ADHD is not real

Your point. "One cannot acquire hyperactivity or the inability to focus. A particularly distracting environment might make a child less attentive, but then all children would be less attentive. ADHD is an anomaly, it is not caused by environment" I am sorry but this statement is completely false. For one, all children would not be less attentive because they all have had different upbringings. To say one does not acquire the trait of being unable to focus on a particular task is ridiculous, our personalities are even being shaped in the womb. There is ample research showing this. Our body and everything in it is effected by its environment as soon as it has an environment. If the mother is stressed in pregnancy the child will be more prone to addiction, anger problems and disruptive behaviour. So if even at this stage or personality is being formed, why is it so strange for us to acquire hyperactivity or the inability to focus. (and I must add that ADHD does not give you an inability to focus, it makes you more likely to get bored of things that don't interest you. Indeed you may focus more than 'normal' people on things you enjoy). So I am assuming you have limited knowledge of genes and the biology of behaviour? Anyone who knows about this in detail will tell you that genes are not determinants of behaviour or life, they are flexible (environment) to the point of completely self-destructing or changing completely. They are like an instruction book, that doesn't always need to be read in full, nor followed to the letter if the circumstances call for it. Indeed it is more complex than a book, for it has the capacity to change ITSELF in response to the environment and not just change transcription. The most flexible genetics are the ones coding for behaviours,, behaviour is basically hormone (on a biological level) and we know that hormones change in response to environment. For example there are thousands of types of receptors that pick up the same hormone, there can also be a lot, or not many of these, also the nerve cells 'characteristics' can be effected by other hormones, and the proteins that release these hormones can be made in different ways, the genes that code for all these variations respond to environment. It is impossible to talk about biology without environment. For example if you put a new born baby in a room on its own (for one you would have to feed it and that would diversify its environment, not to mention prenatal effects) it would die before long. So it is impossible to study the human outside the context of environment. For you to be thinking that we are born with genetically determined personalities that are set and are almost unchangeable is shocking to me, I thought we had all moved on from this. This kind of mentality is not so far from eugenics and other social models that lead to discrimination. You say. " It is not the environment that creates hyperactivity and attention deficit, it is the person." What does this mean? I it what I said before about the genetically determined behaviour? Another example of the circumstances of the environment changing personality follows: Children who are abused actually have a gene completely changed, that is not present before the abuse. You say. " I have personal experience with a school for Dyslexic and ADHD children and they still act exactly the same as they do in a regular school environment" Yes because they are already like that, perhaps over many years this would decrease, but I don't understand how this shows ADHD to be a product of genetics and and not society.