Mostly for being born boys rather than the girls wanted and expected by their mothers (more and more of whom know little or nothing about men or boys anyway), half a million British children are now drugged up to their eyeballs with Ritalin and such like as "treatment" for various non-existent conditions.
In fact, having long since decided that femaleness, simply in itself, was a medicable condition requiring the pumping of women's and girls' bodies full of highly poisonous substances in order to stop those bodies from doing what they do naturally, we now seem to have decided to treat maleness in the same way, and to get in even younger than we did with femaleness.
But has anybody noticed? Now, that's what I call an attention deficit.
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If it wasn't tainted by misogyny, I'd say you had a point about Ritalin. I've posted on it a couple of times, and if you want a comparable set of data, Guernsey's Education Department were particularly into prescribing Ritalin between about 1995 and 2000 to primary-school age children. There were several in my class alone.
ReplyDeleteVery many thanks. But what misogyny? I don't believe that simply being a small boy doing what small boys do is a reason to be pumped full of Ritalin. And I don't believe that being a young woman doing what (physiologically speaking) young women do is a reason to be pumped full of powerful drugs, either.
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