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<blockquote data-quote="Shari" data-source="post: 262014" data-attributes="member: 1848"><p>As the allergist who sees wee difficult child said, "If that's classic ADHD, there's 3 million kids out there walking around on Ritalin who are diagnosed with the wrong thing..."</p><p>***</p><p>Labels come too fast, in a profession where answers are rarely clear. I think of all the people, me included, who feel wee difficult child is on the spectrum, and the MD's who don't. I look at all the kids I know who are much like wee difficult child and his behaviors, who are on the spectrum. Is wee difficult child mis-diagnosed? Or are those other kids? Mu gut feeling is that the spectrum explains difficult child better, but even then, there are exceptions. I don't know if difficult child fits any lable that exists now.</p><p>***</p><p></p><p> </p><p>I think that's exactly it, Star. At least the epic proportions part of it, anyway. There will always be the classic autists, the classic BiPolar (BP)'s, and maybe even classic ADHD's. But how long, really, have society's diets contained all the genetically modified ingredients, all the preservatives, the chemical agents that enhance flavors, shelf life, etc? If you look at it, really, we are absolutely bombarding ourselves with chemicals that we really don't know what the long term effects of will be. Oh yeah, they've been tested and deemed safe, blah blah blah, but we've been down that path before...asbestos and Deet were safe once, too. And our airwaves? When, ever, in the history of the earth, have our airwaves been so full of traffic? We have radio signals and cell phone signals, and sattelite signals, and... Again...is that truly harmless?</p><p>***</p><p>I think some day we will find the links. We will find differences in our bodies - what may be toxic to one is not to another. </p><p>***</p><p>And don't get me wrong, I am not a health-food junky. I like my caffeine and jelly beans, and lately, potato chips... I just think there is a price we pay for every thing we eat and do, whether we truly ever know it or not.</p><p>***</p><p>ANd the mis-diagnosing/over-diagnosing...I agree, it hurts everyone. It hurts the child mis-diagnosed, and it hurts the child who truly has the disorder. The teacher in the classroom with 8 kids diagnosis'ed ADHD thinks she's an ADHD expert because she manages those 8 kids without so much as a bobble. Then along comes kid number 9, who truly has ADHD, and throws everyone into a tailspin because this teacher who manages ADHD kids so well suddenly can't manage. Instead of questioning the 8 easy ADHD's, they ostracize the 9th...the one who truly has it...the one who needs the most help, but they don't know what his problem might be, so they pass him on to someone else...Yup. Burns my hiney.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shari, post: 262014, member: 1848"] As the allergist who sees wee difficult child said, "If that's classic ADHD, there's 3 million kids out there walking around on Ritalin who are diagnosed with the wrong thing..." *** Labels come too fast, in a profession where answers are rarely clear. I think of all the people, me included, who feel wee difficult child is on the spectrum, and the MD's who don't. I look at all the kids I know who are much like wee difficult child and his behaviors, who are on the spectrum. Is wee difficult child mis-diagnosed? Or are those other kids? Mu gut feeling is that the spectrum explains difficult child better, but even then, there are exceptions. I don't know if difficult child fits any lable that exists now. *** I think that's exactly it, Star. At least the epic proportions part of it, anyway. There will always be the classic autists, the classic BiPolar (BP)'s, and maybe even classic ADHD's. But how long, really, have society's diets contained all the genetically modified ingredients, all the preservatives, the chemical agents that enhance flavors, shelf life, etc? If you look at it, really, we are absolutely bombarding ourselves with chemicals that we really don't know what the long term effects of will be. Oh yeah, they've been tested and deemed safe, blah blah blah, but we've been down that path before...asbestos and Deet were safe once, too. And our airwaves? When, ever, in the history of the earth, have our airwaves been so full of traffic? We have radio signals and cell phone signals, and sattelite signals, and... Again...is that truly harmless? *** I think some day we will find the links. We will find differences in our bodies - what may be toxic to one is not to another. *** And don't get me wrong, I am not a health-food junky. I like my caffeine and jelly beans, and lately, potato chips... I just think there is a price we pay for every thing we eat and do, whether we truly ever know it or not. *** ANd the mis-diagnosing/over-diagnosing...I agree, it hurts everyone. It hurts the child mis-diagnosed, and it hurts the child who truly has the disorder. The teacher in the classroom with 8 kids diagnosis'ed ADHD thinks she's an ADHD expert because she manages those 8 kids without so much as a bobble. Then along comes kid number 9, who truly has ADHD, and throws everyone into a tailspin because this teacher who manages ADHD kids so well suddenly can't manage. Instead of questioning the 8 easy ADHD's, they ostracize the 9th...the one who truly has it...the one who needs the most help, but they don't know what his problem might be, so they pass him on to someone else...Yup. Burns my hiney. [/QUOTE]
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