We’ve turned classrooms into labs

The ADHD label has become too common. While blinding us with science, or, in the case of psychiatry, pseudo-science, the diagnostic criteria for ADHD could describe any child’s behaviour in school.

That behaviour has been redefined by clever manipulation, and corruption of what we know to be normal.

One of the items, describing inattention, used to diagnose ADHD, is: “often avoids, dislikes, or is reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort, such as schoolwork or homework.” This is descriptive of a normal child, in a normal school or a normal home, on a normal day, in a normal world, but psychiatrists would have us think otherwise.