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A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-wasn't-one-of-them dept.

Jamie was one of several people who submitted links to a story proclaiming that as many as a million kids were misdiagnosed with ADHD simply for being the youngest and therefore least mature in their classes. Worse still, I wonder how many of those kids are permanently put on drugs.

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  1. Re:No, that's not allowed anymore. by bluefoxlucid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The "teachers" (and I will put quotes around the name because they were nothing more than armchair social workers) were hell-bent on getting him on ADHD.

    Children are being unfairly "accused" of ADHD simply because they don't fit some happy shiny ideal that no child should ever be if they are truly healthy.

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