In a message dated 3/10/00 10:32:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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> ADHD is one of the most common childhood disorders. It is diagnosed in 3
>  to 5 percent of children, eight times more often in boys than girls.
>  ADHD has been medically described since 1902. Before the 1940s children
>  who had difficulty learning or concentrating were considered mentally
>  retarded, emotionally disturbed or culturally disadvantaged.

    It should be noted that one cannot be "diagnosed" with ADHD pr ADD unless
the group to which one belongs has been "normed," that is to say, a standard
was established based on what conduct and characteristics would be most
beneficial to those who decided what the standard would be.  In other words,
such "illnesses" or "disorders" did not exist until some children,
incarcerated in public schools for the purposes of conditioning them to be
docile workers obedient to authority and indoctrinated into unquestioning
support of the State, failed to conform to the template needed in order to
convert an agrarian-based social attitude into an industrial-based attitude.
Their symtoms reflect a disease that can only exist with its host -- the
public school system.
Yours,
Issodhos