On May 17 18:53 96, Lawrence Dumas of 1:229/510 wrote to Jerry Schwartz:
LD>      This is bang on, but to quibble a bit I maintain that the 
qualities"
LD>      that come with this "condition" aren't behavioural problems unless 
you
LD>      take a child and force/expect him/her to sit at a desk for hours on 
LD> end
LD>      ad nauseum.  I have become a fan of Thom Hartman's theories as laid 
LD> out
LD>      in his book: "Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception". 
t
LD>      is a good read and I recommend it highly.  My interpretation of his
LD>      thesis is that ADHD is adaptive in an environment that is 
timulating
LD>      and mal-adaptive in an environment that is not-stimulating.
I cannot imagine that my son would be a successful hunter, if that's what 
you're getting at.  I don't hold out my son as typical of ADHD; I think there 
is more than that wrong with him - and I do mean wrong, not "different."  He, 
like the rest of us, has to live in the world and he seems rather 
ill-equipped to do so.
Have you ever read the book "A Confederacy of Dunces" by Toole?  My son is 
scarily like the main character.
Jerry Schwartz
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