A Usenet persona calling itself frtzw906 wrote:

Doctor Scott:
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Children with "ADHD" aren't "disabled," they are "under-disciplined" and
"unmotivated" to act appropriately. I frankly doubt such a thing as ADHD
even exists, except in the devious minds of drug-makers and their research
lackeys.

You ought to watch "Supernanny" sometime ...
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So you got your medical credentials from TV, did you?

Nope, thousands of years of human history.


Look, on many of the "types" you describe, our solutions may be quite
similar. However, I happen to know some very well-mannered kids who have
AD disorder. They just can't comprehend the way others can. They have a
disability.

Hogwash.


So, Dr Scott, how about other people who look "normal" but suffer from
mental illnesses; will a SMACK cure them as well?

Depends on the illness. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Even advocates for
mentally disabled children (such as those with CP) tell parents not to
coddle their children or tolerate misbehavior.


After all your advocating for the disabled, you've just completely lost
credibility. You're obviously just a sucker for the "look" of a person
with disabilities.

It's not their appearance, it's their behavior. I'm not saying that parents
or teachers should cane disabled children (or any children), I'm merely
saying that the current vogue of declaring unruly children to be suffering
from "ADHD" is entirely generated by bad-behavior, permissive-parenting
apologists and drug companies, and that this "disorder," if it exists at
all, which I doubt, only truly exists in an extremely small fraction of
children.

Thus, the current practice of medicating vast numbers of exuberant,
undisciplined children by schools is based in two things: The crippling fear
of educators to use corporal punishment to maintain order in the schools and
a desire to avoid the issue and the problem of disciplining children that
haven't been disciplined at home by applying the convenient "ADHD"
diagnosis. That way the school can wash its hands of the "problem child,"
demand that the child be medicated into a stupor, and blame their inability
to control students on a fictional "condition" the child supposedly suffers
from.

It's a giant racket, and a fraud, and it ought to be stopped.


How shallow.

You'd like to think so, but it ain't so.
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