Height/Weight: Re: [geeks] quiet

[David Cantrell]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 08:49:17AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> I'm convinced that nearly everyone has some mild form of ADD.

If nearly everyone has it, it shouldn't be described as a disorder then.
My opinion?  It's made-up bullshit designed to sell more drugs.

>                                                                My nephew
> was put on Ritalin for a couple months until his mother decided the ill
> effects outweighed the good.  He's able to concentrate on things if he's
> interested in them - he doesn't care for computers much, but will sit
> and listen to hour-long lectures on auto body repair or engine
> maintenance if he's allowed to ask questions.

Same here.  But I don't have a disease or a disorder, and I don't need to
take drugs to fix myself.  I just get bored easily.  As a kid, I would get
in to trouble when I tried to ... errm ... make things less boring, which,
as far as I can tell, is all that this pseudo-disease is.

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