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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you know how to get antibiotics for a sinus infection? 
Walk into minute clinic, tell them you had a cold almost two weeks ago and now your face hurts, especially when you bend over, oh...and your upper teeth hurt, and you’ve been using saline for 10 days and it’s not helping. Bingo - prescription.

Do you know how to get your kid diagnosed with ADHD? Walk into a psychiatrists office...tell them the kid can’t focus, kid can’t initiate or complete tasks, kid takes 4 hours to to 1 hour of homework, kid is trying hard with tutors and not making progress. One IQ test, a few achievement tests, and a report from a teacher corroborating that the kid is flaky and can’t put his phone down long enough to focus and ta-da, extra time in school and on SAT/ACT. When SAT and ACT kick back the paperwork, you appeal and almost always goes through. I’ve seen it happen multiple times.

This isn’t rocket science. There is no definitive test for ADHD, it’s simply reported symptoms. I know there are plenty of people who genuinely have ADHD, but there are plenty of high schoolers who don’t and got a diagnosis once their parents realized this wasn’t going the way they wanted it to. [/quote]

That is an interesting comparison.  Like many of us, I have a kid who has had medical issues that were easily treated with antibiotics and might well have killed him had he been diagnosed.  No one would suggest that because some people game the system, his infections should go untreated.

Same kid has major issues that impact learning and processing and processing speed.  His issues were diagnosed in part via EEG, not as simple as straight ADHD, but in order to qualify for accommodations he had to have extensive testing with times and untimed academic tests, IQ subtest scores, and documentation that he had been awarded similar accommodations at school and used his accommodations regularly.  So way more than just verbal report.  But even if you are right that people can game the system, is it fair to take away something he needs because other people misuse it?[/quote]

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