From: yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich)
Newsgroups: misc.kids,misc.education,k12.chat.teacher,sci.med,chi.general
Subject: Re: Attention Deficit Disorder Resources
Date: 5 Oct 92 12:03:08 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <1992Oct5.071027.25468@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>In article <aidler.718259472@sanjuan> aidler@sanjuan.UVic.CA (E Alan Idler) writes:
>>The school adminstration and the mental health 
>>personnel suggested Ritalin to "manage his condition."
>>My wife rejected this solution because of her
>>preference for "non-traditional medicine."
>
>Ah, there's nothing like mother love, no matter how stupid.
>
>>A local naturopath diagnosed my son with allergies
>>to 49 different foods, everything from chicken to 
>>broccoli.
>
>Snort.  Why didn't you examine the entrails of a pig?
>That's about as meaningful as that crap is.
>
>>We chose to innoculate him against the
>>basic items, eg., alcohol (in fruit and vegetables) 
>
>?Alcohol?   "Inoculate him against alcohol???"  "Inoculate him against
>alcohol in fruits and vegetables?????"  No one could make such nonsense
>up, if they tried.
>
>>and wheat, etc., and eliminate some of the more exotic
>>foods, like almonds, from his diet.
>>Because he could not be de-sensitised against food 
>>additives, we never eat at restaurants and read labels
>>*very thoroughly*.
>
>Yes, well, it must be nice to feel like you're doing something.
>Even if it's not doing anything for the poor kid.

	Let me side wipe this asshole and speak in support of your
	efforts.  People who have lived and seen the huge impact
	of healthier living has on behavior.

	It's hard to imagine that:

	1) People would scoff at the possibliity/probability that all
	the chemicals and junk foods available today would be in any
	way irritating to the human body; particularly a weaker small
	child.

	2) That people would prefer/encourage/recommend drug therapy as
	a first choice to behavior modification before "cleaning up ones
	act".


>>The allergy treatments, modified diet, forbidding him to
>>watch violence on T.V., and more rigid routine at school 
>>and home has allowed my son to make some progress in 
>>controlling his own behavior without the possible
>>side-effects of Ritalin.
>

	Right!!!!!


>Tell me: what possible side-effects of Ritalin are you worried about?
>It wasn't even tried, I take it.
>

	Drug dependancy!!!!

>You don't happen to be a Scientologist, do you?  It wouldn't surprise me
>from the rest of this article of yours.
>

	Are you of the "Worship the almighty doctor" school?


>>I empathize with parents efforts to manage an ADD child
>>within their family.  Providing for my son's care has 
>>taken concerted effort from my wife (a full-time mother), 
>>myself, his two younger sisters, and our school district.
>
>Goodness knows what would be left to do if he weren't the focus of your
>attention.
>

	For people in this boat he/she/they  *NOT* having to be the
	center of our attention is, in fact, the goal!!!!!!!


>>For families with less resources (time) to contain one of 
>>these children, perhaps Ritalin is more appropriate treatment.
>
>And undoubtedly more effective.  I pity your son and your family, and what
>you've put them all though with your doctrinaire rigidity based on
>self-satisfied know-nothing ignorance.  You're no better than Christian
>Scientists who fail to take their child to a doctor when he or she has
>a bowel obstruction.  "Naturopaths", "allergies" and "inoculations",
>indeed.  Feh!


	And you're nothing more than a "take a pill as the cure"
	person.  

	You know, somking a joint helps, too.  Hey, it's just another
	drug. Why not?


-- 
	Alan Yasutovich
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