A shoutout for The Republic of T (currently one of Technorati’s top ADHD authorities, BTW)

This excellent post echoes the same message I’ve been trumpeting:
An ADHD History Lesson at The Republic of T.

Come the revolution, children with ADD/ADHD will simply be untreated, sugar-deprived, and regularly beaten. Maybe that will change after a long time, when people realize it doesn’t work. But then again, maybe it won’t.

And this:

I probably shouldn’t fight this battle. (The hubby suggested I’m jousting at windmills by arguing or reasoning with people concerning their deeply-held, wholly-unfounded beliefs.) After all, we live in an age where “gut feelings” and and things that people “just know” trumps anything that can be shown by scientific studies or backed up with evidence. We don’t need evidence to start wars, so we certainly don’t need it to deal with issues of mental health. And if doesn’t matter that Saddam Hussein didn’t mastermind the 9/11 attacks. If you say it often enough, people will not just believe it, they will know it and they will act accordingly.

Keep fighting, keep fighting. I’ll do battle right alongside you on this one. There is such a myth surrounding the ADHD controversy despite strong, compelling science that if people (parents) don’t learn, read, talk, and fight our kids will suffer.

Great blog, thanks for making the effort!

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