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Where is your evidence of this overstated claim? "The very worst problem...overwhelmingly used to 'treat' normal behavior"...I studied ADHD pharmacology in grad
by WhompingWindows 6y ago
Where is your evidence of this overstated claim? "The very worst problem...overwhelmingly used to 'treat' normal behavior"...I studied ADHD pharmacology in graduate school and I saw no evidence of this in the dozens of articles I read. I think you lack a scientific understanding of ADHD.
Do you know WHY boys are more likely to be diagnosed as "combined type" ADHD and treated than girls? It is primarily because their motor-dominant brains develop differentially: the dopaminergic systems in their motor cortex make them move more and disrupt more than girls.
Girls, whose motor-cortex and executive function develop differently, are much more likely to be the primarily-inattentive subtype, which leads to day dreaming and aloofness, but not to the disruptive behaviors that boys with ADHD exhibit. Therefore, girls fly under the radar and are missed because boys simply move more and have less control over their movement.
Nevertheless, your post is a bit reckless in my opinion. Add some real scientific evidence to your generalization. These are children who have less friends, abuse drugs more, are more likely to have depression or anxiety, and are far more likely to kill themselves. This neurodevelopmental disorder really matters, it's not a flippant case of drugging boys whose parents didn't raise them right.
- eric4smith 6y agoI suppose the question is what is “raising them right” mean to you? As a boy I was raised to be inquisitive, open, masculine, physical and explorative. I was also raised to be gentle and tolerant of those around me. Those are not traits that are welcome in most schools for maybe the past 20 years. So more and more boys are indeed given medications to “calm down” what are really natural traits of masculinity.