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[quote=Anonymous]NP.  Moving what I wrote on duplicate locked thread over here.

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My son is not ADHD but he dislikes most of his school. Fortunately he's accepted his parents' insistence that he get good grades. We talk a lot about how boring school is for him, even though much of his high school curriculum is the same as what his parents liked. This article hits really hard.

On DCUM, sometimes when people want to criticize what I write or what I mention about my kids, they give me an armchair diagnosis of some neurodivergence. To the point where I wonder if they are right, although I think it's more the result of the limited context of an anonymous Internet forum. I sometimes fall into what one quoted doctor called a category of people on "the left" who blame "post-industrial society" for the rise of ADHD.

Below are some sections of the article that caught my eye.

"Without the pills, they said, they just didn’t feel interested in the assignments they were supposed to be doing. They didn’t feel motivated. It all seemed pointless."

"Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 11.4 percent of American children had been diagnosed with A.D.H.D., a record high. That figure includes 15.5 percent of American adolescents, 21 percent of 14-year-old boys and 23 percent of 17-year-old boys. Seven million American children have received an A.D.H.D. diagnosis, up from six million in 2016 and two million in the mid-1990s."

"Sibley said it was important to remember that many of the symptoms of A.D.H.D. are actually pretty commonplace; at any given moment, she explained, the average American adult has two or three of them — halfway to an official diagnosis."
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