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Monday, May 05, 2003 
Google search of the day 
"attention deficit" child children: 246,000 hits. (Adding other keywords like "teen, teenager, kids," and the like, gets more.)

"attention deficit" adult adults: 76,300 hits.

The Yahoo! Health entry for ADD doesn't even have the words "adult" or "adults" on it.

I know it's a problem for children (and sometimes an overdiagnosed one), but it's not like you outgrow it the minute you hit voting age. And in kids, I think the disaster scenario is "s/he will fail in school and never get into college and never get a good job," which admittedly would be a bad thing; but in adults, the disaster scenario is that you can't keep a job if you manage to get one. Who cares what your third-grade math test scores were if you get fired for never getting any work done?

Sigh...

[ at 10:12 AM • by Abby • permalink  ]




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