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78% of Children with ADD No Longer Have It as Adults

by salmonet on 8/3/16, 2:47 PM with 5 comments

• by safanycom on 8/14/16, 8:22 AM

  Small sample size. No male female comparisons. No diagnostic criteria. Headline very different to the study title.

  Low quality.

• by dpc_pw on 8/3/16, 6:15 PM

  So, is ADD/ADHD actually a real thing, or is it just part of a trend to make everything out of social norm "a condition".

  I mean naively speaking, we didn't evolve to sit in classrooms and read books, grow up and sit in the offices. So I would expect on spectrum of human temperaments, there must be a significant portion of people who are not cut for concentrating and calm-behavior.

  Generally being skeptical about a lot of modern social "sciences" (potentially made for grants or big business, not reproducible, based on correlations), but aware of my ignorance here, I wonder if there is anything that would convince me that medicating my (hypotetical) hyper-active kid is justified, instead of pushing for environment in which the kid can just scream and run more.

• by taternuts on 8/3/16, 7:56 PM

  Unfortunately I feel like my ADHD has gotten worse since I've grown, or maybe I'm just more aware of it now. I still really struggle to sleep in my 30's, I didn't know there was a correlation between that and ADHD