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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also think that for kids on the milder end of the spectrum, the dramatic changes to our education system in the last few decades make a huge difference.  My ADHD son had no issues at his relaxed outdoor-education K-1st program, but once he aged out and transitioned to a more traditional school with significant desk-work and less physical activity he began to struggle.  And that was a private school that still had 3 recesses per day and no testing.  If you had a kid like mine at a daycare or play-based preschool and put him into a standard public K with a big class, one recess per day and lots of emphasis on reading (and sitting), he would crash and burn.  The standard experience in K 30 or 40 years ago was much more like the play-based preschools of today.[/quote]

I agree with this.  After learning a lot about ADHD, I'm now convinced my father has it.  He's a pretty successful computer scientist.  It's unclear to me whether he would have had a hyperactive aspect as a child....he lived in a rural area where he got up, fed the animals, walked 2 miles to a one room school house where they just let him sit and read all day, walked home and did more manual labor.  The combination of a ton of exercise with a totally self-directed education may have masked all his hyperactivity.  We just don't have that lifestyle anymore.

But I also think that severity and prevalence of both ADHD and ASD are increasing due to environment factors, which probably include chemicals in the environment and the changes in bacteria in our guts.  I think we have only a really hash and incomplete picture of neurological development at this point.[/quote]

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