Posted by anna on January 11, 2000, at 17:25:57
In reply to Does it all ADD up?, posted by dj on January 8, 2000, at 23:11:33
> Just scanned your various comments and I'm curious why you all chose to put the label ADD or ADHD on this transitional problems Perhaps it's a problem of introversion vs extroversion or whatever the heck you might want to label it. I id
> with much of what was stated above but I am not ADD, though Janice previously kept trying to float that theory by me...Frankly I think North Americans are too fast to label ourselves with too many maladaptive or hyper-bolic descriptors.
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> The question was asked what do kids have in common with self-described ADDers (and I would add those who don't use that or necessarily any labels). They are human and don't like to be distracted from something they are focused on, so why pathologize that?
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> > How about that? I was a daycare teacher for awhile too. I was also a live in Nanny for four years and the kids went thru exactly the same meltdown transition problems. My question, what do ADD'ers have in common with small children? I'm sure there's an answer somewhere in somebody's research.CarolAnnDJ
I agree that ADD is way over diagnosed, and used by many undiagnosed people to explain away things they do/don't do. My psychologist feels the same -way, that 's why it was several months before she confirmed her initial impressions of me, why i was tested for ADD, and why a couple of good pals also did took a test about me. Also, I had a long talk with a psychi. about it before she put me on adderal Self-described adder's need to check it out...it's like people who are a bit down one day that go on about their "major depression". I am reminded of my doc's comment one day about an earlier patient she had seen earlier. It seemed this woman attributed everything to her "add" --as in--"I misplaced my keys, must have been my ADD" or "I forgot to buy milk at the store, must have been my add" Of course, she did not have add!
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