So, Kennedy claims that ADHD doesn't exist, but he nonetheless had it as a child. He was (apparently?) cured of it by using cocaine (which, we all agree, is NOT healthy) and/or by his very healthy diet that caused him to get a brain worm. WTF?
25 years ago I developed a camp program for kids for the OSPCA. My nieghbour at the time has a child, Cameron, who has ADHD. Cameron’s mom wanted her child to attend the camp. Cameron was a handful at home and school, but I agreed. I was curious to see if contact with animals, combine with an active, stimulating program would have a positive, moderating effect on Cameron’s behavior. It was only one week but Cameron was not a handful at all. At home and school adhd would continue. I would have loved to have grown this study but it was not meant to be.
I taught 5/6 graders about ecosystems at an outdoor science school for 6 years. So about 3000 kids in my career. We hiked in the woods and learned 4-6 hours a day. It was often the case that kids who were "hyper", or "difficult" according to their teachers' reports, were fine in my trail groups. Sometimes they were the most attentive and insightful students. Kids are not meant to sit in a room at a table with their age cohort 6 hours a day writing things. Nobody is. Our entire educational model is deeply flawed... but don't get me started on that. In that job I eventually stopped reading the kids' reports, unless there were some severe red flags or disabilities, so that I would not become biased of the kids with "codes" on their records.
I graduated from high school in 1970, and I'm half a year older than the idiot. When I was a junior, a freshman boy I knew (the kid brother of one of my friends) was diagnosed ADHD and given whatever med they were using then. And by the time I graduated, one other guy had been so diagnosed.
So, A), people DID indeed know about ADHD when toilet seat-cocaine-snorter and I were kids, and B) it was hardly an epidemic. Very possibly it is over-diagnosed now, but whether environmental factors (leaded gasoline, glyphosate, insecticides in food, sewage in drinking water, etc.) or physical and psychological ones, or genetic ones, have caused the rise in diagnoses, OR whether it's simply a factor of being better understood, better recognized, and more susceptible to treatment, is not for me to try to answer.
What I do know is that RFK is the most incompetent, unqualified, mentally unstable Secretary of the DHHS this country has ever seen, and among the five or 10 worst cabinet officers (the others, except for two under Nixon and a few under Harding, are all in the same regime) the nation has had in high office in 249+ years.
Ta, Robyn. I'm neurodivergent AF, but take no medication for it. Yes, there are times it's difficult to focus. There are other times it's easy. It's task-dependent. If I like it, I can do it more easily than I can something I loathe.
I am totally that way, but I chalk it up to a general lack of motivation/ laziness. I really don't study well unless I am interested. Unfortunately many of my college courses were not interesting to me, so it took me a looooong time to graduate. As a classroom teacher most of what I was supposed to teach was not interesting to me, or if it was we were just touching on it and moving on. If I am bored with a thing, what am I supposed to expect of the kids? As a 5th grade teacher for a short period of time I had to study algebra at home so I could teach it. I have a ton of interests, and I love to learn, but not about algebra. Luckily I was reassigned after a semester.
How wonderful that people with extremely stupid ideas have a huge megaphone they can use to broadcast those ideas to millions of gullible idiots without being challenged. Congratulations Joe Rogan.
The regime is all about the grift, so I figure that the peptide manufactures are giving him a kickback.
So, Kennedy claims that ADHD doesn't exist, but he nonetheless had it as a child. He was (apparently?) cured of it by using cocaine (which, we all agree, is NOT healthy) and/or by his very healthy diet that caused him to get a brain worm. WTF?
What a fucking tool.
Fuck Trump.
25 years ago I developed a camp program for kids for the OSPCA. My nieghbour at the time has a child, Cameron, who has ADHD. Cameron’s mom wanted her child to attend the camp. Cameron was a handful at home and school, but I agreed. I was curious to see if contact with animals, combine with an active, stimulating program would have a positive, moderating effect on Cameron’s behavior. It was only one week but Cameron was not a handful at all. At home and school adhd would continue. I would have loved to have grown this study but it was not meant to be.
I taught 5/6 graders about ecosystems at an outdoor science school for 6 years. So about 3000 kids in my career. We hiked in the woods and learned 4-6 hours a day. It was often the case that kids who were "hyper", or "difficult" according to their teachers' reports, were fine in my trail groups. Sometimes they were the most attentive and insightful students. Kids are not meant to sit in a room at a table with their age cohort 6 hours a day writing things. Nobody is. Our entire educational model is deeply flawed... but don't get me started on that. In that job I eventually stopped reading the kids' reports, unless there were some severe red flags or disabilities, so that I would not become biased of the kids with "codes" on their records.
THIS. Absolutely.
I really didn't need another reason to feel contempt for Bobby, but I guess I've got one anyway.
Tl:dr - Bobby Brainworms is a nutjob who has no business running anything more complicated than a lemonade stand.
Can we lose food dyes just to shut this guy up already?
This is someone who woefully needs to be removed from his position.
Might be ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) 😁
RFK Jr. can fuck all the way off.
I stopped reading at “global leadership”.
You had (lost) me at "Joe Rogan's Podcast".
Fuck Trump.
I hate to keep bringing up that a worm ate part of his brain, but I'd be shocked if he didn't have ADHD.
Kinda pissed off these idiots were confirmed by supposedly competent congress people. It’s just unbelievable.
We're in a world where $$$=competence
I graduated from high school in 1970, and I'm half a year older than the idiot. When I was a junior, a freshman boy I knew (the kid brother of one of my friends) was diagnosed ADHD and given whatever med they were using then. And by the time I graduated, one other guy had been so diagnosed.
So, A), people DID indeed know about ADHD when toilet seat-cocaine-snorter and I were kids, and B) it was hardly an epidemic. Very possibly it is over-diagnosed now, but whether environmental factors (leaded gasoline, glyphosate, insecticides in food, sewage in drinking water, etc.) or physical and psychological ones, or genetic ones, have caused the rise in diagnoses, OR whether it's simply a factor of being better understood, better recognized, and more susceptible to treatment, is not for me to try to answer.
What I do know is that RFK is the most incompetent, unqualified, mentally unstable Secretary of the DHHS this country has ever seen, and among the five or 10 worst cabinet officers (the others, except for two under Nixon and a few under Harding, are all in the same regime) the nation has had in high office in 249+ years.
Ta, Robyn. I'm neurodivergent AF, but take no medication for it. Yes, there are times it's difficult to focus. There are other times it's easy. It's task-dependent. If I like it, I can do it more easily than I can something I loathe.
I am totally that way, but I chalk it up to a general lack of motivation/ laziness. I really don't study well unless I am interested. Unfortunately many of my college courses were not interesting to me, so it took me a looooong time to graduate. As a classroom teacher most of what I was supposed to teach was not interesting to me, or if it was we were just touching on it and moving on. If I am bored with a thing, what am I supposed to expect of the kids? As a 5th grade teacher for a short period of time I had to study algebra at home so I could teach it. I have a ton of interests, and I love to learn, but not about algebra. Luckily I was reassigned after a semester.
How wonderful that people with extremely stupid ideas have a huge megaphone they can use to broadcast those ideas to millions of gullible idiots without being challenged. Congratulations Joe Rogan.