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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you are in a private prep school w lots of wealthy families, you have no idea the amount of gaming to get extended time and/or calculators  going on for their kids. You have absolutely no idea how the whole system favors and tilts toward the wealthy. [/quote]

Sorry, but you do realize that everything the world has to offer favors the wealthy.  It's just how it works.  Health care, education, jobs, housing, you name it.  I still think wealthy people have every right to access to what they are able to pay for (i.e. a diagnosis for a LD), as long as it is legit.  And you can bet the majority of diagnoses and accommodations are legitimate -- otherwise College Board and ACT would not be in business.  Sorry, but your mediocre kid will have to compete against my very bright LD kid with extended time.  He will probably blow him out of the water even without the time frankly lol!!![/quote]

Talking of legit, I found this great summary of a medical fad from the 17-19th century...

Female hysteria was once a common medical diagnosis for women. It is no longer recognized by medical authorities as a medical disorder, but still has lasting social implications. Its diagnosis and treatment were routine for hundreds of years in Western Europe.[1] In Western medicine hysteria was considered both common and chronic among women. The American Psychiatric Association dropped the term hysteria in 1952. Even though it was categorized as a disease, hysteria's symptoms were synonymous with normal functioning female sexuality.[1] Women considered to have it exhibited a wide array of symptoms, including faintness, nervousness, sexual desire, insomnia, fluid retention, heaviness in the abdomen, shortness of breath, irritability, loss of appetite for food or sex, and a "tendency to cause trouble".[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_hysteria

The diagnosis fell out of favor.[/quote]

Are you implying that LDs will “fall out of favor”[/quote]

Some of them aren't exactly ancient disorders like diabetes or asthma.[/quote]

The reason dyslexia and dysgraphia are not ancient disorders is that reading and writing skills weren’t requirements in ancient times. [/quote]

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