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Does ADD Really Exist? |
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Does ADD Really Exist?
There is a lot of controversy regarding whether ADD even exists. There is no
brain scan, no lab tests and no physical evidence documenting it exists anymore
than there is documentation that Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy exist. And no,
Daniel Amen’s “Brain SPEC Imaging” has never been proven with any double-blind
placebo tests published in any medical journal. But we still talk about ADD and
Santa as if they are real. I decided to settle this once as for all and looked
it up in the dictionary. I don’t know why no one has thought of this before.
Attention is the issue, and deficit is the so-called problem. Here is the
dictionary definition of Deficit:
def·i·cit (de-fi-sit)
1. Inadequacy or insufficiency
2. A deficiency or impairment in mental functioning
3. An unfavorable condition or position
4. An amount by which something is less than required
5. Less than the standard or normal
Now apply that to your child. Add those traits to attention and do you have an
accurate or true definition of your child? Is your child’s attention span:
1. Inadequate or insufficient attention span?
2. An unfavorable attention span?
3. A less than requited attention span?
4. Less than a standard or normal attention span?
It doesn’t fit does it? Here’s the fallacy, there is no standard or normal
attention span. Think about it, where is the measuring stick for an attention
span? What is normal and how did you measure it?
Let’s put it in perspective. To have a deficit you have to have a less than
normal or standard starting point. When you opened a checking account you
started at zero, right? Then you put $100 into the account, right? Then you
wrote a check for $150, right! Right? Good, I thought I was the only one for a
second there. Now you have a deficit of $50, which is less than the starting
point of zero.
If you have an attention scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being a low attention span and
10 being a long attention span then 5 would be a regular, sufficient or normal
starting point. Then a 2 would be a deficient attention span or ADD. To justify
2 being deficient you have to justify 5 being normal, standard or required
attention span. So what is the normal, standard or required attention span and
how did you measure it?
If you don’t have a 5, you can’t have a 2. If you don’t have a 2, then according
to the dictionary you don’t have Santa Claus or Attention Deficit. You have a
fairy tale. To take it one step farther, what would you call a 10? Attention
surplus? Would you need a pill for that as well?
Remember when teachers taught you to write with your right hand and not your
wrong hand? Why did they teach that? Who made the right hand the correct hand
and the left hand the wrong hand? The majority did. The simply minded thinking
was that if most of the people in America are right handed, then the minority or
left handed people must be wrong, are broken and need fixing. With hindsight
being 20/20, that’s pretty stupid, huh?
So there is no such thing as ADD, but there is such a thing as a long or short
attention span. Why did they invent ADD? One of the reasons is the majority of
people have a long attention span and the minority have a short attention span.
We have a short attention span, it’s not broke, it doesn’t need fixing, it’s not
wrong to have one and we don’t need meds!
So 10% of us are left-handed and have short attention spans. Does this work?
Yes! Pull out your yellow pages and notice 90% of the jobs in the world are
left-brained, repetitive, mundane jobs. That’s where the 90% go. The other 10%
are the creative jobs. Everything works perfectly; you don’t need meds for the
minorities.
Next time someone tells you they have ADD, ask them to bring any proof that
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy or ADD exists. A fairy tale is
something someone tells another. Someone told you that ADD and Santa Claus are
real, but where’s their proof? As you grew up you realized that Santa Claus, the
Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny were a fairy tale because you never saw them or
could prove they ever existed. You should use the same logic for ADD and you
should use common sense before you medicate.
I’ll tell you a secret. There is no lab test for ADD/ADHD. But there are lab
tests for every single one of the symptoms [they tell you is ADD] which expose
their probable causes. Did you get that? There are scientific lab tests that
will indicate where the symptoms came from, i.e. what caused them, but there is
no lab test for ADD itself. Why not test for the causes and where they came
from? Then treat the causes, not the symptoms. Click here to find out how.
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