Posted by dj on January 8, 2000, at 23:11:33
In reply to Re: me too, Noa, posted by CarolAnn on January 8, 2000, at 15:34:16
Just scanned your various comments and I'm curious why you all chose to put the label ADD or ADHD on this transitional problems Perhaps it's a problem of introversion vs extroversion or whatever the heck you might want to label it. I id
with much of what was stated above but I am not ADD, though Janice previously kept trying to float that theory by me...Frankly I think North Americans are too fast to label ourselves with too many maladaptive or hyper-bolic descriptors.The question was asked what do kids have in common with self-described ADDers (and I would add those who don't use that or necessarily any labels). They are human and don't like to be distracted from something they are focused on, so why pathologize that?
> How about that? I was a daycare teacher for awhile too. I was also a live in Nanny for four years and the kids went thru exactly the same meltdown transition problems. My question, what do ADD'ers have in common with small children? I'm sure there's an answer somewhere in somebody's research.CarolAnn
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