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lion
| | #1 posted April 4, 2004 at 4:59pm (EST) |
Hi ASB,
You really should have your child tested by a ADD/ADHD specialist who can evaulate a patient correctly. Therapist, and doctors, as good and competent as they are, may not be able to provide an accure evalution simply because they are not trained to look for the right symptoms.
It may not be he has ADD/ADHD but bipolar disorder or anxiety. The three masks as each other and can be diagnosed incorrectly if the professional does not know what s/he is looking for.
He could also simply be depressed -- being a teenager can be morbidly depressing. Conventional talk therapy maybe the way to deal with his issues.
Yes, ADD does run in families -- but so does other psychological behaviors which can be passed down from one generation to the next. For example, an anxious mother can pass on that anxiety to her child simply by being anxious around him. It may appear as if both child and mother have ADHD because they are hyper all the time, but in reality it maybe because they are driven out of a sense of fear and not from a genetically induced impluse.
I highly recommend picking up a copy of "Driven to Distraction" by Dr. Hallowell. He talks a lot about ADD/ADHD, children with ADD, adults with ADD, and the people who have to deal with an ADD person. He also goes into how ADD may not be ADD but other psychological problems.
He also runs two ADD clinics in the Boston suburbs which handle evaulations and therapy.
The clinic's web site is: http://www.drhallowell.com/
Good luck!
-- Michael
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lion
| | #2 posted November 19, 2002 at 4:42pm (EST) |
Cody,
That was a good response, however, it had very little to actually address what romkey said.
He was trying to point out while science does propose various "truths" those same "truths" can be misinterpreted either unintentionally or intentionally.
The reason people are getting frustrated with you here is your tact is to use hard facts to try and support a flawed conclusion, or conclusions which may be *one* of many possible interpretations. Yes, there are many points where you are right, but there are many points where you are wrong.
You are a very knowledge, bright young individual, yet your wisdom is quite lacking.
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lion
| | #3 posted April 25, 2002 at 10:24am (EST) |
Bill,
How about a filter mechanism for Feedback and Forum?
-- Michael
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lion
| | #4 posted April 16, 2002 at 12:14am (EST) |
Drop the act Joe.. Its insulting to Muslins.
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lion
| | #5 posted March 13, 2002 at 1:50am (EST) |
How about just sending me the photos later? Or you could post the pics to i-am-looser-or-not.com
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| | #6 posted March 13, 2002 at 1:13am (EST) |
Better do as they say Joe, or else I'll fedex Mandy and Kate the rusty needles, and burlap thread so they can sew your holes shut. |
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lion
| | #7 posted February 27, 2002 at 5:42pm (EST) |
I don't use the Java chat app, but isn't the purpose of RELOAD to _reload the application_? Assuming the reload link reload's the app, it would close the current instance of that app, and then start up a new instance. In other words, you telling chat to exit, and restart itself.
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lion
| | #8 posted February 21, 2002 at 3:44pm (EST) |
I'm 60% Gay! |
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lion
| | #9 posted February 9, 2002 at 4:46pm (EST) |
Again, you should reread my original proposal of having different levels of filtering/disable, and bill's reply.
The survey you pointed out would look a little funny with various levels of html stripped out of it, but the text would remain.
Any option that can be turned on can be turned off...
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| | #10 posted February 9, 2002 at 1:19pm (EST) |
As you know, a lot of people, including myself, on here like to insert HTML tags into their comments to add style, emphasize words/meaning, include a picture, be cute, etc, etc.
This can be a good thing, or a bad thing. It can really enhance, if used properlly, a user's comments, or detract from a user's comment meaning, and in somecases slow down the display of a particular survey.
For purposes of this discussion, I'll skip the self-evident points of a nice stylized HTML-using comment.
Let's take the case of it where it can detract from a user's comment:
As I'm reading through a survey, trying to figure out what someone is saying, trying to really get their meaning, and suddenly they decided to <FONT SIZE=+4>USE A REALLY BIG FONT!</FONT>. Okay, so they really had to say something. Or they really wanted to be silly, or both.
Well that is pretty distracting isn't it? Maybe the first time, or maynot not until you see the same comment 10 times with the same LARGE FONT. It detracts from the comment, it interrupts the flow of the reading, and may affect how someone feels about your comment in ways you may not have intended.
By having an option to allow me to disable the HTML in a user's comments, it can be a nice aid to allow me to not be distracted by all the flare . It could help me concentrate on what they are trying to say and not have to worry about getting around all the large fonts, text that scrolls back and forth, and odd use of HTML and/or style within their comment.
There is also the issue of rendering the HTML on different platforms and web browsers. There are several browsers out there currently - Internet Explorer, Netscape (and its brother Mozilla), Opera, Lynx, iCab and a host of others. Each of these runs on different platforms - Mac and Windows platforms being the two biggest. No two browsers on no two systems render the same - similar, but not exactly the same. Say for example, an HTML font size +4 may end up being only 2 inches on your screen, but may end up being 6 inches on someone elses.
In otherwords, what may look good to you may end up look like crap to some else not because of their tastes, but because of how their browser rendered/displayed the HTML.
Next, lets look at the case where someone decided to put a picture into their comment. This is done typically through the use of the IMG tag.
There have been a lot of times where people have put a picture into their comment to enhance what they are talking about. Most of the time its great -- it adds a bit of color to things. But again, sometimes its distraction for reasons I listed above.
But, there's another reason here in the case of pictures - slowness of loading that picture A site which hosts that picture may be close to you on the Internet from where you are connecting from, but it maybe really far-away or really congested to get to from where I am. Or I may be on a slow dial-up connection and I'd prefer to just see the user's text and not have to site for several minutes waiting for all the pictures to load.
By allowing a user to specifcy HTML tags to be displayed or not for comments, it can greatly enhance their experience of surveycentral. For some users, load time can be improved, for others it can act as a reading aid, and for some it can take the stress out of having to look at some really poor, probably unintended, style choices.
Make sense?
-- Michael
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