Louis Theroux last neet.....

[Big_Sharps]

No, sorry, I meant pisstaking but never mind.

Wouldnt it be pischtaking?

[Diana Prince]

pisstaking or winding up?

no, just pisstaking.

[The Ghost of Burnden]

Wouldnt it be pischtaking?

nope definitely piss-taking (as in a broad Bolton accent frrom someone who originates from halliwell and sharples)

[The Ghost of Burnden]

no, just pisstaking.

sure you dont want to go 50/50 or phone a friend?

[Squidgy]

Great, Louis Theroux meets Chris Amos.

[The Ghost of Burnden]

Great, Louis Theroux meets Chris Amos.

n'ah it be boring and very very false!

[267]

n'ah it be boring and very very false!

No it won't, hopefully it'll be as interesting as that episode where he beat Eugene Terre'Blanche to death.

[bigsamsarmyusa]

My son is/was ADHD and was diagnosed at age 5 when he started school. 

The only TV he watched was an hour of Sesame Street a day.  We had no video game systems until he was about 10-12 years old.  His diet was low sugar and fat content.  He ate a lot of fruit.  After school he would play outside until it was time to come in and bath and go to bed.  When he was younger he played in the garden with his mates and we'd all walk up to the park and I'd supervise them playing on the playground equipment.

He was put on Ritalin when he was 6 years old and he stayed on it till he was 14 years old, when he asked if he could come off it and see if he could manage without the meds, so I agreed and thankfully for the most part he was okay because of the medication.

Even on the Ritalin, toward the end of the day, he had a very hard time staying focused on school work and getting him to do his school homework was torture for him and me.  He would subconsciously do really random, odd and dangerous things...such as thinking that sticking a paperclip into a wall plug socket would be interesting.  He had problems with cause and effect, having limits set, etc.  Focusing was all but impossible and he couldn't sit still (literally) and would constantly be rocking back and forth or he'd be sitting on the floor, swinging the TV entertainment centre door back and forth as he watched TV, completely unaware that he was doing it.

One thing that he could and did do with great focus and for hours at a time, most days, was draw.  He is an excellent artist.

I believe that there is ADHD and autism.  I also believe that some parents do just want to drug up their kids to make life easy.

For me it was an extremely difficult decision to make, placing my son on a narcotic drug.  I'm just glad that he calmed down enough with age that he was able to come off the medicine and live a functioning, fairly well-adjusted life.

Though we didn't have ADHD when we were kids, I do think that if his dad had been tested, it would show that he was/is afflicted with it too.

[a.s]

It was sad viewing, the 6yr old was just a kid playing up, he lost a game of marbles and was fine, then his mum said it out loud and he had a lame strop.....you could tell it was put on, but she seemed happy as it justified her drugging him up.

The 10yr old was tragic, he'd been told all his life that he was nuts and then had to take medication which isolated him even more. His parents spent the whole time slating the poor lad, hopefully he'll leave home and start a life without them, when the time comes.

I'm not arguing that some kids have these conditions, but the doctors were actively encouraging these poor-excuses-for-parents to drug them up even more, so they'd make even more money.

[Big_Sharps]

It was sad viewing, the 6yr old was just a kid playing up, he lost a game of marbles and was fine, then his mum said it out loud and he had a lame strop.....you could tell it was put on, but she seemed happy as it justified her drugging him up.

The 10yr old was tragic, he'd been told all his life that he was nuts and then had to take medication which isolated him even more. His parents spent the whole time slating the poor lad, hopefully he'll leave home and start a life without them, when the time comes.

I'm not arguing that some kids have these conditions, but the doctors were actively encouraging these poor-excuses-for-parents to drug them up even more, so they'd make even more money.

I agree with your judgement especially the one about the 10 year old, I felt really sorry for the 10 year old you could tell he was a bright lad with alot of untapped potential but he also seemed really withdrawn like he cant socialise with other people.

The lad that stropped whenever he losted needs a fcuking shoe throwing at him but the real villains are the doctors who try to keep themselves in worth by perscribing all these happy pills.

Thanks to ever started the thread because I wouldnt have been aware of this if it hadnt been highlighted as it falls out of the sharps demographic of tits, football or guns.

[a.s]

Sharps - you forgot wrestling!

[Big_Sharps]

Sharps - you forgot wrestling!

I dont watch that shite anymore and apart from watching it for nostalgia reasons the other week, I hadnt watched it for 6 months prior.

[Natasha Whittam]

My son is/was ADHD and was diagnosed at age 5 when he started school.  

The only TV he watched was an hour of Sesame Street a day.  We had no video game systems until he was about 10-12 years old.  His diet was low sugar and fat content.  He ate a lot of fruit.  After school he would play outside until it was time to come in and bath and go to bed.  When he was younger he played in the garden with his mates and we'd all walk up to the park and I'd supervise them playing on the playground equipment.

He was put on Ritalin when he was 6 years old and he stayed on it till he was 14 years old, when he asked if he could come off it and see if he could manage without the meds, so I agreed and thankfully for the most part he was okay because of the medication.

Even on the Ritalin, toward the end of the day, he had a very hard time staying focused on school work and getting him to do his school homework was torture for him and me.  He would subconsciously do really random, odd and dangerous things...such as thinking that sticking a paperclip into a wall plug socket would be interesting.  He had problems with cause and effect, having limits set, etc.  Focusing was all but impossible and he couldn't sit still (literally) and would constantly be rocking back and forth or he'd be sitting on the floor, swinging the TV entertainment centre door back and forth as he watched TV, completely unaware that he was doing it.

One thing that he could and did do with great focus and for hours at a time, most days, was draw.  He is an excellent artist.

I believe that there is ADHD and autism.  I also believe that some parents do just want to drug up their kids to make life easy.

For me it was an extremely difficult decision to make, placing my son on a narcotic drug.  I'm just glad that he calmed down enough with age that he was able to come off the medicine and live a functioning, fairly well-adjusted life.

Though we didn't have ADHD when we were kids, I do think that if his dad had been tested, it would show that he was/is afflicted with it too.

I don't really have anything to say to that post as I don't have kids. But it was a powerful post nonetheless.

[bigsamsarmyusa]

I don't really have anything to say to that post as I don't have kids. But it was a powerful post nonetheless.

It seems a bit trite to say thank you, as what I said in my post was honest facts...but thank you anyway.

By the way, when I said we didn't have ADHD/Autism when we were kids, I didn't mean literally but rather that there hadn't been a diagnosis.

I also wanted to say a couple of other things that I have since recalled:

1.  Before he was placed on medications he was given extensive psychological/psychiatric testing to rule out any number of other possible ailments.
2.  While he was on the Ritalin he had to attend counseling a minimum of once per month with a psychiatrist.
3.  He had to have blood work done every 6 months to check for liver damage (a possible side effect of Ritalin).
4.  I don't know what this show is or who the bloke is and I don't know if it is a UK or US person/show; however, I do know that as a narcotic, Ritalin is extremely regulated in the USA.
5.  As with the majority/all ADHD sufferers, self-esteem is about as low as it could possibly be.  So positive reinforcement is a must.
6.  My son, due to self-esteem issues, was also a self-harmer (cutter) in his early teens and this, apparently, is not unusual either, so diligence is ongoing into adulthood.

Thankfully, time and maturity seems to help ADHD sufferers as they learn to cope and/or manage their ability to focus and be a functioning adult.