ADHD Diagnostic Criteria

“If nothing else, scrutinize the diagnostic criteria. Who doesn't know a child -- for that matter an adult -- who "has difficulty sustaining attention, doesn't seem to listen when spoken to directly, loses things necessary for tasks, fidgets, or is on the go constantly?"

For that matter who hasn't been that child at some point?

Couple such subjective diagnostic criteria with the fact boys outnumber girls with the condition by nine to one, and ask yourself whether the ADHD-diagnosis is not inadvertently targeting typical male exuberance.”

“Good news: abnormal behaviour is a disease”
North Shore News (Vancouver, B.C.), Sept. 6, 1999

Dr. Fred Baughman again:

“They made a list of the most common symptoms of emotional discomfiture of children; those which bother teachers and parents most, and - in a stroke that could not be more devoid of science or Hippocratic motive - termed them a 'disease.' Twenty five years of research, not deserving of the term 'research’, has failed to validate ADD/ADHD as a disease.”

ADHD Fraud – the official website of Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD (Neurologist, Pediatric Neurology)

Psychiatrist Al Parides:

“The DSM is also a masterpiece of deception. Shrouded in the rhetoric of “science”, every human emotion, experience, habit and activity is listed as a symptom of a mental “disorder”.”

“The Great Waste”

Now you know what the term 'ADHD' in Dr. Barkley’s ‘International Consensus Statement’ REALLY represents. Anything he wants it to!

In fact, you could replace the word 'ADHD' with the name of any other 'disease' whose methods of diagnosis have likewise not first been validated and what the Statement says would make just as much sense.

Next, ADHD Diagnostic Criteria - Part 2

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