I have an adult son with ADD. It's killing his career prospects. I have always blamed his computer obsession since early childhood. We have a lot of Amish near where I live; ADD/ADHD is unheard-of in their children. Sure wish I could do everything over; I'd have moved to rural Montana.
I avoid podcasts; they take too much time, but wh…
I have an adult son with ADD. It's killing his career prospects. I have always blamed his computer obsession since early childhood. We have a lot of Amish near where I live; ADD/ADHD is unheard-of in their children. Sure wish I could do everything over; I'd have moved to rural Montana.
I avoid podcasts; they take too much time, but when I started on this one I couldn't stop. Well worth the time invested. Thanks. You are changing the world.
I don’t think there was any such thing as ADD and especially not ADHD, until we had the first generation of Americans (Baby Boomers, my generation) who had spent their formative years (and through adulthood) with a TV in the household.
IIRC from reading “Driven To Distraction”, APA didn’t have a diagnosis for it until 1979.
I think there is a pathological component that makes some people more susceptible to the attention-destroying electronic than others.
I have an adult son with ADD. It's killing his career prospects. I have always blamed his computer obsession since early childhood. We have a lot of Amish near where I live; ADD/ADHD is unheard-of in their children. Sure wish I could do everything over; I'd have moved to rural Montana.
I avoid podcasts; they take too much time, but when I started on this one I couldn't stop. Well worth the time invested. Thanks. You are changing the world.
I don’t think there was any such thing as ADD and especially not ADHD, until we had the first generation of Americans (Baby Boomers, my generation) who had spent their formative years (and through adulthood) with a TV in the household.
IIRC from reading “Driven To Distraction”, APA didn’t have a diagnosis for it until 1979.
I think there is a pathological component that makes some people more susceptible to the attention-destroying electronic than others.