From: learn@speedy.acns.nwu.edu (William J. Vajk)
Subject: Re: Attention Deficit Disorder Resources
Organization: Dares No Organization Like Dis Organization
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 04:39:26 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.120308.1873@ll.mit.edu> Alan Yasutovich writes:

>	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.

I wasn't aware that anal retentives needed to wipe anything....

>	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.

My dear fellow, everything irritates someone. And pure water is, after all,
a universal solvent. I suggest that most adults would have a great deal
of difficulty keeping up with most "weaker small" children (except the
extreme cases.) Do you live among some form of mental primitives who
scoff at the problems of chemistry in our food supplies?

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

Drug therapy, successfully managed, enables the victim to recover through
the most important and most difficult steps and sets the stage for
behavior modification. All in all, a good successful drug therapy
also enables much faster normalizing of the patient as well as a lot
less stress in the long run. And stress takes its toll, as we know.

Steve wrote:

>>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?

(in the best of all possible Joe McCarthy voices....) Seems we have
one to add to the list.....

(Don't worry, Alan, you can still work in this world. After all, we don't
want to support you and yours so you can multiply at our expense...)

>>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!!!!!!!

Yep, so what you want to do is to make them the focus of attention for
years and years, with the hope that they will dislike the treatment
and improve. Tellya, Alan, get it over with quickly then and just
beat them into submission. If you don't kill or destroy them in some
other way first.

I'll gladly introduce you to a 41 year old woman whose father beat her
with a lathe belt several times a week for most of her growing years. Now
that IS the focus of attention, wouldn't you say? I'll bet it hurt him
a lot more than her. I'll bet he did it out of love and understanding
how to manage her problem. Her ex-husband told me he thought her dad
to be an honorable man..... 

You going to tell me that lesser forms of torture will do a better job?

>>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?

To someone who is seriously dehydrated, water and a number of quite
natural chemical substances are a medicine, not a drug. On the other
hand, sugar, wheat, alcohol, and other natural substances are a
"drug" to some people. So go ahead, Alan, eat this piece of bread
which is a drug to a goodly number of folks. Should I trust you to
report if it does strange things to you????

Flip responses to serious issues demean the subject. 

Bill Vajk