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Posted by aem7ac on Tue Dec 27 00:42:45 2005, in response to Re: Are railbuffs generally autistic?, posted by RonInBayside on Tue Dec 27 00:28:13 2005. ADHD is one such example. Medication plus behavioral therapy helps a lot but if you yank the medicine you don't do so well...ADHD is an interesting one. Notice I said earlier "the patient seeks relief"... since I am under the impression that ADHD mostly occur in children, it is hard to determine if the patient seeks relief or not. A schoolkid who has trouble focusing might just not be interested in maths or in literature; s/he might have trouble focusing only in maths and literature classes but never have any trouble focusing in "shop" class. Since the U.S. curriculum doesn't involve a shop class for elementary schoolkids, most school psychologists will probably mistake the kid for an ADHD child, and a psychiatrist who isn't paying attention might even prescribe medication. But the real solution might be to involve the child in activities that actually capture their attention, instead of artifical crap that is termed "elementary curriculum" these days. Is the patient seeking relief? For the child, s/he might not give a shit whether his behaviours are distracting for the rest of the class or not. As far as s/he is concerned, s/he is functioning perfectly adequately for his/her own purposes: that of seeking out mechanical objects to be fascinated with, and screw that math and literature BS. But from the perspective of the schoolteacher, the kid needs "treatment" with medication to calm him/her down. When I was in kindergarten, I was "diagnosed" with ADHD (recall this is in the 1980's in Asia, when this phenomenon was not well understood). We flatly refused medication (just as well we did, because those early medication was later shown to have unpleasent and long term side effects when administered on children), and today I am a functioning adult (by most people's standards) and don't have trouble focusing on transit planning, electrical engineering or psychology. I still get bored easily, but when I do, I just get up and wander around, does a cartwheel or two in the corridor, then go back to work. AEM7AC |
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