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2014-04-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

"New Attention Disorder" Spurs Research, Debate

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Posted by Pappy 2014-04-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Wouldn't repealing Common Core (TM-Retarded) make them less sluggish?

Posted by 3dc 2014-04-14 01:51|| 2014-04-14 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Diagnosis of schizophrenia, Autistic Disorders, Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, and Attention Disorders are all 'tickets to ride' the Social Security disability train.

Welcome to Obamawaziland. No one works here, it wouldn't be fair.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-14 05:28|| 2014-04-14 05:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Nonsense Besoeker. If you'd really look, you'd see that it's Harrison Bergeron, not Simon Lagree.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-04-14 05:46|| 2014-04-14 05:46|| Front Page Top

#4 I could not get through the article; what does it say?

Posted by Airandee 2014-04-14 07:21|| 2014-04-14 07:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Let the indoctrination begin.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-04-14 07:42|| 2014-04-14 07:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like they're describing my mental state. And I thought it was the rum.

Posted by Woozle Creng5249 2014-04-14 09:35|| 2014-04-14 09:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Yet now some powerful figures in mental health are claiming to have identified a new disorder that could vastly expand the ranks of young people treated for attention problems. Called sluggish cognitive tempo, the condition is said to be characterized by lethargy, daydreaming and slow mental processing.

aka - being male (see-Tom Sawyer). It's a disorder from the female standard. A disorder much like hyperactive of the same group whose behavior distracts the matriarchy that dominates and operates the education institution and needs the administration of psychotropic drugs to imbue an environment conducive to their social limitations.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-14 10:43|| 2014-04-14 10:43|| Front Page Top

#8 It let me in okay, and I'm not a subscriber.

Second, it's the New York Times. Any more than a few paragraphs would get Fred in trouble. I don't want a bottom-feeding lawyer (but I repeat myself) doing a copyright suit.

I apologize for the inconvenience, but I'm not going to post the article verbatim - even in the comments.

Posted by Pappy 2014-04-14 11:10|| 2014-04-14 11:10|| Front Page Top

#9 sluggish cognitive tempo

Slow brains, eh? That could explain all those people voting for Obama a *second* time. Maybe they will eventually catch on.

Posted by SteveS 2014-04-14 12:08|| 2014-04-14 12:08|| Front Page Top

#10 sluggish cognitive tempo, New term for an old term. It used to be low levels of mental retardation. Brilliant, on to the Nobel prize with this one...

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-04-14 12:25|| 2014-04-14 12:25|| Front Page Top

#11 I find the term sluggish racist, and perhaps a bit sexist. How about achievable goal of equal results.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-04-14 13:06|| 2014-04-14 13:06|| Front Page Top

#12 ...sluggish cognitive tempo

I've never let it hold me back.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-14 13:51|| 2014-04-14 13:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Saw this yesterday. If daydreaming was medicated when I was in middle & high school I would have been stoned for life.

Posted by AlanC 2014-04-14 14:32|| 2014-04-14 14:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Huh?

Posted by Frank G 2014-04-14 14:45|| 2014-04-14 14:45|| Front Page Top

#15 My youngest was diagnosed with ADHD, she was just bored. She would finish school work and tests before everyone elese and was given nothing to stimulate her crave for learning. Ritalin was suggested but I flat-out refused.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-04-14 16:01|| 2014-04-14 16:01|| Front Page Top

#16 Thou *shall* conform to the contrived norm for human behavior or thou shall be drugged until you do!

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-04-14 16:58|| 2014-04-14 16:58|| Front Page Top

#17 From in back of the nanny state's skirt,
A brave whimper was heard to assert:
Before you say "slug,"
You insensitive thug,
You must issue a trigger alert!

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-04-14 17:00|| 2014-04-14 17:00|| Front Page Top

#18 I have not allowed cognitive timing
Or short headspace to mess with my rhyming.
As I chatter away
And the limericks spray,
Their point of impact keeps on climbing.

Or not.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-04-14 17:06|| 2014-04-14 17:06|| Front Page Top

#19 Two things the education industry just doesn't get;:

1. Some people really are just lazy and stupid.

2. The definition of "boy" is NOT "defective girl".

Any questions?

Posted by no mo uro 2014-04-14 17:39|| 2014-04-14 17:39|| Front Page Top

#20 Instead, let's just provide free heroin to everyone who wants it?

I mean we own Afghanistan; so, providing it can't cost as much as whatever Eli Lilly is selling.

Posted by rammer 2014-04-14 19:31|| 2014-04-14 19:31|| Front Page Top

#21 From the DSM IV now to V
Is just a psych docs' shuck and jive
If in doubt what to do
Give a Ritalin or two
And school's now a drugged out bee hive

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-04-14 19:36|| 2014-04-14 19:36|| Front Page Top

#22 "If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion." from THX 1138.

Posted by linker 2014-04-14 20:20|| 2014-04-14 20:20|| Front Page Top

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