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Interesting post about Dr Barkley, Caper. But I disagree. Saying there is nothing positive about having ADHD doesn’t suggest or imply that medication is the only answer. Doesn’t it just suggest that he has seen the devastating effects of the condition and doesn’t want a debate about it being a ‘gift’ to detract from the very real need for more research, more acceptance and more treatment options?
Either it’s a gift or it’s a disability. I think there’s a difference between accepting it, and accepting yourself with it, and thinking it’s been a positive influence on someone’s life. If it’s a positive influence on people then do we need to treat it, get help for it or have counselling to cope with the fall out.
I don’t even think ‘giftedness’ is a gift. I think there is the positive side of it, which is high learning potential, but there are all the other behaviours and problems associated with it that look like ADHD, asperger’s, OCD, ODD and so on that make it obvious to me that even being ‘gifted’ comes with a price.
So I think it’s really important to accept ADHD as a disability, because without that acceptance I feel that we’ll just keep being told to try harder.
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