Adult ADD Strengths

Just a reminder for those that don’t usually do well with New Year’s resolutions. There is an alternative. A New Year’s Theme.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And a happy Hanukkah, Kwanza and Akemashite Omedetoo Gozaimasu.

You can’t make stuff like this up. Nobel prize winning white scientist James Watson who claimed that black Africans were less intelligent than whites, according to the Independent,

has a DNA profile with up to 16 times more genes of black origin than the average white European.

An analysis of the genome of James Watson showed that 16 per cent of his genes were likely to have come from a black ancestor of African descent. By contrast, most people of European descent would have no more than 1 per cent.

16 Times more black genes. Hmmm.

From CHADD USA.

Unfortunately we in Canada are far behind the Americans on this sort of thing. But if you do live in the US, make the call. That is unless your satisfied with the availability and resources devoted to mental health treatment in the US. Politicians do respond to public pressure if there’s enough of it.

Action: On Friday, December 7th, use the toll-free Parity Hotline, 1-866-parity4 (1-866-727-4894), to call your representative and senators and leave a message urging their active support for the mental health and addiction parity legislation. (The Parity Hotline reaches the U.S. Capitol switchboard, which can connect callers to the offices of their members.) To locate your US Representative go to www.house.gov and enter your zip code in the upper left hand corner; go to www.senate.gov look up the Senators from your state in the upper right hand corner.