Adhd, An Excuse For Lack Of Discipline.

[dave50]

http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/leo-mckinstry/422158/Why-a-diagnosis-of-ADHD-is-welcomed-by-some-parents

As is said in the link, a benefits racket.

[Snafu03]

some kids are just little s****s - nowt to do with parenting. its a personality trait, albeit a negative one.

[andy-hughes]

Fred - 'Middle England' is a state of mine - it has no geographical boundaries.

[andy-hughes]

Sorry - state of MIND even!!

[sherrardk]

I have just googled ADHD and thing 1 has about 95% of the associated traits - I think she is just naughty and full of 'character'.

[FredPuli43]

Yes, Sqad, I once read a child psychiatrist's very full and lengthy report which contained the interesting line that the child did not display any masturbatory behaviour when observed. The child was a girl of 6 and apparently normal in all respects, at least to me and her mother, but what did we know?

But I also once saw an 'expert' doctor's report, of a murdered child, that said that the child was being malnourished. When asked why he came to this startling conclusion on a child of average weight, he replied that the stomach contents was potato. We had hardly the heart to tell him that the boy had, on the evidence, visited a chip van shortly before our client abducted and strangled him

[Sqad]

Fred.....LOL.....some medical reports are not worth the paper that they are written on.

[FredPuli43]

Sqad, the most fun (or dismay) is had when you get true experts, used to testimony, in the witness box. For a start, they are never as definite or outspoken in their conclusions as they were in their statement to your side and have a distressing tendency to go at least halfway to agreeing with the expert for the other side; I am sure they all meet in their St James's clubs and have a chat beforehand, over a delightful meal, to decide on an accommodation!

But where they enjoy themselves is when you have to put the defence case: "Professor, is it not the case that these injuries would be consistent with the injured party falling off a ladder?"

Prof: "Yes, perfectly true [Defence counsel cheers up at this happy development].....[long pauses].....but... only if he were 4 foot 2, weighed twenty stone, the ladder was 80 feet high, and , in descending, he executed what, I understand divers call "a triple back somersault with pike". I am not aware of evidence to support that hypothesis"

[Sqad]

Fred

\\ I am sure they all meet in their St James's clubs and have a chat beforehand, over a delightful meal, to decide on an accommodation! \\

No, it is at lunchtime in the nearest "greasy spoon" where you can get close to the female barristers and imagine what is beneath those white, starched buttoned shirts and tight figure hugging skirts.

[whiskeryron]

// Yes, Tora. I do wonder how many people were gluten sensitive or had nut allergies, for example, 50 or 100 years ago ! //

Do bear in mind tho' Fred there are more nuts about these days.LOL

WR.

[FredPuli43]

Sqad, no wonder young female counsel in my day always ate in the Bar Mess ! It wasn't safe outside!

[FredPuli43]

Andy, ah, yes. Middle England is a state of mind. The old, all male, juries were described as 'middle aged, middle class, and middle- minded'. Their descendants live on.