On Dec 17, 2023 at 9:09:44 PM, Bharat Shetty via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote:
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder > This interesting book explains the nuances that ADD is not an > inherited illness, but a reversible impairment and developmental > delay. This talks about how in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is > emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in > infancy – and why- shows how ‘distractibility’ is the psychological > product of life experience. > I don’t want to be nasty so I’ll just note that this viewpoint is, um… controversial. Speaking as a parent of a high-school girl whose ADHD (formally diagnosed) is seriously fucking up her life, and attempts to address the problems by compassionate well-qualified professionals with a combination of therapy and medication have notably failed to improve the situation. As a consequence of this, she and I and her mother have dug pretty deep into the ADD literature and community. I would suggest caution in asserting this position around members of the ADD community. A lot of them would be considerably less polite than I am.
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