March Topic:
Strategies for Paying Attention Consistently (and other seemingly impossible things)
We’ll be highlighting some suggestions from Dr. Ed Hallowell.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Fascinating New Study on Juvenile ADD
<< WARNING: SATIRE ALERT >>
The following "report" is from The Onion magazine (www.theonion.com), which is a 100% satirical, fake news organization in the same vein as Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. As such it should be taken in the spirit intended, which is as a funny joke. In my experience, those of us with ADHD (or with spouses or kids with ADHD) generally have developed the ability to laugh at ourselves, so I’m sharing it:
NEWS IN BRIEF
Report: Majority Of ADD Cases Go Undiagnosed Until Child's First Public Failure
WASHINGTON—A new report by the Mayo Clinic revealed that most cases of Attention Deficit Disorder are not diagnosed until one or both parents are publicly humiliated by their child's behavior. "More often than not it takes something like a kid goofing off during a choir recital to act as a wake-up call for parents," said Dr. Emily Chao, who realized her own son had ADD when he forgot his lines and knocked over a piece of scenery during a school play. "While many children's symptoms may not be apparent at first, they become markedly more acute when viewed in a public forum such as a spelling bee." Doctors have also recently discovered a new syndrome that compels unemployed 30-year-olds to move back home even though their parents did a perfectly fine job raising them.
Was it funny, or should I be more selective in the material I post here?
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