At 1:46 AM -0700 10/2/98, Blanc wrote:
Regarding ADD and difficulties with attention spans:
This could explain ADD/ADHD to some extent, and it probably would yield important insights for someone to examine their own true motivations when they have problems concentrating or paying attention.
And there certainly seems to be a significant number of cpunks who claim to have this 'syndrome'.
Any trendy new diagnosis always gets some recruits...dyslexia, ADD (*), the abuse excuse, etc. (* Like any trendy thing, it gets renamed to keep its panache. ADD has been renamed to something with four letters, which I now forget (must be ADD).) We've had some nutballs and losers (luser spelling: loosers) on this list. People who claim the reason they can't make a coherent argument or hold a steady job is because of something some psychobabbler told them was their excuse. So what else is nu beside e over h? --Tim May Y2K: A good chance to reformat America's hard drive and empty the trash. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.