ADD / ADHD Advocacy

ADHD Is Not Caused By Watching TV, Study Shows

Quelle surprise. ADHD myth #405 busted. So many myths. Nice that there is science to call out the ignorant ADHD stigmatizers. A while ago a study implied that early exposure to TV might cause ADHD. A new study in Pediatrics, March 2006, Volume 117 / ISSUE 3 by Tara Stevens, Miriam Mulsow showed that “as far as ADHD symptoms were concerned, […]

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Does ADD Really Exist? How to Answer this Question, Part 1

UPDATE: Part 2 with the clinical evidence of ADD as a real condition is here Does ADD/ADHD Really Exist? I’ve had a great response from my Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career blog post, 30,000 plus unique hits so far, 78 comments so far and lots of links and comments on

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10,000 Unique Visitors Before Breakfast. Great To Wake Up To!

2nd Update. 30,000 Unique hits in 3 days and hundreds of links. Very 🙂 Update. At the end of my very happy blog explosion today, I got 22, 500 Unique Hits, 1074 diggs and #2 in Del.icio.us popular at 275, and a ton of links to sort through, and mainly some very encouraging comments on

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3978 Unique Visitors in 1 Day. Wow, There Are a Lot of ADDers in the High Tech World

Wow. Digg rules. Instead of the usual hundred or so unique visitors to this blog, I’ve gotten nearly 4,000 (3978 to be precise) today, because of my post Top 10 Advantages of ADD in a High Tech Career. I emailed out to a few people and put it out to digg.com 20 hours ago (have

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What’s the #2 Genetically Inherited Condition in the World?

ADD. Height is #1. At an ADD conference I attended here in Vancouver last June, many presenters had slides showing that ADD was the #2 genetically inherited condition in the world at 80%. Height was #1. Here’s one article on Medline that talks about it. In terms of etiology, ADHD is a neuropsychiatric disorder. There

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