- AttilaTheNvn
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Debates are like jaw breakers; you eat away at one layer, only to find another lying beneath. Also, they cause people to choke up and die sometimes. True story.
I truly don't think it is.
Growing up, I was diagnosed with, among other things, ADD, and Tourette's Syndrome.
Tourette's was a genuine disorder, and it has taken me most of my life up to this point to be able to control my motor ticks- teaching myself how to channel my twiches through more useful things, like music, or even videogames, going through light therapy, trying medications, etc. Im 21, and I STILL find myself losing control of my ticks in public, and it can be pretty humiliating.
My "ADD," on the other hand feels like a joke of a diagnoses. I was probably one of the more focused kids in my group of friends growing up, and I always got good grades. I graduated HS with a 4.0, with mostly honors courses, and Im at the top of my class in pretty much every college course I've taken, despite my apparent "lack of an attention span."
So, no, I think the ADD/ADHD is, at least at this point in time, extremely over-diagnosed, and in no way a legitimate issue in MOST cases. Not all, of course, but many, if not most.
/opinion