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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
We didn't have ADHD in our day, and we certainly didn't pump our kids full of drugs.
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There was a time when we didn't have cancer either, people just died for unknown reasons.
An increase in incidents isn't necessarily indicative of an increase in misdiagnosis, it can simply be that kids that previously were not being diagnosed now are.
And no caring parent or pediatrician is going to "pump our kids full of drugs", every responsible parent I've ever spoken with that has a kid with ADD/ADHD has talked about a constant journey of trial and error to find the right medication and the appropriate dosage.
It's a real problem and the medications can help.
Pretend one of the threads on CP is like your brain's thought process. You read through the thread sequentially, automatically prioritizing posts you have interest in based on context, poster's name (which you probably derive through peripheral vision of their avatar and shape of name, you don't necessarily read the name fully), earlier messages that post may be quoting, and a dozen other things which all happens at the back of your mind, while the front actually pays full attention to the post you are actually reading, all one after the other.
For someone with ADHD, every piece of info above happens at the same volume, so there's far less foreground and background processing, and all the posts are talking at the same time overtop each other.
At best it makes it difficult to separate out the most important information from the racket of all the other input, at worst it does this to a dangerous degree (imagine crossing a crosswalk where "finish crossing the crosswalk" and "hey look at that bug" have exactly the same level of priority in the brain.. it's dangerous).
