Reply To: Debunking misconceptions

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Look at the last line of the article—
“Let us return to the basic matter of personal psychology and education: The child is to acquire personal responsibility and emphatic behavior under expert guidance – and that takes the family and the school: In these fields, the child should be able to lead off mentally. This constitutes the core of the human person.” (emphasis mine; and boy, they need a better translator——this has the hallmarks of having originally been written in a foreign language.)

There we have it. ADHD is an assault on “personal responsibility… the core of the human being.” And of course that simply will not do. Because it is an assault on deeply held beliefs/theology——the doctrine of free choice——it must be a fraud, a conspiracy among money-grubbing doctors and researchers. This problem isn’t going away. And come to think of it, I can’t think of any “disorder” that stands to be more disorienting to so many people. We assert that a neurological phenomenon impairs our ability to act consistently in “responsible” ways. We have to understand how outrageous that sounds to many people. And we should expect that people will try to impeach that assertion for years to come. It doesn’t help that so many kids apparently go prescription shopping by claiming to have ADHD when, in fact, they really don’t.

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