ADHD – the Truth Goes Down the Memory Hole
This is in my view one of the great scandals of our age. We have turned away in horror from the chastisement of naughty children, to such an extent that in some European countries it is a crime to smack a child. Yet we drug children, often at very young ages and in increasing numbers, with amphetamines whose use is in general sternly banned by law. If smacking a defenceless child is wrong, then surely drugging a defenceless child is just as wrong. And yet conventional wisdom, which decides these things, regards the smack as an outrage, and the drug as normal and right. It is in these anomalies that we find out what is really wrong with our world.
“ It is in these anomalies that we find out what is really wrong with our world.”
Indeed.
I believe that in most cases what is being diagnosed as ADHD is actually DDD: Discipline Deficit Disorder.
Proper discipline administered at the appropriate time during childhood is a proven “vaccine” that produced civilized societies with very few adults that behave like spoiled brats.
BeSnick
When you don’t know what the hell you are talking about…………
I suggest you are the one who’s out to lunch!
I second your observation my good Sir!!!
Yes, he’s lunching at government expense on some pseudo-disability scam and this kind of scrutiny threatens him.
… I would be like NME666, but I wouldn’t post.
I never believed in this ADD/ADHD crap, not for a minute. When they first claimed that the symptoms were “fidgeting, being unable to concentrate in class, short attention span, being easily distracted” etc, I thought “Okay, so just being a normal boy, then?”. When I found out that the ‘scientific proof’ required to diagnose this was doing some tests and asking some questions, and if no other cause could be found then you were deemed *by default* to have ADD. My school had much different methods of handling such classroom behaviors: detentions or the strap.
(which, oddly enough, never seemed to be applied to the girls. Hmmm…)
Later, I would come across people who supposedly had a ‘hyperactive’ boy who required Ritalin, and some of whom were bemoaning the fact that their son was now in a dull-eyed, quiet state all the time and completely lacking his previous joy and zest for life (yes, that’s because you are DRUGGING a normal 10-year-old boy…what else did you expect to happen?). I also read things written by teachers who were alarmed by the fact that one third (or more) of their students were taking Ritalin.
Looking at the public behavior and maturity levels I observe today from this last couple of generations, this was an experiment that failed miserably.
Way back when, my buddies and I horsed around in class a lot, even teased the girls often. Our teachers just took it in stride.
Sometimes the punishment was expulsion from class for a while or detention afterward, sometimes it was “go see the vice-principal” and he’ll deal with you.
“Way back when, my buddies and I horsed around in class a lot, even teased the girls often.”
The phrase “boys will be boys” comes to mind.
about elementary school straps, the curious thing *I* noticed, NONE of the prettyboys or darlingprincesses EVER hit with a single blow. the brute aberhart took especial satisfaction beating up homely/poor/shy kids.
friday afternoon assembly, praise Jebus Gawd save the Quaaaain, Monday morning back to beating up kids.
heyo georgie, the Good Book you purport to follow it says ‘suffer the children to come to Me’ it DOESNT say ‘make the children suffer’
l know what cemetery he’s in, what if someone counted and smacked his grave marker to match the # blows those kids took?
Medicating is so much easier than parenting.
“Medicating is so much easier than parenting.”
Exactly so. Wasn’t long after the teachers started pushing this BS that they also stopped any attempts at discipline of any kind. Misbehave in class now and they either send to to a room to relax and play video games or if it is more serious they just send you home (which is punishment for the parents, not the child).
If you’ve never actually suffered from actual ADD or ADHD then STOP the fake news! Your ‘opinion’ doesn’t do anything except further muddy the already muddy waters. While proven to be frequently and dangerously misdiagnosed, ADD and ADHD is very, very real and when not correctly diagnosed or managed it will cause lifelong hardships.
“If you’ve never actually suffered from actual ADD or ADHD then STOP the fake news! ”
ADHD *is* the fake news.
” ADD and ADHD is very, very real and when not correctly diagnosed or managed it will cause lifelong hardships.”
…says Big Pharma, as they rake in the millions…
Kimi IS correct. It is a thing.
I have known a couple of individuals in my lifetime that legitimately had this condition and needed some sort of medical intervention.
But it is NOT NEARLY as common as Big Pharma/Big Teacher would have you believe. THAT is the travesty.
If you have never been possessed by the demon Baphomet then STOP! He’s real! He told me so himself last time he dropped in!
oh HA HA HA HA HA.
great, what is it, taboo bullying nowadays. policies and policies and policies and policies.
so why the KCUF am l STILL on the receiving end, same as elementary skewl?
“…so why the KCUF am l STILL on the receiving end, same as elementary skewl?”
Because shut up and do as you’re told, obviously. The Great and the Good have decided what your place shall be, and you will fit in it or be made to fit. The nail which sticks up will be hammered down.
Drugs work better at shutting boys up, and they’re easier. Nobody cares if the boy makes it to adulthood, he’s supposed to own nothing and be happy, remember?
drugs.
lol just thought up a good 1 liner.
lm at the age cant tell the difference between a senior moment and
really good weed.
I had a psychology prof back in the day, who claimed that he was offered lots of money by a pharmaceutical company if he would do research directed towards supporting the idea that a child can have a “chronic Ritalin deficiency”. He realised what sick bastards they were and moved on to other topics.
Here in the post-George Floyd California … we have something even WORSE than the ADHD nonsense … we have the The State Discipline Law that essentially FORBIDS ANY classroom discipline of black and Latino kids.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-01/trump-order-on-school-discipline-may-put-california-in-legal-crosshairs
Yes, the LAW mandates that black and Latino shitheads can run riot in the classrooms. Hint: d’ya wanna create another wave of white flight? Pass an anti shithead of color discipline LAW. See ya! Now … black and Latino schools are mostly 90% black and Latino.
“Hint: d’ya wanna create another wave of white flight?”
Oh, you mean like how there’s no water in the fire hydrants? Normies see government guys destroying their infrastructure right in front of them, like literally -right there!- and they do not twitch a grey cell.
Must be nice, eh? Just float through life, not a care in the world…