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"Paying Attention." Scientific American. "Increased Medication Use in ADD: Regressive or Appropriate?" JAMA "The Ritalin Controversy: What's Made This Drug's Opponents Hyperactive?" JAMA The Leading Edge Research Homepage newsgroup: alt.support.attn-deficit Wired Magazine, "Interrupt Driven" Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid Or Crazy?! Success with Attention Deficit Disorder and Hyperactivity Parents of Children With Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |
Wired Magazine, "Interrupt Driven" 1. Information was printed in Wired Magazine, widely available. 2. Actors: the article contains short biographies of persons with ADD as well as quotes from doctors who treat patients with ADD. Neither is specifically grouped in the article, but the idea of a ADD afflicted group is present. 3. The source appears to glamourize ADD in a rather perverse way. Persons with ADD are depicted as fast moving, brilliant people, who appear to be hair-brained because of their disorder. They are portrayed as being more capable of coping with todays high-tech world than the average person. After reading the article, one almost wishes they had ADD. In fact, the article contains a 20 question quiz which allows the reader to determine if they may have ADD. The questions however apply to almost everyone. After all, who isn't disorganized at times, procrastinate, get bored, become distracted, get impatient, frustrated, impulsive, and worry. And according to the article, if one should join the ADD group, they would be in good company: Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton are all described as exhibiting symptoms of ADD. This source paints an ADD "romance" of a tragedy, indeed an irony. The actors not shown are those who have had lives ruined by ADD, those how have been fired from jobs, had relationships destroyed, and been entirely debilitated by ADD. The strength of the source is that it shows what can be positive about ADD. But it is entirely weakened by its dishonesty and glamourization, creating an entertaining news article at the expense of truth. I believe that a person with ADD would be disgusted by the article. Reviewer: Wesley Harrington |
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