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Re: It's called ADD or AD/HD
by shrike10997

Oh, come on.

Personal responsibility is at a historical low in this country. Everything that is in your life can be affected by you to some extent; you therefore have the responsibility to affect it as much as you can to benefit yourself.

But, focusing again, a boy who can't concentrate in school is not necessarily suffering from a genetic condition - of any kind. School may simply be boring, lacking in conflict, challenge, and struggle. Which explains why this same boy can concentrate on video games replete with the same characteristics.

The way to help a boy who is struggling in school is to fill his life with struggle, conflict, challenge - and support - so that when the time to concentrate on less enjoyable subjects comes around he has already learned the life lessons that allow him to patiently sit through something unpleasant.

Not to prescribe him a regimen of pills.

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