South Park Finds A Cure For ADHD
Yes, the creators of South Park seem to have invented the perfect cure for "ADHD". Just watch the video.
Oh Lazy! Don't you realize that ADHD is real?
Yea right. It is real. If you say so.
Now I do not dispute that there are some kids with problems. I have been put into classrooms with special needs students.
But what the hell is the ADD and ADHD bullshit? When I was in Jr. High there was no such thing. You either went along with the program, or you sat in indoor suspension a lot. There was no excuse for not paying attention in class, or acting up because you are "bored".
And then there is the video game factor. The same kids who "can not pay attention to anything for more than 10 minutes" can sit in one place for hours playing World Of Warcraft. They do not get bored with that! Oh no. They can pay attention to a video game for an entire weekend without sleeping, but 10 minutes in math class is too much to expect from them.
MOVIE REVIEW!
21 Grams. The lives of an ex-con who finds Jesus and turns his life around, a terminally ill mathematics professor, and a regular upper-middle class family of 4 collide as the result of a tragic accident.
This is another good movie. It is from the same movie studio as a few other films I got and rated fairly high. There is a complex story and an involved plot. The movie does not rely on big budget special effects and crap.
It is worth watching. It is raw, gritty, and somehow seems "real".
Labels: ADHD Cure, movie review
posted by The Lazy Iguana @ 02:20
17 Comments:
I loved that video; it was hilarious! Especially since I have a 4 yr old...
I also have to say that I completely agree with you on the subject of ADD/ADHD. I say that as someone who was diagnosed with it, and put on Ritalin for almost 10 years.
It's a bullshit diagnosis.
We're in agreement. Another sign that our world is turning into one full of victims.
Michael - I remember the Ritalin fad. It is pretty much speed. The kids that were on it were zombies. I do not understand how it worked, and why it was "good". The best I can figure out is that the legal speed would drive an active kid so high that they would burn out all that energy - and then they would "be calm" (crash). Do parents still give their kids that shit?!?!
Ed - I think it is more of a case where everything has to have some complicated diagnosis. And there has to be a pill to cure it. That way, some drug company can make a few bucks.
Well, I think some kids really do have a problem, but they are just "different" and are not all robots, and instead of putting them on meds, you can just deal with them a little differently. With that being said, once again I have laughed my ass off, and if you keep this up there won't be any bootylicious ass left for some lucky guy to grab onto (hardee har har). But that is OK. Because violence is a cure for most everything. rightwrongmaybe
I might watch that movie it sounds good
This is your fault, you brought this on yourself
Da Doozie - you know the video was posted for your amusement. Seeing as how you got a new job and all. I still think you need a stun gun on a stick. Kind of like a tazer, only no prongs to break the skin and leave evidence.
I think the dough boy shit himself to death.
Oh, that is HILARIOUS. So wrong but yet, it feels so right.
I do not condone child abuse. I am a fairly peaceful and non-violent kind of person.
But sometimes, OPK (other people's kids) drive me crazy. I want to go up to the parents and say "either you beat your kids till they stop doing __________ or I will beat you up".
The last job I had was a very large place open to the general public. Anywhere from 80,000 - 110,000 people would pass through the place DAILY. I saw perfectly behaved children (perfectly behaved. As in better than the adults would behave). I also saw kids that would just run wild like a pack of stray dogs while the parents would pretend that they did not notice.
Spare the fist, spoil the PARENT.
The Lazy,
I'm with you on using letters to describe children. I wish I could remember my school years but I can't. I imagine I was a stud though.
Yarr, Matey!
'Tis Landlubber Sue informing Pirate Pete that I have received the plunder! My greatest thanks and smooth sailing!
I think that I have seen one child who MAY have had real ADD. And many who just needed to go outside and play for awhile.
My son was "diagnosed" as having ADD by his fifth grade teacher who simply didn't want to deal with a normal, active little boy who sometimes wanted to play outside more than he wanted to be in class. My son is a fidgeter and she didn't like that either. She said he was "disruptive." His disruption, as it turned out, consisted of wiggling his leg when the students were in the "daily circle." He may have been slightly learning disabled in an indiscernible kind of way, or he may just have been lazy about his penmanship but she said his sloppy penmanship was a sign that he was ADD. They wanted to put this bright kid on Ritalin! I said hell no. They said then he is not to re-enroll in the school for 6th grade.
I put him in a public charter school after that where in spite of a 145 IQ he was failing. He rebelled by not doing the homework. He was in a Waldorf school for the latter half of his seventh grade year, then in a very lax liberal arts school for a couple of years. He is now in a very rigorous private school with a liberal arts focus but including all necessary college prep courses and gets all A's and B's. So much for my kid being a failure and having "ADD." He just wanted to go out and play!
Sorry to run on, but here is something to consider about his teacher. This woman had the audacity to say to me when I told her that Michael was a bright kid who did not need Ritalin, he needed to go outside and run around and burn off some energy, and he needed to be allowed to go eat lunch with the other kids (she would keep him in at lunch to finish any work he might have let slide) that "well, Michael needs to do this because we don't want him to end up being a waiter like his mother." Believe me, my fist was ready to fly but I clenched it behind my back.
"Lady," I said, "I'm leaving now before I do something you'll really regret."
I think THAT teacher needed medication, my own dang self!
Thanks for letting me rant.
Caiman - There is a massive push these days to classify EVERYONE as something. Nobody can just be "normal" anymore.
CM - I think that kids are over medicated. Your story is fairly typical - except you refused to put your kid on drugs. And good for you! It is clear he did not need the drugs.
I think that maybe 5% of the kids prescribed Ritalin actually need it. That means 95% of the kids on the stuff just need to drink less fucking soda before and during school. But nobody makes any money by not selling soda.
I agree about the prescriptions not being needed, I have had countless frustrations with teachers, like with CM, who expect the boys to be cookie cutter students, and they are NOT. They are unique individuals with little quirks just like you and me. I hate having to sit there and listen about how my boy stuck an eraser up his nose. big freakin deal. He's a kid. They do that stuff. Get over it, what is with these teachers? They act as if the "child" is foreign to them yet they are being paid to be an expert on children so to speak. They spend more time with them during the day than we do, and they don't understand a boy? FREAKS. and to punish a fidgety kid, they keep them in at recess yeah, that is real smart. Take a kid that needs to get out his energy and make him sit still all the more and miss that opportunity. I wanna kick some teachers in the kneecaps
Ba Doozie - kicking in the kneecaps leaves too much evidence.
What you need is an OJ style ski mask and a lead pipe. Hide in the teacher parking lot and ambush them.
Throw the pipe in the nearest body of water. Before you toss the pipe duct tape the ski mask to it. The cops will never find it.
you better be right, or I'm calling you from jail for bail
Ill post your bail. I can also arrange for safe transport to The Bahamas.
Of only I had a boat that I could make the crossing with! Something with twin engines........
I think it's more that adhd is real but is over diagnosed. Yes there are times when children don't have it but are diagnosed either to make more money from drugs or to avoid dealing with problems but some people do actually have it
It's sort of like how the race card is abused. In the boondocks Huey says "yes there are cases where blacks have been imprisoned on trumped up charges but you rkelly ain't one." I think there are people who have it but that it gets over diagnosed
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