Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann is the author of six books on ADD, including Attention Deficit Disorder, A Different Perception, Healing ADD: Simple Exercises that will change your Daily Life, ADD success Stories: A Guide to fulfillment for Families with Attention Deficit Disorder. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment facility for emotionally disturbed children, the co-founder of a school for ADHD children, a psychotherapist and one of America's most popular radio hosts.
At a recent national convention on ADHD, one speaker suggested "good science" argues that ADHD is entirely a pathological condition, a genetic illness, and that there is no value whatsoever in a person "having ADHD." Anybody who may seek to offer hope to ADHD children or parents was accused of telling "stories," the citation again being "good science." The speaker suggested that ADHD is purely a genetic defect; the neo-Darwinist theory being that sometimes genetic problems are simply "weaknesses in the evolution.
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