I am writing this post as a warning to everyone to be careful to whom you listen regarding ADHD. There is so much misinformation out there. For example, yesterday on Twitter, there was a link to a seemingly legitimate article about ADHD stating that it was a disease!
ADHD is NOT a disease! Children have ADHD just like they have a certain hair color or eye color. When people call children with ADHD, "ADHD children" it implies a very negative connotation, which also indicates that the child's symptoms cannot be modified or changed. So...please be careful to whom you listen!!!! If you need to know who is legitimate, please ask me and I will look into it.
This is bold and timely comment. ADHD is a behavioral description not unlike its opposite pseudo-diagnosis, "laziness." Such labels can be prescribed without any supporting evidence - other than descriptive terminology. The more effective responses to such behavior issues incluce guidance to the child on how to behave more effectively. Parental guidance and patience is shown regularly to be as effective (or more so) than frontal lobe medication.
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