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So basically, if I read your test correctly, a person could be ADD if:
A. Yo aren't a neat-freak who has kept every bill, receipt, ticket stub and claim check they ever got in a color-coordinated filing system.
B. You are not easily convinced, or automatically agree with, anyone who plays to your emotions and predjudices, skillfully telling you just what you want to hear.
C. You don't have that touching faith in authority which allows you to believe McDonalds hamburgers are nutritious, the cars and beer make you have more sex, that wetness, dryness, and personal odors are a life-and-death crisis, and that the guy from the government really is here to help you.
C. You bore easily; in other words, faced with network TV sitcoms, radio stations that play the same twenty "classic rock" hits in the same order at the same time of day every day, you go looking for something interesting.
D. You are "creative and highly intelligent", as opposed to dull, dumb as a bagfull of hammers, and don't mind doing the same mind-numbing bullshyt every day for thirty years.
E. Trouble going through established channels, in other words, not willing to kiss some lazy, overpaid bureaucrat's fat pimply a s s for a permit to do exactly what you are supposed to do in the first place.
F. Trouble with authority: You have been known to say something other than "Gee, Mr. Policeman, thank you SO much for ticketing me for going 38 in a 35mph zone on an empty street at 2am."
There's more, but what it comes down to is this: We live in a culture where anyone who questions authority, who's not willing to be robbed, lied to and treated like a faceless number while being told its good for them, is considered a threat to the established collectivist order of things, and is therefore mentally ill. You, or your kid, is not a dull, slogging, conformist? You have a mind of your own, and actually use it? In public? You must have a disease, and need medicine.
Guess I must be one sick muthafukka.
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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It's no news that drugs are being perscribed every day for things which people should just deal with. It is also very true that many drugs are attempts to synthetically, or otherwise recreate chemicals created in our own brains & bodies.
Obviously the wrong "drug" or combination of drugs, or the wrong dosage can lead a person into a much worse place then they would have been without medication.
On the other hand, there are countless situations where a genuine chemical imbalance exists at no fault of the patient. No amount of "just say no" philosophy, or "Doctors are greedy thieves" mentality changes the fact that some peoples brains are already on "drugs" before they seek treatment, & proper medication finally improves their life making their brain comparatively "drug-free".
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thanks cam...but i think the rest of ya aint ADD...YOUR ALL OCD AND ANAL RETENTIVE!!!!
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Today I could answer yes to the majority of the questions and then tomorrow maybe only a few, am I a part-time ADD sufferer? We all have better days and whether its a syndrome or something in our diet can make lots of differences. Personally, I am alergic to chocolate, I love it and could eat a pound of M&M's right now but I know I can't without having problems with irritability and a short temper. It took years to understand why I would go into a ranting, cursing, foot-stomping and sometimes violent moods. Through self-analyses, trial and error I finally narrowed down the mood swings to diet and found that chocolate was the main culprit. I see people fill their kids with sugar, preservatives and junk food and then they wonder why Junior has behavioral problems. I tell them of my food allergies and they look at me like I'm an idiot (well I am in reality) but I do know that certain foods cause more mental problems than people will ever understand. So they put Junior on Ritalin and he goes up and down the mood ladder like a yo-yo. But,,, the doctors get a kickback from drug companies every time they write a scrip so Junior suffers the consequences when proper diet may have been the solution all along.
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If you can't find the time to do it right, where you gonna find the time to do it over? Posts: 486 | From: McLemoresville, TN. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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