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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I recall Sir Ken Robinson's TED talk that included discussion of adhd and showed the variation in diagnosis rates in the US vs the rest of the world, and also between different US states. It makes me sad to read people here and elsewhere online say that their kid really needs these drugs. I imagine no one was taking them when these parents were in school in the 70s and 80s. If they lived in other countries, it wouldn't be as much of a possibility. Are big pharma or the educational system contributing factors in the US to the high rate of diagnosis?[/quote]

Yes, it's true that in the 70s and 80s people weren't diagnosed. In my family, 3 of 4 people who clearly have ADHD self medicated with alcohol and/or drugs as a result. As a result, some of us are willing to have our family members give stimulants a try if prescribed as there is evidence they can help avoid the need for self-medication. After learning more about ADHD after our child was diagnosed, I realized how misinformed I was from popular media and seeing/reading all the anti-med threads here and how it is possible with testing (6+ hours) to tell although learning the actual symptoms made it obvious to me our DK and my DH have it. I will say DK was a teen when diagnosed and I'm sure I would have been hesitant to start him earlier.[/quote]

DP. You cannot possibly be suggesting that the rates were actually the same but all of the people were just undiagnosed. I remember my classrooms. We moved around a lot and I went to a lot of different schools. And there's no way that more than at most one kid in every class had ADHD/behavioral issues. I remembered those kids. I was someone who wanted to listen and learn as much as possible from the teacher, and if someone was affecting that then I noticed. These days, it seems like half the class (sometimes the majority!) has some sort of behavioral issues that are "explained" by ADHD or other diagnoses. I do also remember the occasional kid with some learning issue like dyslexia (since sometimes the teacher would pair those students with one of the stronger students to try to help them a bit) but I don't think that's what we're discussing here. Overall, the kids were much more focussed, got their work done, managed to do their homework without a thousand excuses, and not stop the class from learning. The only school I remember where there was more than one such kid in a class was a school in a very low SES area that these days is rated a 1/10.

I know that parents want to believe that it was always that way that so many kids had ADHD, because then they don't have to accept that there are other factors involved, but it really wasn't. Not even close.[/quote]

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