XPost: misc.health.alternative, alt.psychology, alt.fan.unabomber   
   From: superstar@deadcelebrity.org   
      
   Day Brown wrote...   
   > ADD, ADHD, ICD, are all very different phenomena, certainly amenable   
   > to the testing system you report. Sorting one from the other is much   
   > more difficult. A few points are very common. The inability to pay   
   > attention to instruction. the inability to stay focused on a task long   
   > enuf to get it done, and a resistant, aggressive attitude to the   
   > authority which wants it done.   
      
   That sounds like a personality type, albeit an obnoxious one.  But what   
   gives you the right to define that particular personality type as a   
   mental disorder in need of $500/hour therapy?  The world is full of   
   people who grate on my nerves, including you, but that doesn't mean they   
   all have mental disorders.  The personality traits you describe are so   
   common that it would mean that a quarter of more of the population has   
   one of these "disorders."   
      
   The famous Unabomber criticized psychology as a tool to control human   
   behavior to suit the needs of the evil technological-industrial system.   
   If rocking back and forth and grunting was somehow useful on a factory   
   assembly line, autistics would be considered "normal" and humans   
   deviating from that behavior would be drugged and subjected to $500/hr   
   counseling sessions to induce it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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