Oh For God's Sake...!!
Dec. 4th, 2011 07:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanReally??
I mean... REALLY!!!!???
As if modern society isn't hands-off enough when it comes to dealing with people's disruptive behaviour ~ preferring to blame a 'condition' rather than lack of discipline/education or just plain bloody-minded laziness & encouraging us to take tablets instead of responsibility...
That's not to denigrate genuine disorders & the good work being done to identify & possibly correct them, but this is just lazy science with a commercial agenda.
"New ADHD symptoms that have been added to the manual include acting without thinking, being often impatient, being uncomfortable doing things slowly and systematically, and finding it difficult to resist temptation."
If that's so, we ALL have it...
I mean... REALLY!!!!???
As if modern society isn't hands-off enough when it comes to dealing with people's disruptive behaviour ~ preferring to blame a 'condition' rather than lack of discipline/education or just plain bloody-minded laziness & encouraging us to take tablets instead of responsibility...
That's not to denigrate genuine disorders & the good work being done to identify & possibly correct them, but this is just lazy science with a commercial agenda.
"New ADHD symptoms that have been added to the manual include acting without thinking, being often impatient, being uncomfortable doing things slowly and systematically, and finding it difficult to resist temptation."
If that's so, we ALL have it...
