ADHD is not just an excuse for bad parenting, lazy, bratty kids, and pill-poppers.
Two human heads with light bulbs and machinery gears representing the concept of Intelligence, brainstorming and progress.The short answer is: really fast. U.S. rates of ADHD were already high at the turn of the millennium, but since 2003, the numbers of diagnosed children and adolescents have risen by 41 percent. Today, more than 6 million youth have received diagnoses.
neurodevelopmental disorder. The quality of one’s parenting doesn’t create ADHD — although it can influence a child’s development — and children with this condition are not lazy, but instead handicapped in their capacity to focus attention and keep still.Pharmaceutical firms have worked hard to expand awareness of ADHD as they pursue profits in a global market last estimated at $11.5 billion. But they didn’t create the disorder.
As a rule, girls more often than boys are socialized from an early age to cooperate and conform. One consequence of this is that girls with ADHD are more likely than boys to become anxious as they try to compensate for their distraction. Girls typically care more about their school performance — and in general what others think of them — than boys.
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