Food for Thought
April 21st, 2009
I found this t-shirt while prepping to give a lecture on Autism Spectrum disorders… Is this an attempt at Asperger’s awareness or an excuse for bad behavior? Students in my class thought it might explain the reasons why more parents want their odd child to be diagnosed…
I agree with your students. However, I don’t just think it is parents that diagnose odd children to figure them out. There are plenty of kids that have been diagnosed with ADD or ADHD that are just different. Psychiatrists respond to that difference by prescribing ridlin or some other drug, and so many kids are unable to articulate the fact that the ridlin just isn’t right for them. So we end up with a huge group of people that have had their chemicals unbalanced for years. Can’t be healthy.