On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 7:51 AM Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
Thanks for this note, Tim. When all of us share books on a list like this it is useful to learn a lot about these points and observations, which we do not learn elsewhere in this manner :) Having been deaf with Cochlear implants, I have also learned to process and see how a lot of literature out there does not cover and explain properly and often could get many things wrong and exaggerate regarding deafness spectrums, what works and what doesn't work, and many other things around us. :) Some of the viewpoints around deafness and implants have often riled up me also. So fully understand your observation and I would trust that. Regards, Bharat | https://bsbarkur.github.io/about.html -- Silklist mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist
