But my wife kept fishing around and found an “expert” who would tell her what she wanted to hear, so the kids are on meds.
This is exactly what I was referring to when I said that someone sees something that may fit and run full throttle with it. Your wife did just that. And more then likely learned to tailor her answers to fit the profile as she learned more knowledge of the disorder. So by the time she found the last expert she may have presented a saga of full blown ADD to him since she already had it in her mind that they did. She just needed to convince someone else. ADD is mainly diagnosed from questions asked of untrained school officals and parents. And there are numerous kids out there that are on meds based on these untrained opinions. Hence a large reason for my dislike of slapping labels on another if we do not have the medical training to do such.
I could post the questions asked since I have the worksheet sitting downstairs on my counter and you can see how easy it would be to manipulate the outcome.
My one son who is as smart as a whip. Does not apply himself and cuts up in class alot. So they suggested I take him to the doctor to see if he has ADD. Because they did not want to be responsible for dealing with his behavior they want me to slap him on meds. There answer to the questions were very much different then mine. So the doctor did not feel he had ADD. Now had I felt it was in his best interest to be on the meds I would have answered my part as if his behavior had a larger negative impact and wallah he would now be dosed to high heaven. It is all a case of amateurs playing doctors.
