June 20, 2008
June 11, 2008
Sure. No Sampling Error Here.
Nor
sublimation.
Remember "food is the good girl's sex"? I guess shopping is the London/Park Avenue/Montana Avenue version of food.
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June 10, 2008
Oh, Fiddlesticks.
If the blinky screen thingie is so difficult to concentrate with,
Nicholas, why not pick up a book? Oh, right: you
can't. Just like you couldn't do your research in an old-fashioned liberry without getting distracted.
Gawd. Take some Ritalin, for crying out loud.
(I just read the article on-screen, though I'm two feet away from the paper version. It wasn't super-deep, if you want to know the truth.)
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Gawd. Take some Ritalin, for crying out loud.
As someone who has A.D.H.D. and took Ritalin till I was 18 years old, I think that comment was a bit uncalled for. A.D.H.D. is a real disability and I've lived through the hell of it, yes, I did quit school, because my math skills are horrible, because of it.
So, while I think your observations about the article are correct, your quip was uncalled for. You owe me and every other A.D.H.D. and A.D.D. sufferer an apology.
-Chuck Adkins
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Posted by: CHuck Adkins at June 11, 2008 07:33 AM (BH4he)
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Except that I, also, have attention-span problems for which I take Ritalin.
And I also quit school--several times. And math is the area in which my inability to concentrate hit me the hardest.
But I still think it's a bit rich for the
Atlantic writer to blame the internet (or Google as emblematic of same) for his unwillingness to read a book or even a longer article, since we've established that he's a writer and he used to read plenty of books and articles. That's just silly.
For the record, I'll specify that typing changes the way I write, but in the opposite fashion from what the article suggested: because it's faster, it's a more direct means of communicating thoughts, and the thoughts are more complete the first time. (Though of course one still has to edit.)
Posted by: Attila Girl at June 11, 2008 10:11 AM (1q/ac)
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Dear Chuck;
If you still be reading this... please explain ADHD to me.
The reason I ask is because (while I cannot prove it) I believe that a lot of what we call 'psychiatric problems' or 'mental health' is, while not hogwash, greatly exaggerated.
I mean, AFAIK, ADHD described on paper (well, you know what I mean) sounds very much like being a typical kid. Short attention span, easily distracted, gets frustrated easily, hyperactive, shoot - most of my cousins could be described in exactly those terms, and yet they're all fine now. Sedate young gentlemen, instead of the young hooligans and ruffians literally climbing and sliding down bannisters.
I'd be really interested in hearing what differences there are. And whether non-pharmaceutical solutions exist.
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