Most symptoms of ADD/ADHD are just normal behavior for boys. ADD/ADHD is overdiagnosed and overtreated IMO. If my oldest son were going to a public school, I guarantee you, he would have been "diagnosed" with ADHD and we'd be told to put him on meds, but there's nothing wrong with him other than being a normal, intelligent, 8 year old boy with ants in his pants and that's why we're going to be homeschooling next year ( he went to private school before). I looked up the symptoms of ADHD just out of curiosity and he has nearly every one of them, but I'm not slapping a label on him, because there's nothing wrong with him, HE'S A BOY!!
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at 3:50 PM on Jun. 23, 2008