Re: Self Diagnosis Talk: Raise your had if you\'ve got ADD or Dyslexia
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I've got an (adopted) cousin who has been diagnosed with ADHD. It's unlike anything I've ever seen. Flying around the yard, talking a mile a minute, bizzare changes in topic of conversation without reason. Spend 5 minutes around him and it becomes clear that most folks you've met who self identify as having ADD have nothing close.
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This opinion seems to dismiss the possibility that there may be varying degrees of ADD.
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My supposition is that this is because most folks don't understand the full extent of these disorders. When they find some aspect of them in themselves, the find it makes a nice crutch that they can use to defend/reconcile some of their less than awesome attributes.
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While such self-diagnosis can become a convenient crutch, it can also be a convenient crutch for others to dismiss the notion that some people's brains work a bit differently and can't simply be labeled lazy or whatever.
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