very common today also. Reverse all of those things and/or go back to an era when these were uncommon, ADHD barely exists. There's an undeniable correlation between today's lifestyle– plus unhealthy food choices– and an attention span of a gnat with hyperactivity.

  3. Remember when politicians were DEMANDING that "big tobacco" not be able to advertise on tv????

    Where is that same concern over "big pharma"? Oh right, they ALL getr paid by big pharma.

  4. BS. Unfortunately this is the kind of propaganda that targets anyone who hasn’t a clue how the brain works.

    • Do tell us exactly what the drugs they force into the kids do to the brain to help. Since the medical field can't your explanation should be pure entertainment.

      • I am vehemently against the drugs and am against giving them to children or anyone for that matter. After studying the brain for years, all I can tell you in this brief comment is that the diagnosis, if done comprehensively and holistically, can be addressed with many alternatives to the drugs that pharmaceutical companies produce and make billions to pay off CEOs and politicians. I hope that addresses your ignorant perspective.

      • I am vehemently against the drugs and am against giving them to children or anyone for that matter. After studying the brain for years, all I can tell you in this brief comment is that the diagnosis, if done comprehensively and holistically, can be addressed with many alternatives to the drugs that pharmaceutical companies produce and make billions to pay off CEOs and politicians. I hope that addresses your ignorant perspective.

  5. Perhaps what we know as ADHD, is a defense mechanism of the body. Perhaps the reason its not letting them pay attention, because its not what ft they should be paying attention to. Just a theory…

  6. Born in the 50's, I would have been ADHD, fidgety, and losing interest in things as fast as you learn them, it describes the jack of all trades, or hack, or the grass looks greener over there let me dabble till I lose interest

  7. Let's See:

    Parents too damned busy to properly care for their children, take them to McDonalds for one of those breakfast egg things laden with MSG rather than feed them real food.
    Later in the day they get a call from the school that their hyper-active child is a disturbing influence to the entire class.

    Google MSG
    2+2=

  8. The Role of Diet and Fatty Acids
    Diet acts as a critical environmental bridge between the two conditions:

    Trans-Fatty Acids: Children with ADHD have been found to have significantly higher levels of trans-fatty acids in their red blood cells compared to controls. These fats are linked to both neurodevelopmental issues and liver insulin resistance.
    Ultra-Processed Foods (UPF): Children with ADHD consume significantly more ultra-processed foods. These diets are high in sugars and saturated fats (driving fatty liver) and low in essential nutrients like Omega-3s, iron, and zinc, which are vital for cognitive function.
    Omega-3 Deficiency: Lower levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are observed in children with ADHD, a deficiency also implicated in metabolic dysfunction.

  9. As a child of the 70's, all I can say is that, in our day, this "condition" was called, pain-in-the a-sery. You got a beating and moved on. Anything to push meds is all this amounts to.

        • my dad had a belt and so did his and they used them.

          after a while, you dont care and laugh about it and he stops using it and you’re conditioned to tell the rest of the world to stick it up their arse.

          now what?

          everybody here without any backbone assumes submission, but forgets conditioning is also a thing.

        • my father got thrown out of a Chicago private high school for smacking a brother who smacked him first.

          and his dad was a navy veteran who went to Okinawa as an 18 year old in 1945. and he had a belt that he used on him before that. taught him well, right?

          didnt stop my father from trying the belt with me though. didnt work then either.

          some people just do not take to authority.

        • In my home you wouldn't have to use it, just knowing it was there was enough to make you SELF CORRECT!!!! Drug free! Amazing!!!

        • In my home you wouldn't have to use it, just knowing it was there was enough to make you SELF CORRECT!!!! Drug free! Amazing!!!

        • Most memorable and well deserved beating my brothers and I got was with a Hot Wheels track. It still hurts! He told us to knock it off a couple of times, then went ballistic!!

        • i went to a Catholic Church for years and the only thing I regret is that I stopped going.

          you’ve been convinced that this is a group of perverts and cultists by actual perverts and cultists who want everybody as stupid as you.

          these are the same types who infiltrated the church as clergy because they knew the innocence of the actual Catholic worshippers.

          like the countless pervert teachers you never hear about in the public school cult.

          • I've studied World History, as well as that of the Roman Empire, and it's extremely clear where the catholics deviated from Christianity, in the 1st century and have NEVER managed to get back on the Christian rails, now 1600 years later!!!!

            SO, NO! PAGANISM invaded the catholic cult in the 1st Century, from their first pope, Simon Magus, the Gnostic/Pagan Samarian "magician," under Emperor Nero, and the cult coasted along sans ANY Christianity, until Roman Emperor Constantine took over the cult in AD 235, at the Council of Nicea, FULLY INSTALLING PAGANISM as the primary "religion" of the cult at that time!!!

            Catholics are Pagans, pure and simple, since 99% of what they believe DOES NOT APPEAR IN God's Bible!! Jesus was QUITE specific about believing ONLY what is contained in the Gospels and other writings of the New Testament!!!

          • Questions:
            If we are only to believe what is in the New Testament, would Jesus have left his followers with nothing for some 300-400 years?

            How did Christianity survive before the formation of the Bible, specifically the New Testament?

            Where the 11 apostles a cult? They didn’t have a bible after all.

            Which sect of Christianity set about the formation of the bible? If I follow your history, it would seem paganism had already infiltrated the very formation of the Bible itself. Quite interesting indeed.

            I hope and pray your faith journey firmly enjoins your soul to heaven and the eternal joy and peace of being with the the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

          • Have you read the Book of Acts? Jesus commissioned His Apostles to "go forth and spread the Word of God to the entire world! The Apostles and, as time passed, those whom they converted in their travels, did JUST THAT, during the 300-400 years you refer to! Also, the text that was to become the New Testament we have today, was written by those very Apostles and close associates, and yes, copies were made of those writings and distributed to the emerging Christian world LONG before the catholic scribes were even born!! The catholics like to claim the "gave the BIble" to the world, but in fact, they simply plagiarized what was already written, including the Hebrew Torah, 500-600 years before their time, and adding the later writings of the Apostles, into a single volume which we know today as the Bible! God made use of the eagerness of the scribes to publish His Book, the Bible!!

            That's a quick synopsis!!

            The "Great Commission" was given by Jesus, shortly after His Resurrection, in Matthew 28:18-20 in the mountains of Galilee, and the Apostles immediately carried out His word, founding the FIRST Christian church in Jerusalem, THE BIRTHPLACE OF CHRISTIANITY, from which the Apostles traveled to much of the known world, spreading Christianity as they were instructed!! Christianity blossomed and grew in the world as God had intended!

      • That’s a lie. I went to Catholic schools for 16 years, and never once did a nun beat a single kid.

      • My brother saw a kid get 12 raps across the knuckles for not waiting for the definition, but writing down the spelling word early. I got slammed into a wall by a catholic lay teacher when I was 8.

    • Exactly… as the boy with the record number of swats every year in both Jr. High and High School! No I didn't like it! I just refused to commit to listening/learning to/from people I neither knew or respected! I did listen to every syllable during the time I was is class… they couldn't figure out how I tested so high in all the state exames.
      Bottom line, I was bored and took it out on the schools/teachers/stepdad, and was beaten for it regularly at home with everything from razor straps to one excursion with a fireplace poker delivered by mom as well, but my attitude kept "the MAN" in check when they dealt with me/my pranks as they knew they could possibly kill me, but couldn't hurt me enough to bring in the law.
      I wasn't a bad person, but I was quite an awful kid that started bucking those that thought they could tell me what/how/when/if to think, at 6 and I've never stopped!

      As-ery should make it to the dictionary soon… I'd think.

    • IN MY DAY A GOOD SWAT FROM PARENTS OR ELDERS IN GENERAL WORKED WELL FOR THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
      CHILDREN HAD THEIR OWN POLICE FORCE AND YOU WERENT GETTING ANYTHING BY THEM {USUALLY THE OLDER KIDS YOU HUNG AROUND WITH ON OCCASION. THE SMACK IN THE NOSE YOU THE WHAT AT CRYING ABOUT NANCY TAUGHT YOU BOUNDARIES.

      ** BULLIES WERE THE TOP COP BRANCH OF KID GOVERNMENT. PITAS WERE SWIFTLY ABUSED AND LEARNED OR HARBORED RESENTMENT UNTIL THEY FOUND PETTY REVENGE IN MIDDLE MGMT,TACO BELL SHIFT LEADERS ETC.

      BULLIES WERE CHECKED BY THE ELDER KIDS SUCH AS BROTHERS OF THOSE STILL COMING UP. BULLIES WENT TO FAR AND A SERIOUS BEATING BROUGHT THEM DOWN A PEG.
      A.D.D KIDS WERE THE RUNNERS THAT RAN BACK TO GET STUFF WHEN THE GANG TRAVERSED TO ANOTHER HANG OUT AND SOMETHING WAS FORGOTTEN OR NEEDED.

      THAT GOVERNMENT WORKED WELL.

      MY POINT?
      *ADD HAS A PLACE IN SOCIETY LIKE COKE IN THE EIGHTIES.

      * HIERARCHY KEPT KIDS IN LINE WITH OUT ZOMBIE DRUGS.

    • Yep! Mom's wooden spoon or dad's belt cured my "ADHD" and then some. We definitely need more of that.

  10. As a child of the 70's, all I can say is that, in our day, this "condition" was called, pain-in-the a-sery. You got a beating and moved on. Anything to push meds is all this amounts to.

  12. This article is ill informed and poorly researched. With all to respect to one if favorite editors and news site: ADHA is very real mental health condition PROVEN through almost a century of research including brain scans. In fact there is MORE research attesting to the reslity of ADHD than ANY other so called psychological or mental illness. This is a verifiable fact, and anyone whi suffers from it or works with pythat do lniws this. Shame shame on the lack of research. Now, is it over diagnosed, poorly understood, and often improperly treated. Yes. But the brain scans evidence is clear, readily available and replicavle. What a damn shame to sed an otherwise source of great journalism make itself look so foolish. Do at least a modicum of research. I have known MD’s personally who would attest to the validity of the research.

    • Same MD's stood by with all of the Coivid lies. Were not in the streets screaming 6 feet is utter garbage. That a cloth mask was like a screen door on submarine. That 2 weeks to flatten the curve was an assault on freedom.
      MD's use to encourage patients to smoke as well recall the good old days. They would attest to the benefits of the habit. Blind faith in the medical field is a very dangerous choice.

      • My friend, thank you for the reply. Please allow me to clarify the position. Hard, peer reviewed data in the form of brain scans exists proving the existence of ADHD, better, more accurately called executive function disorder. The same sort of hard data shows masking to be completely INEFFECTIVE versus airborne vir

  14. I was hyper as a child and back then we didn't have money for sodas or other sugary snacks. Mom's chocolate chip cookies but not many of them. Dad just put me to work cleaning barns, scraping paint and painting buildings. I still can't sit around and do nothing for very long. Long past retirement age and still doing welding and repair work along with everything else needed to keep up the farm and the buildings. When my wife told me to relax and sit down I told her I have the adult version of ADHD. I won't repeat what she said I had.

  15. "daydreaming, forgetting or losing things, squirming or fidgeting, talking too much, making careless mistakes or taking unnecessary risks, having a hard time resisting temptation, having trouble taking turns, and having difficulty getting along with others to name a few."

    That's just a description of being a kid. The solution is the imposition by adults of appropriate consequences for undesirable behavior. Paddles work wonders for focusing attention.

    • Mr. Heath's paddle was thick and loud. He took a misbehaving student to the stairwell, and everyone heard the result. It was a great deterrent to many a young student – the one getting paddled and the others within hearing distance.

  16. I am 74, never had processed food or high sugar foods as a child and was in a highly disciplined household. If any of the old nuns were still alive they could tell you that ADHD is a real thing that didn't have a name in the 50s and 60s. The struggle was real.

    • They were allowed to correct it in the way they felt best. It was called being a child. Little Jimmy was wound up tight. He had adults to explain in crystal clear language that no matter why he was the way he was society didn't care and HE needed to change as society was not about to change to meet his needs. He wasn't special.

  17. The use of stimulant prescriptions has lead to a massive increase in drug dependent people in the US. You want to know why we have so many junkies on the street? Well here it is.

    We drug kids for a decade or more. Then they turn 18 or so and they are cut off. So they self medicate looking for the same high as the drugs they have been on for long periods. They want the high. Call it what it is. Nothing less nothing more.

    ADHD is BS. We have to stop putting this label on kids. Kids are KIDS. They have tons of energy as they grow and mature. We have taken away outlets from most kids that we use to have a generation ago. You don't see kids outside running around on the playgrounds in the grass, riding bikes (no e bikes don't count). So you confine them and act surprised that they act up.

    We have taken away discipline and fear of consequences. It's not abuse. It's behavioral correction. It's necessary. Nothing genetically changed in the last two generations that removed this need. The woke nonsense has done more damage. Push back. Force them to prove what they are saying. Kids need to learn to cope with how they are. Too many now adults are using this nonsense as a crutch to make excuses for themselves.

  18. Here's another big unmentioned problem here, these diagnoses are often not done by psychiatrists who are actual medical doctors, aka physicians. Somewhere in the 1980s the mental health field was taken away from psychiatrists with their slow talk therapy. Instead, nurses, counselors, social workers, and many others were allowed to make diagnoses and to prescribe medicine without being physicians. Not the best idea. Many are women, possibly Karens, making these judgements.

  19. I have not read article yet, I will though and thankful for their writings.
    On a side: On Court TV I’ve been watching the trial of MA v. Lindsay Clancy. A mother who killed her 3 small children and then jumped out of a window to commit suicide. She is now paralyzed. The last several days, they’ve been talking to her psychiatrist and nurse practitioners discussing all the different meds she was taking. Taking this, trying that, dabbling with the unknowns of the effects of these dangerous drugs. Very sad, but very interesting and then sickening.

  21. My fourth-grade teacher cured more cases of ADHD than I can count. She carried a yard stick around the classroom and as soon as someone began looking out of the window or otherwise not paying attention to her, a quick rap across the knuckles cured the issue for the rest of the schoolyear, and likely beyond. She remains one of my favorite teachers to this day because in her class, the alternative to paying attention in class wasn't a pleasant one.

    • I'll never forget the day that my 1st grade teacher tied Nicky, who never sat still, to her desk by the bow ties on her Polly Flinders dress. You would get fired and prosecuted for that move today, but it worked at least for that day!

      • IN MY SCHOOL IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR TEACHER STUDENT FIGHTS. THERE WAS NO PROSECUTIONS AND EVERYONE HAD A GUN IN THE TRUCK RACK. THAT WAS FOR DEER NOT PU*SIES WITH NO IMPULSE CONTROL. KIDS ARE WILD ANIMALS AND TAMING THEM SOME TIMES REQUIRE THE STICK AND SOMETIMES REQUIRED THE CARROT.

    • I OFTEN SAT UP FRONT AND WAS GIVEN SPECIAL PROJECTS B/C {I WAS WICKED SMAAT} AND FINISHED MY WORK QUICKLY AND WANDERED. SO I ENDED UP SITTING NEXT TO THE TEACHERS…I WAS NOT THE PET I WAS TO "PROJECT"

  23. I don't think ADHA is a defect. I think the defect is in society that require us to 'just be normal'. For some of us our base operating speed is just set a little higher than others. Our stride is just a little wider than some.

  25. Brought to you by despicable profiteers; big pharma and their cohort, big "mental health".

    I also see it as diminishing potential since the Marxists want a compliant population.

  26. This junk science started when the APA CHANGED THEIR DSM MANUAL that made the symptoms of ADD and ADHD so broad and vague that most children could be categorized as having these conditions, then allowing quacks into public schools to push these harmful Big pharma meds onto children.

    • Would you like a fat laugh?

      Read about the therapeutic, linguistic, scholastic, academic, political…bloodsheds roaring for three years! Was it to be DSM-5 or DSM-V!

      • Sorry, I don’t get your question. I just mean Musk works incredibly hard and, incidentally, may have created more millionaires than Gates (before he was evil incarnate) and Jobs combined. I don’t KNOW that but I suspect it is true.

  29. Hoft lives in a strange world where no child has any behavioral disorder treatable with medication.

    While I will agree that many, more likely most diagnosis in the ADD family are simply lazy MDs refusing to call out bad parenting, these disorders DO exist. I've seen them first hand.

    The goal of correcting the rampant problems with modern medical practices is admirable, but Joe sees EVERY problem as a nail to be hammered in with his anti-medication phobia.

    • The Hofts and AbleChild are only bringing good information to all. There are far too many people being prescribed all these different and dangerous drugs/medications. Especially children. We see the awful effects of this on a daily basis. We are a nation of overmedicated people. Some are probably helped, many are harmed. I commend the Hofts and AbleChild for bringing this to our attention and for their valuable information.
      I went to school in the late 1960’s-70’s. I never heard or knew of any medicated kids then. I wish I could site a wonderful sermon I heard on this exact subject. It was a personal experience of this man and his family maneuvering through the Mental Health system. I wish everyone could hear it.

      • What part of my last sentence did you not understand?

        While Joe has done some good work in this area he has a horrible case of subjective validation. This nation is regularly subjected to fad diagnosis of mental health disorders that coincide with the introduction of new drugs designed to treat said disorder. Overdiagnosis, or what’s known as Conclusions Fads. Mostly in the psychiatric arena.

        Anxiety in the 60’s, treated with Valium. It was called mother’s little helper. Multiple personality disorder in the 70’s. Depression and bi-polar in the 80’s and 90’s, with lithium to start followed by various 2nd and 3rd generation meds. The entire ADD family at the same time period, followed by autism and Spectrum diagnosis in the 00’s. And on and on and on.

        What happens is obvious. Big pharma bribes the MDs to promote the drug. We KNOW it happens. The marketing practices of pharma are now subject to major legal restrictions. It still exists to a lesser degree and is still a major problem.

        However, articles like this one are horribly irresponsible. ADHD DOES exist, it IS a serious disorder in SOME children. And it IS treatable to a certain degree with (GASP) medication.

        Joe throws the child out with the bathwater. His zeal to take down the pharma community ignores the fact that every one of the drugs he opposes has a real, measurable and valid treatment value for those children who actually suffer from (insert disorder here). The diagnosis existed BEFORE the drug. It is only when the greed factor kicks in that pharma and irresponsible doctors create a huge problem.

        • I wrote an opinion. I wasn’t arguing your point or disputing your experience. Sorry if that’s how I came across.

  31. Adderall is one of the most common ADHD drugs. It is nothing but amphetamine, a drug deemed too dangerous for UA adults around 1970, but deemed somehow ok for children.

  32. ADHD—–Locking up boys in rooms for hours on end without allowing them freedom to run, play, and compete with each other, is what causes adhd.

    • Agreed. I’ve always thought boys and girls learn differently and need different activities. Kids need P.E. and recess to burn some of that energy.

      • I finished grade school in 1956, we always got recess twice a day, rain or shine, and in WA Stae, there is usually plenty of rain. We all seemed to survive.

    • COMPETING IS WRONG AND IMMORAL. THERE IS A COLLEGE IN WISCONSIN I THING WHERE THEY ARE WITH HOLDING THE 1ST YEAR GRADES SO THE "KIDS" CAN ADJUST AND COPE WITH COLLEGE.
      AMERICA IS SO SOFT THAT THE WRONG PRONOUN COULD RUIN THEIR DAY.

      BRING BACK THE VIOLENT ABUSIVE BULLIES AND COMPETITION FOR THE WOMEN. I GET TIME TRAVEL AND I AM GOING BACK TO THE EIGHTIES AND SEVERLY BEATING THE FIRST PERSON THAT CORRECTS MY CAP LOCKS DISCRETION, DEMANDS TO CALLED A POC INSTEAD OF TAR BABY OR SPEAR CHUCKER.

  33. Remember it's often not medical doctors diagnosing you and or your children with ADHD, it's the God _ damned lazy-@ss Marxist Unionized public school teachers; who diagnosed you and or your children in school.

    The school then gives you a referral to a psychiatrist, who of course gets paid by BIG PHARMA to say yep, this child is afflicted, and must be proscribed personality and mood altering drugs for the rest of their life, to keep them docile and drooling in the corner during Mrs. Strong's 5th grade class. Better babysitting though Chemicals!

    From mother's little helper to the Union Teacher's best friend in the classroom. Dozens of kids doped up and zonked out on Adderall. Her day just got so much easier when all the little kiddos are drooling zombies. No more kids with the Zoomies at recess.

  34. A teacher who didn’t know how to teach reading wanted my son on Ritalin because he looked out the window a lot. To shut her up we asked the doctor. Even he said Ritalin was not appropriate. So we taught our son to read.

    • Should have done that in the first place!! My Mother had me reading at 2nd or 3rd grade level when I started in the 1st grade!! I looked out the window a lot too!!!

        • I have NO IDEA what your "PITA IDIOT" slur even means!!! I follow God's science, NOT Satan!!

          So NO, I didn't have ANY of the drugs that your parents TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY TO "CURE" YOU WITH!!!! Outside of smallpox and polio, I've never had any vaccinations, including flu shots, and I never get the flu!!

          Zinc supplements+ionophores+natural/acquired immunity has protected me for the past, almost 60 years, even from covid as I refused the death shot, and purposely went to public places to ensure being exposed to it!! Still didn't catch it!! I must be Blessed!!

          • PITA
            PAIN
            IN
            THE
            A** (DONKEY)
            AGREED THE FLU SHOTS ARE SCARY ESPECIALLY POST COVID (FYI COVID IS A 15,000 YEAR OLD FLU} NO VIRUS MUTATES MULTIPLE TIMES IN A YEAR AS IT WOULD KILL THE VIRUS, SO THESE FLU SHOTS (WHAT STRAIN MAY COME IS BS} ARE SNAKE OIL AT BEST.

            I AM OF THE MIND SMALL POX AND POLIO COULD HAVE A VACCINE BUT SINCE THEY CHANGED THE MEANING OF THE WORD VACCINE TO CALL THE CLOT SHOT A VACCINE, THE MEDICAL SYSTEM AS A WHOLE HAS LOST ALL CREDIBILITY. THESE DAY EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AVOIDED BEING THAT WE DONT REALLY KNOW WHAT IS IN THE SHOT NO MATTER WHAT WE ARE TOLD IT IS.
            THIS IS COMPLETE INSANITY.

          • I do agree with what you say, remembering my smallpox and even Dr.Salk’s polio “vaccines” were administered PRIOR to my ability to consent, and was supplied by my parents!

          • CONSERVATIVES ARE THE DEMOCRAT/REPUBLICANS OF THE 50’S – 80’S WE ARE SAYING THE SAME THING FROM DIFFERING POINTS OF VIEW BUT STILL AMERICA FIRST;. SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN WE WERE AT WORK AND THE COMMIES SNUCK IN. WE CAN FIGHT ALL DAY LONG BUT WE ARE STILL AMERICANS…. THE LEFT ARE NOT AMERICANS AND THE REST OF US BETTER DOI SOMETHING B/C OUR GOVERNMENT IS HOSTILE.

  35. Check with the Amish. I strongly suspect you'll learn they have no ADHD, just as they have no autism or other neuro problems….b/c they don't vaccinate. I love dogs & raised them for over 50 yrs. The vaxxed had all kinds of problems, including behavioral & neurological, including dementia. My unvaxxed had none of it. They lived 2x as long, had greater intelligence, no chronic diseases & were never sick. Vaxs cause chronic inflammation, including in the brain & a weakened/destroyed immune system.

  36. The western one room schoolhouse! The cream rose to the top. The milk was educated.
    The very worst bottom rancid cheese became public servants…all at their own optimal pace.

  37. All the “symptoms” sounded like “being a kid”. Teachers and others don’t want to have to deal with typical boy behavior and the medical establishment (including pharmaceutical companies) want to make money what used to be typical child behavior.

  39. Quote: There are lots of people who talk too much, and most are in Congress. – end

    Psychology and psychiatry are human attempts to justify sinful behavior, parental neglect, and public indoctrination to conformity, while making tons of money!

  40. I have two four year old granddaughters and because of their mothers lack of interest in cooking (I cooked and still do) they live in a world of packaged foods the likes of which Ive never seen and they never did. It also icludes a twelve year old and his mother has tried ADHD till the kid said Im not taking this, sickening!! If the two four year olds eat a hot dog everyone is cheering, like their chewing food for the first time!

  42. The woman has 5 kids; all the kids are diagnosed with ADD I looked at the kids and said, "Yep, all different dads

  44. So true. It's called "being a kid" and corrupt, incompetent control freaks can't stand it, for which they're the ones who should be on meds or put in an insane asylum in a straitjacket, not the precious kids.

  45. My mom had a cure for it a belt she also always told me, "I will clean your ears out from the bottom up."

  46. My husband and I both have ADHD to varying degrees, his being the more severe. I believe that it comes from having too many choices of things to do which become distractions from each other. My husband's is more severe than mine, but we share common traits that cause us to get easily bored and distracted. I think most kids, especially little boys ,are just bored by ineffective teaching.

  47. I REALLY HATE "WRITERS" THAT HIDE THE POINT IN LAYER UPON LAYER OF SEGUE TRASH FILLER.

    * START/STATE YOUR ASSERTION {WHY}
    * DESCRIBE YOUR THEORY {WHAT
    * IF NEED BE ADD IN THE HISTORY OR REASON THIS IS EVEN A VALID POINT,STORY OR HOW IT AFFECTS THE READER. { WHEN}
    * WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN AND WHERE ARE YOU GOING WITH THIS. {WHERE}
    * WHO DOES IT APPLY TO OR WHO IS AFFECTED {WHO}

    HAVE SOME LINEAR CONTEXTUAL POINTS {FLOW}

    LIL TIL FOR THE COLLEGE KIDS:
    IF NEED BE, MISSPELL A WORD OR TWO TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE YOU ACTUALLY WROTE THE ARTICLE INSTEAD OF COPY PASTED A FRANKENSTEIN STORY.

    ONLY USE BOLD TYPE WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO STRESS FRUSTRATION,EXCITEMENT OR IRE.

  48. "For example, “condition” is a broad neutral term for a state of health while “disorder” denotes a specific medical term for a disruption to normal body or mind functions.", but if the condition is that of 20-30% of the population, a plurality, during some or all of that person's life, would that not be not just a normally found pattern of behavior?

  49. I have always stated there is no such thing. The kids are either lazy or disinterested. It's really that simple.

  50. IT'S A POISONING, DIDN'T EXIST PRIOR TO VACCINES. Big pharma pushing drugs and schools who get lots of government funding if they can mark children with these conditions. Follow the $$$$$$$$. Also boys especially shouldn't be expected to sit all day long. Boys & Girls need activity to burn off energy.

  51. here's the issue. ADHD IS a medical condition. the brain doesn't make enough dopamine. this is the "feel good" hormone but it's also the one that bridges the gap between synapses in order to complete a thought.
    I know what it is. I have it.
    I'm not going to argue about it. I do know that this article is full of crap though.

    have a neurologist test you. that's all I'm gonna say about it.

  52. There is correlation, imo, regarding today's diets.
    Our food supply has been fed and/or sprayed increasingly with more chemicals, injected with more "vaccinations", over processed with added preservatives and artificial colors and flavors.
    There is so much non-food being consumed now than ever before.

  53. Sitting at a desk for 5+ hours everyday is not natural for most boys, but liberal academia has a hard time understanding various things, that is one of many reasons why America is in deep trouble.

    • I worked as a therapist in the school system with lots of boys labeled ADD and ADHD. I found most of them to be bright and very smart and the ordinary classroom where teachers could only move the class at the rate of the slower students bored them to tears.

  54. It most certainly is not a medical condition. It's a rotten parent condition. It happens most often in the children of parents that never taught their children self-control/self-discipline,

    • you do that to me as a teacher and im a 15,16,17 year old male student and im going to cave your face in before you could draw your hand back.

      then what?

      i went to school with kids who would have wiped the floor with any teacher who LOOKED at them crooked, let alone slapped their hand in front of the class. that would have gotten them a hospital visit.

      i dont know where you went to school but ‘authority’ had to temper itself at mine.

      • Teachers in the 60's would have beat your a$$ for fun , this is before you snowflakes all had protections and time outs

        • my father smacked a brother right in his face at holy cross high school in 1966 and guess what the brother did? had him thriwn out because if he smacked him again my father woukd have broken his neck.

          i would have done the same then.

          you might be the püssy youre describing, im not. i dont care when it was, I would mop the floor with any teacher that raised their hand to me. i dont care what trials theyve been through in life. you either fight or you dont and you sound like you dont.

          • your name frightens me too much.

            what form of communication are you using, dipshït?

            i always chuckle when the ‘keyboard’ warrior label is given by keyboard.

          • All these responses let me know all I need to know , you are nothing more than a coward . Move along

          • you realize you’re speaking through your computer, right dimwit?

            what’s your address, King Kong?

          • one of the most ridiculous assumptions is thinking the era you come from will win you fights.

            do you know anything about fighting other than your grade school teachers were the absolute masters of it?

            ill give you 1 piece of advice, nostalgia is not a very good defense.

          • how about you eat shït?

            thats another option.

            you do not seem to get how this works. no wonder teachers beat your äss for fun.

          • i live in your head.

            be happy your dusty old ass isnt going to confront me because you wouldnt have time to get your hands up.

            if teachers were beating your ass in the 60’s, id stomp another hole in it today.

            you didn’t have super powers in your youth and you definitely do not now.

        • those same teachers were around in the 80’s and 90’s and took some of those beatings i was talking about. they had this idea they were invincible just like you.

          Then i watched a senior bouncing one of your quintessential 60’s tough guys off a locker until the cops had to save him

          careful with this idea that your era gives you superpowers

          thats how you find yourself on the wrong end of a brutal äss whipping

        • if a teacher decided to ‘beat my ass for fun’ there would be 50 students waiting outside for their turn at the fun.

          maybe Chicago really is different. maybe there are tulips everywhere else that let grown ups beat their asses for fun.

          it didn’t happen where i lived. that teacher would get the education

          we had enough testosterone to go around and tough guy teachers may have known this and kept their hands to themselves because they knew it could get them seriously injured if they got too brave.

  60. ‘One has to decide if wiggling and talking out of turn is so bad that it’s worth the possible adverse events that may occur’

    Joe Hoft condensing it down to that tells me he has no idea how complex the brain is and how these drugs DO help some individuals who have struggled with a mind thats been all over tye place with no explanation or pattern.

    i resisted medication for DECADES and it was the stupid thing I ever did.

    how about mind your own business?

  61. ADHD is environmentally caused, like all the other fashionable "conditions": Autism, transgenderism, etc.

  62. As the mother of two ADHD boys, I can tell you right on that there is a total personality that goes with this condition and there is devastating depression that these children go through. With the oldest one, we were clueless. He was in a small private school where he got so much help that his condition was disguised until he got into private highschool with larger classes and he was lost. I didn't know until he graduated late that the lady at Hardee's near the school had been calling the school many times to say that he was sick and would be absent. When I dropped him off in the morning, he would head over there first. This situation travels into many avenues. The kids have feelings of inferiority knowing that they can't keep up with the others. They go through depression, rebellion, much anger, are prone to drugs and alcohol, and even crime.
    Ten years later, we had learned a lot and were fortunate enough to get a special loan on our house to put the second one in a private school that was just for this condition. At the first meeting of the parents that school year, the headmaster gave a speech to the new parents and said: " In the homes of ADHD children, the father usually feels that the kid just needs a good, quick, kick in the butt. And the mothers are often over protective while understanding the depth of the problem." That was the real picture in our home for sure. That school guided our younger son through all the problems that the older one suffered. It was an old teaching method that taught by rote administered by an old fashioned nun who was very saintly. And the children excelled!! They were with other children with the same issues that they had themselves. They grew up with good friends. The difference was so great that they are still felt today with the marked examples of our two children — careers, job stability, income, marriages, and personal development. Don't ever think this is just a behavior issue. These kids can thrive in a school that understands them and provides the climate that each of them needs. The suggestion that they just need a good beating is one that turns them into deviants in society, when in truth, they need special loving guidance.

  63. Born in '57. If you didn't pay attention, "WHAM." You quickly learned to pay attention. Delayed gratification and IMMEDIATE consequences were and still are, EXTREMELY effective, though hardly employed.

      • The first and last time my Nonnie washed my mouth out, i couldn't believe how strong that little lady was! I wasn't fighting back, she had a Kung Fu grip on my jaw!!

  65. I knew a kid without the meds was a hyper classroom jest; with the meds, he settled down and became problem-free. He had an attention span of a gnat

  66. It's diet related. Look at the amount of sugar kids injest every day. At home, in school. Maybe vaccines contribute too. Kids today are even coming down with fatty liver disease! Little kids who have never had any alcohol. What's up with that!?

    • Yes, diet is totally related. Now add in parental involvement, I bet 99% of them set on their phone or gaming device, while momma is taking a quaalude or dealing with their boyfriend.

      The last part of my statement is a little dramatic, but there is some true to it about momma's.

      • THESE QUAALUDES YOU SPEAK OF…..DID YOU BRING ENOUGH TO SHARE WITH THE CLASS?

        YOU SPELLED IT RIGHT SO I KNOW YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE). ;))

        YOU POINT IS EXEMPLIFIED BY WATCHING OUR GOVERNMENT IN ACTION.ALL WE EVER HEAR IS WARNING AFTER WARNING LIKE THAT IRRITATING MOM THAT COUNTS TO 10 SO OFTEN THE KID IGNORES HER.

        LESS WARINGS AND MORE BEATINGS WILL END THESE TOOTHLESS WARNINGS.

        NEXT WE TEACH LIL JONNY SOME MANNERS AFTER HE LEARNS TO CALM DOWN

        • SUGARY SNACKS ARE FOR SINGLE DADS DROPPING THE KIDS OFF AT MOMS HOUSE ON SUNDAY AFTER NOON.
          MAINLINE SOME SUGAR INTO THEM SO MOM GETS THEM DRUGS YOU TAKE FROM THEM WHEN THEY SHOW UP ON FRIDAYS.

    • Every woman in my family has ADD and my mother was born in 1924. It is on the normal spectrum of learning and it is being medicalized. Now perhaps the severe hyperactivity is a result of vaccines and over processed food.

        • Bunk! All the years the US has had kids begging for candy on Halloween, and NONE of those "poor sugar drugged kids" went on a sugar-high rampage the next day! I've heard this sugar-high nonsense all of my 8 decades on this planet, and yet to see any kid or adult that was high on sugar!!! ADHD, Autism, even asthma*, are mostly "Mother diseases"'!!!!

          *yes, asthma can have underlying physical conditions, but 99% of "asthmatic" kids I was ever around when growing up. ALWAYS seemed to get much worse, ONLY when Mama was nearby! One of those was a track star in my High School, but with Mama around, he'd start breathing weird, every time! On the track, no one could catch him in the first 100-200 yards!!

          • I agree with you. I would have been labeled ADD or ADHD if it had been around in the early 60's. Back then it was called being an active little boy. The medicine I took was a hand or paddle applied to my backsides. It seemed to work, until it wore off and I would have to take my medicine again. I didn't turn out to be a violent psycho monster, angry with everyone. I was taught discipline. And therein lies the problem. Parents don't parent anymore. They listen to the liberal garbage and accept everything without checking if it is correct or not. "Experts" don't know squat. Sugar? No that wasn't the problem. It just helped move things along.

        • IT EXISTS BUT THE CAUSE IS LAYERED POISON IN THE FOOD AND PARENTAL CONTROL OR LACK THEREOF.
          MORE PILLS ARE NOT GOING TO STOP THIS FROM GROWING.
          FOOD,ELIMINATING CHEMICALS AND EXERCISE WILL BREED THIS POISON OUT OF THE CHILDREN.

        • Almost everything you eat, is turned into sugar, by your digestive processes, to be used by your body!!! Maybe you should study up on the biology of living creatures!!!

          • You could stop eating sugar and carbohydrates for the rest of your life as long as you were eating protein and animal fats you would survive and be healthy. Our bodies make as much sugar as we need, any additional sugar is stored as fat! Especially belly fat.

          • Well, I eat sweets without worrying about it, and my belly is the same girth today as it was when I graduated from boot camp back in 1967, and my weight is the same!!! The difference is, I have gotten plenty of exercise over the intervening years, burning off those excess calories!!

          • WELL YEAH BUT ADDING IN CHEMICALS THAT DONT EXIST IN NATURE DISRUPTS THAT NATURAL PROCESS. OUR BODIES ARE STILL RATHER PRIMITIVE AND ARE NOT DESIGNED TO EAT SO MUCH RAW SUGAR.

      • There is no single official master number, but regulatory comparisons indicate that dozens of common food additives and chemical ingredients allowed in the United States are banned or strictly restricted in other regions, with the European Union alone barring over 90 chemicals and additives that routinely show up in U.S. foods

    • Being born in 1990 for me it was video games. How do you expect a kid to sit still and do practically nothing for 8 hours when such entertainment exists?

      They tried to drug me up, but my parents weren't having any of that luckily for me.

      • That's exactly IT- forcing children to stay silent when they are looking for something to do. FARMS WERE WONDERFUL. No ADHD on FARMS.

    • Add to this a lack of parenting in self-control, discipline, and impulse control and removing any ability of teachers to discipline in the classroom, and you find the perfect storm of behavior problems that , for the most part, didn't exist before terrible dietary intake and terrible parenting and school policy.

      • The first generation to be handed the “ smart” phones at age nine have come of age and they’re a mess.

    • Since 1986 there hasn’t been liability for vaccines so the recommended/ required number has skyrocketed. (That and ultrasounds for all unborn babies. I remember when ultrasound was started they said they didn’t know if they were safe or not so the practice was limited.) Thers a lot of “ neurological differences” and autoimmune disease in the young born since then.

    • Fatty liver disease could be vax related. Autism took a big upswing after the vax, wouldn't surprise me if this was related, also.

    • NUH UH!
      IT SAYS LOW SUGAR RIGHT THERE ON THE LABEL.

      THERE ARE ABOUT 8-10 COMPOUNDS THAT TASTE SWEET LIKE SUGAR AND ARE NOT. THESE SUGARS ARE NOT LISTED UNDER SUGAR CONTENT BECAUSE OF THE FDA CHANGING THE MEANING OF WORDS LIKE THEY DID WITH VACCINE.THEY ARE SOME MYSTERY FOOD/ INGREDIENT
      . WHEN SNACKS OR FOOD TARGETING KIDS IS ALLOWED TO CONTAIN CHEMICALS THAT ARE TOXIC IN LARGER DOSES AMERICA LOSES.
      IT SHOULD NOT TAKE CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL TO BAN FOOD/INGREDIENTS KNOWN TO BE POISON WORLD WIDE BY OTHER COUNTRIES.

      BP CLEANED UP THE GULF WITH CHEMICALS BANNED IN GREAT BRITAIN, FOR THERE TOXIC POISONS LEFT AFTER THEY COMBINE THE SPILLS TO SINK…..THUS KILLING OR POISONING ALL SHELL FISH BOTTOM FEEDER FOR DECADES TO COME.

      THE POINT IS: POISON IS INJECTED INTO OUR FOODS FROM NOT JUST MANUFACTURING BUT ALL INDUSTRIES FOR LACK OF REAL OVERSIGHT.

        • WHERE IN MY POSTS DID YOU SEE I NEEDED HELP WITH MY DIET? JUST BECAUSE IT WAS A "FARMERS MARKET" DOES NOT MAKE THE FOOD SAFE. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SAID "FARMER" DID TO THAT FOOD IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE YIELD. I.E. PESTICIDES WATER SOURCE ETC.

          DONT LECTURE ME W/O ACTUALLY THINKING IT THROUGH BRIGHT EYES.

    • And vac cin nes. "ADHD exists within the Amish community, though it is rarely diagnosed".
      Why is that? Why does the Amish have lower rates of Diabetes, and other health issues?
      Vac cin nes.
      My neighbor, who no one in her family has diabetes. She never had any indication of diabetes and was completely healthy. She got a tetanus shot and within less than 6 months she has now full blown diabetes and has to carry insulin and a monitor with her every where she goes.
      People do no understand that a lot of the health issues we're having today, are coming from these.

    • When congress proposed limiting food eligible for Snap, and it was defeated – they really missed the boat! Ineligible for prepared desserts – for example when you're in the store and hungry!, soda!!, candy, (imo) ice cream too. Not only would the money be spent on something to resolve hunger, but there would be more of it left at the end of the month. It WOULD HAVE BEEN a good thing. Fatty, salty, food like CHIPS. Cold Cereal is a go to for people who don't want to cook but it is NOT good food. These foods are not only junk – THEY ARE EXPENSIVE.

      • THEY DID NOT MISS THE BOAT…THEY ARE DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS ABUSE OF OUR TAXES. KEEPING PEOPLE SICK AND DEPENDENT WITH THE GOAL OF DISABILITY AT AGE 22.
        TO MAKE IT EASY ;
        SHOW ME ONE TIME THE GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY DID SOMETHING ANYTHING THAT WAS GOOD FOR OR HEALTHY FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS. ALL OF THESE CHEMICALS WERE APPROVED BY THE FDA. LOBBYISTS EXIST IN MORE AREAS THAN BIG OIL AND GAS.
        THERE ARE A PLETHORA OF TOXIC CHEMICALS IN OUR FOOD THAT HAVE BEEN BANNED BY OTHER NATIONS FOR ANY REASON NOT JUST FOOD.
        EXAMPLE BELOW-
        ** There is no single official master number, but regulatory comparisons indicate that dozens of common food additives and chemical ingredients allowed in the United States are banned or strictly restricted in other regions, with the European Union alone barring over 90 chemicals and additives that routinely show up in U.S. foods

    • It's about sleep, diet and a total lack of parental discipline.

      If I wrote a book about it, I would title it: Secret….

      • IT'S ABOUT SHOPPING CHILDREN OUT TO HIRED SITTERS, AND ABANDONING PARENTING ALTOGETHER, so mothers can get 'real jobs'

        • THE NEW PLAN IS "CHILD CARE" TAX FUNDED FROM BIRTH TO COLLEGE IN ORDER TO STEAL GROOM OUR CHILDREN. STATE RAISED BRATS AND THE PARENTS REPLACE THE FLAG PEOPLES INABILITY TO HAVE KIDS B/C DRESSING AS A WOMAN DOES NOT MAKE ONE ABLE TO CARRY A CHILD.

          THE ALPHABET GENDER CONFUSED CAN NOT HAVE KIDS SO THEY GROOM YOURS.

  68. Dr. Iona Heath is in trouble now. Just for being right, her show next year will get canceled when no one is looking.

  69. ADHD is caused by food dyes. I tested it on my own kids 30 years ago. M&M's would send them spinning into the ceiling, especially Red dye #40, but unadorned chocolate, nada. No reaction. But once the big wigs identified a real part time ailment, caused by part time poisoning, they expanded the definition to include ALL normal childhood behaviors, in order to profitably drug ALL children.

  70. Medicalization of normal behavior and everyday life makes money, lots of it, for… pharmaceutical companies.

  72. Take it from me: The Mental Health field needs a MAJOR INVESTIGATION.

    For instance, how many trillion of dollars go into it for so little results?

  75. The greatest threats to Democrapcy are educated students who can read, write, do simple sums, and arrive at real world conclusions. Primary goals of free food, zero standards, kindergarten reversed sexuality, and political indoctrination versus…

    The Gifted Child! – self-energized forever threats with unlimited energies.
    Pharmaceutically cauterized, forever cured.

    Does your Gifted Child have a stuffed nose? Addict him to antihistamines. They cross the blood-brain barrier, cause brain inflammation…and selectively ablate serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine transmissions. Gifted ➤ Democrap without a worry or care, irreversibly forever.

    Nuisance child or mother-in-law? NYQUIL brain wiring snuffer! Doxylamine (anticholinergic, irreversible cognitive decline) and Phenylephrine I (powerful postsynaptic α-receptor stimulant).
    Ask yourself – does my child suffer roaring truck diesel thoughts? Pull plugs in gentle ways.

    This isnot diagnosis, prognosis, prescription, and/or treatment.
    Democrapcy will come for you, then remediate free of charge.

  76. one opinion is that attention deficits begin when small children/babies are placed in front of tv and other screens that are used as baby sitters on a regular basis. Screen images flash by very quickly compared to real life and the early developing child's brain entrains to this pattern. Later, the child has difficulties with attention to real life situations, like normal life and school where lessons move very slowly compared to images on the screens that the child has repeatedly stared at for the first several years of his life. I believe there are even recommendations regarding this.

  77. I went to K-12 in the early 70's, and I am sure my teachers described me as above in paragraph #4. Yes I got the Green Ritalins too.
    Attention Deficit. More like I am just not interested in what you are talking about – I got other things on my mind.
    After 40 years Nothing has changed.

  78. ~ 20 years ago there must have been a coordination between the Insurance industry and Big Psyche. We often see healthcare scam cycles – periods in healthcare where a certain condition balloons due to lucrative profit and ease of approval for the procedure.
    As a Dental healthcare provider for over 30+ years, I would recognize 5-10 yr spans where all my patients were getting knee replacements, or a sudden jump in hysterectomies, etc.

    Then there was the mental health push, where kids were suddenly all being tested for a condition that didn’t even exist 5 years before. And it’s a hard sell to get these children into these gov subsidized programs. They had/have a system and they work the system hard… just like they are now doing with the gender dysphoria treatment(?) game.

    For example, my own son was identified as having ADHD. As the parent I was present during the testing. As a doctor, I could see what they were doing – something that regular parents may not see. The reason they gave was the “He lined up the Thomas The Train cars in a line”. When instructed to have a pretend Tea party and serve fake tea in pretty as pink tea cups, he refused and went back to the trains.

    My wife and I were called into a room with a long table, where we were positioned on one end and a make and female evaluator were on the other (guarding the exit door). The young lady presented their findings and inquired which program schedule we would accept with their specialists. When we said we wanted time to discuss this at home (a courteous way to get us out of there), they ramped up the pressure with the male now raising his voice as if to try and intimidate me/us for “failing our child” and in essence teetering on child negligence threats.

    Other parents may have succumbed to the fairly intense pressure from the “authority figure(s)”. Not me. I stood up, gave them a few obligatory WTF’s and some heated Foff’s, stating that if you try and speak with my child without my presence or if you try to contact (harass) us further, things will not go the way they may hope.

    This same tactic is being used against today’s kids, but now the big money is in trans RX and surgery. Freak creator NGOs and lobbies are boosting corp profit at the expense of normal humanity. The same ridicule from these fake authority figures, the same threats of damaging your child’s development, the same sponsored data created to support the grift… or worse.

    How did America survive when we didn’t have ADHD profit center specialists? Much better, thank you!

    One only wonders what middle class wealth stealing idiocy could be coming next?

    Oh ya… I forgot about the Plandemic vax for pregnant mothers and youth. It’s always something. Follow the money!

  79. A kid who can't focus in the face of the curricula and teaching in a worthless government monopoly school is likely a genius who needs to be homeschooled instead of indoctrinated and destroyed by the government. Actually EVERY CHILD DESERVES THAT KIND OF LOVE.

  80. AAAAMEN!!! AND WE'VE FACKED UP A COUPLE OF GENERATIONS OF CHILDREN WITH ALL OF THE SCREWY MEDS!

    Knew a kid who was on the drugs and was in foster care! They gave him terrible stomach aches!!! He'd complain, but they'd make him take them anyway… I've often wondered where he is today….

  81. NO! Someone YOU cannot misquote!!!

    And YES, I am a guy!!

    Proudly MALE sex the moment I was conceived in my Mother's womb, and a living human at that moment as well, 8 decades ago!! In God's care ever since!

  83. As a hyperactive child in the 1950's, long before Ritalin became "the fix", when I reflect on my elementary school years, the 4 best experiences were with teachers who had 5+ years of experience and who obviously knew/learned how to deal with potentially disruptive students; the worst years? 2 teachers with only 1 and 2 years experience. I survived without meds and became a productive adult. Stop being lazy parents and teachers by pushing the meds!

    • can you remember how the experienced teachers dealt with your hyperactivity? It is said that the best entrepreneurs were those hyperactive kids.

  84. My brother had ADHD. He wasn't running on all eight. He was running on all TWELVE!… With NO BRAKES! The term "Wallbanger" fit…

  85. My idiot sister's son was diagnosed with "ADHD". She came for a visit and for breakfast, this kid had a soda, a bag of M & M's. For lunch, a giant Otis Spunkmeyer chocolate muffin. Dinner, chicken fingers and fries which he barely touched but got dessert, ice cream with the works at her urging. The kid spazzed out all day, obviously. See it all the time, "parents" pushing three, four, five year olds around in strollers all day while pumping sugar into them then wonder why their kids have problems focusing on anything. She grew up in the same house as me; bulk whole wheat flower and oats, garden, home grown beef, my mom canned everything, no packed products etc..,.
    My dad howles about high fructose corn syrup way back in the 60's. She knows better. It's child abuse.

  86. I had about '65' symptoms of ADD/ADHD. Slept non stop. I was not suicidal, but everyday I wanted to die. I couldn't even wash a dish. For 22 years I took up to 40mg of Adderall. A really good doctor diagnosed me with severe hypothyroidism and prescribed T3. No more Adderall, no more narcolepsy, no more depression, I can focus and get things done.

  88. It has to be!!! How else can big pharma justify administering psychotropic drugs to youngsters and adults?

  90. A lot of child behavior can be adjusted with good nutrition and projects at home. Most things in life start with the parents. But unfortunately, the schools are interfering more and more. Plus there are parents that prefer to have kids but not parent.

    As a society, we need to value our children way more than we do.

  91. Having treated ASD (autism spectrum disorder) children as a charity, there are several things that I noted. The first thing I did was write a letter saying no more childhood vaccines. Many of the children had an MTHFR deficiency which required subcu injections of 5,000 mcg of methyl B12 3 times a week. Other B vitamins were deficient as many had a poor diet. Every one of the children had trace mineral deficiency. Many were on psychotropic drugs which carried black box warnings for suicide, etc. that had to be stopped. Many of the children made remarkable improvements. Some children turned out to have a high IQ when they followed directions. All were off drugs.

  92. Further evidence that America's children are just another herd of cash cows to the avaricious sociopaths of Big Pharma.

  93. Back in the 70's, active kids, who squirmed in thier seats, and found much of school bring and slow, were said to have "ants in thier pants". My brother was like this, but all he needed was a lot more sport. He had a desperate need to run a long way, jump and kick balls or bat balls (cricket). He was always better after a good PE session. I suffered from the daydreaming – bored to death at school, I'd just mindlessly stare out of the window, watching the birds and squirrels. The teacher would ask me about my work – yeah I finished it ages ago, and I'd be left to my own thoughts until the others had finished.
    Back then, medicating us would have been considered serious child abuse.

  95. I've said that ADD and ADHD were fake for decades. Just a way to drug active and/or intelligent children.

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