I think you are wrong. Indeed I think ADD is often a good thing. Real ADD is almost certainly a genetic attribute. And a good one when the individual who has it is above average in intelligence. The problem with ADD is that those of us who have it make the other 90% of the population who do not uptight. We bug the hell out of them. Hunters have always frightened farmers.
BTW, I probably have ADD ...and one of the attributes that characterizes ADD is an ability to focus obsessively on occasion. Obsession defeats discipline. See http://www.thomhartmann.com/addapt.shtml http://www.thomhartmann.com/farmers.shtml http://www.thomhartmann.com/hunters.shtml Oh yeh! I do _not_ consider ADD a disorder. LOL. But ADD can be disruptive. Along these lines I note that we keep inventing more and more "disorders" and "syndromes" for which we invent drugs. This is one of the most profitable businesses on the planet and rife with abuse. Now I find that I also have RBS. I will let you guess just what that means. BobLQ On 10/22/07, Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Dexter Filmore) writes: > > > While among the lame jokes exploiting the geek clichee there were a > > handful of really good ones two words will stop me from continuing to > > watch: laugh track. > > > > They should pick up the animated Dilbert series again, those were > > hillarious. > > > > The Dilbert Animated Series, now that was a great show. My other favorite > was Futurama. > > OT: I really try not to watch Television anymore, the 2-3 programs I do > watch I buy of the internet or get the season on DVD when it comes out. > > But I do have a crackpot theory on why TV causes A.D.D., I watched allot > of Television as a child, later on I figured out that it was causing me to > develop some serious attention problems, I partially confirmed my theory by > noticing my daughter showed the same symptoms I did at her age ( a full > year with out TV, Kung-Fu classes and all the Harry Potter books I could > find got her back on track ). > > To be more clear about it, I think it's dumbdown programming, children > programing and commercials announcements that actually cause A.D.D. and > A.D.H.D. > > -- > Guillermo Antonio Amaral Bastidas (gamaral) > Free/Libre/Open-Source Software Advocate & KDE Developer > http://blog.guillermoamaral.com/ > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
