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Lets talk about diagnoses and the technical details

SumBuny sumbunyTHIS_DOES_NOT_BELONG_HERE at cox.net
Tue Dec 9 17:22:16 EST 2003


"mat" <mats_trash at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:43525ce3.0312091221.304d6fc1 at posting.google.com...
> "Michael S." <m.sabino at comcast.net> wrote in message
news:<NKbBb.469203$HS4.3663427 at attbi_s01>...
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I was 5 years old, I was diagnosed with ADD (without
hyperactivity).
> > This is ususual since I'm a male, and most of those who exhibit symptoms
of
> > ADD without hyperactivity are female.

Interesting...I am female, and ADHHHHHD....



> > There are a few reasons why I think this may be the case. But I think
there
> > is an early-childhood origin in rearing that led to these symptoms in
me.
> > Mostly, I was educated from my parents in areas that differed from the
> > material tought in school. As an example... when I was 5 in preschool,
my
> > dad would teach me about electric circuitry at home, while at school the
> > teachers would watch in amazement as I'd drift offtopic while they were
> > teaching something as commonplace knowledge in that agegroup as the
letters
> > of the alphabet.
> > I also notice that this parallel exists when females are tought less
> > education-orientated topics than males from their family, so I wonder if
> > that's the reason why females more often develop the add without
> > hyperactivity than males. Does encouraging distraction by barbie dolls
allow
> > the brain to be deficient in long-term thought processes (such as those
that
> > occur in the prefrontal cortex)?


"Encouraging distraction by Barbie dolls"?  I had Barbie dolls, was not only
undistracted by them, I didn't care to play with them...my folks didn't
actively teach me, but I grew up going to museums and reading--this was as a
pre-schooler.

Buny





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