On Jul 11, 11:15pm, snow wrote:
man is just ridiculous, & betrays the author's lack of knowledge.
No, the POINT IS MIS-DIAGNOSIS. Children who are either brighter than their classmates and figured out the assignement with in minutes
These are not the people who are being talked about here
of the teacher giving it, or children with _no_ boundries implemented by their parents (people are like fractals, very subject to initial conditions) hence they keep pushing and pushing so the parents respond by instituting chemical control.
Well, like I said earlier, in the old days very hyperactive boys probably did have the tar whipped out of them. This does work, for short periods. In the long run, it's ineffective. Totally ineffective for a medical condition. Do you think, for example, that it is effective to tell a person suffering from depression to "cheer up", or someone suffering from some forms of schizophrenia to "ignore the voices & stop acting silly"? No amount of your cajoling is going to get a person with a heart deficiency up El Capitan, & there's no chance you can guilt trip someone with severe emphysema to run a marathon with you. I'm sure there's plenty of misdiagnoses, but unless you're willing to lay your md or your epidemiological credentials on the table, I'm not giving you any credit. Your argument sounds like some kind of reactionary victorian moralizing to me (parents setting boundaries .... sheesh).