ADD: If It Is A Disease, Why I Don't Want A Cure.

I am so glad I was in grade school before the powers that be discovered the disease known as ADD/ADHD.  Of course, there is no such disease, this made-up disease is merely a means of suppressing individuals who cannot sit still in school through soul-killing monotony.  I'll say it again, if teachers cannot keep up with lively students, drug the teachers with speed, not the students with ritalin.

Everyone says ritalin is overprescribed, but never in their instance.  Parents are conditioned to reflexively accept what doctors tell them, and to become a doctor today, you have to get with the program.

At wikipedia, one would expect far more on the controversy of ADD/ADHD, but even there, the powers that be allow only trace reference.  But let's look at what the site calls a problem, with my comments after each bullet.

Predominantly inattentive type symptoms may include:^[34]

• Be easily distracted, miss details, forget things, and frequently switch from one activity to another
• We are renaissance people...
• Have difficulty focusing on one thing
• We are renaissance people, we get it faster than you can teach it...
• Become bored with a task after only a few minutes, unless doing something enjoyable
• This is an illness...?!
• Have difficulty focusing attention on organizing and completing a task or learning something new
• Only when it is banal or unimportant, in spite of what you say...
• Have trouble completing or turning in homework assignments, often losing things (e.g., pencils, toys, assignments) needed to complete tasks or activities
• We share...
• Not seem to listen when spoken to
• When the speaker is boring: how is you being boring constitute me being ill...?
• Daydream, become easily confused, and move slowly
• Right... we work on serious things, which we are obliged to do in the mind, since you could care less about our creativity...
• Have difficulty processing information as quickly and accurately as others
• As defined by you, not by us...  we are not your little brown-nosers...
• Struggle to follow instructions.
• Only because your are tedious...

Predominantly hyperactive-impulsive type symptoms may include:^[34]

• Fidget and squirm in their seats
• So let us wander around the room, or school... or neighborhood...
• Talk nonstop
• Generally what we have to say is more interesting than what you have to say, and we are a sharing tribe...
• Dash around, touching or playing with anything and everything in sight
• Well, how come you have it out, are are an inquisitive tribe...
• Have trouble sitting still during dinner, school, and story time
• We "make hay while the sun shines..." can't sit around wasting time...
• Be constantly in motion
• You envy our energy...
• Have difficulty doing quiet tasks or activities.
• We save that for sleep time...

and also these manifestations primarily of impulsivity:^[34]

• Be very impatient
• You are tedious to us.
• Blurt out inappropriate comments, show their emotions without restraint, and act without regard for consequences
• You mean no matter how much you try to oppress us, we keep on happily?  We are genuine, frank? This is a disease...?
• Have difficulty waiting for things they want or waiting their turns in games
• Right, we prefer martial arts, tennis, skiing... games where you don't have to wait for the non-ADD/ADHD people to get it together... so this is a disease...?

  No way would I ever give up my inquisitiveness, my energy, my fascination with the world around me so that I can "focus" and be a good little automaton.  If you cannot keep up with us, then may I recommend angel dust, speed or cocaine? What?  That is offensive?  But drugging irrepressible youths is   not offensive?

Set my people free!

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