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As cynicalkane said, you say this because you haven't met people who are very serious affected by these illnesses. These people will greatly disagree with you:
by strlen 14y ago
As cynicalkane said, you say this because you haven't met people who are very serious affected by these illnesses. These people will greatly disagree with you: yes, they are interesting and clever, but they do _suffer_ from their afflictions. Saying that these conditions do not exist discourages those individuals from seeking diagnosis and accommodations for their conditions.
For example, an individual with ADD [1] might be very intelligent but will be unable to focus on timed tests and will suffer from worse academic performance. If they're unaware of their ADD diagnosis they and others around them will think they are lazy and/or stupid; this becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Being diagnosed with ADD doesn't just mean a prescription for medicine, it can instead mean being allowed to take more time on a test or to take the test in a closed office. This can mean they have a chance to be admitted to a university and be exposed to intellectually stimulating material (whether it's computer science, physics, economics, or philosophy).
- excuse-me 14y ago>it can instead mean being allowed to take more time on a test And is also widely abused for the same reason. In 2010 OFSTED (the UK govt school inspection agency) found that nearly 1/2 of the 1.6M pupils that were assessed by schools as ADD/Dyslexic/special-needs showed no sign at all of any condition. But did allow the school to either ignore their poor exam results in performance tables or claim extra funds for teaching them. Similarly there is a statistically odd large increase in the number of children suddenly diagnosed as dyslexic/ADD in their final year at UK `public schools` (= private fee paying) - just before they take final exams - allowing them extra time, the assistance of a teacher or to use a laptop to write essay answers.