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Oct 01, 2020 at 08:09 AM
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I'm in my 50s, and I believe manage ADD OK enough as an adult and it helps to acknowledge it. As a child I had various issues consistent with ADD but there was no diagnosis then. In the late 1990s I started to research it more after finding out about it, and decided then that likely I had/have ADD. Subsequently I have learned a lot more.
I'd like to understand when it started to be recognised in UK schools, when did they start diagnosing and treating it? I asked a teacher, she thought 1990s where she worked. When I was young I was tested for dyslexia, which I think they did for every problem child. I'm not dyslexic! I have read that children were being diagnosed in 1970s in US and being given Ritalin. I don't think this was the case in the UK however. I can't go back in time but I wonder if things could have been a lot easier for me if there had been some recognition that I wasn't just badly behaved, disruptive in class, careless. J.S. |
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Oct 01, 2020 at 10:01 AM
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Here's an article that describes a bit about the history in the UK. It is in the section called "Transatlantic Translations." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5903618/
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Dec 11, 2020 at 08:47 AM
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Thanks for this, it is very interesting, and confirms what i had thought. Apologies it ghas taken me so long to come back.
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Dec 14, 2020 at 06:54 AM
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Thanks. Unfortunately the UK was some way behind the US and other countries like Sweden. ADD was recognised and treated widely until 1990s.
My experience at school in 70s, early 80s was to have eyesight an hearing checks, and then dyslexia test. Once it was confirmed no issues there it was simply put down to bad behaviour, carelessness, not paying attention. I went to three schools before I was 12, one of those moves because my parents thought I needed a stricter environment. Two of those three schools used Corporal Punishment, so I was beaten with a ruler, slipper and cane at school. |
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Dec 19, 2020 at 02:02 PM
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OMG Alpha, that's horrible. I'm so sorry that they did that to you. They didn't hit me at school, only b/c my mom wouldn't allow it, she was the only one allowed to "discipline" me. But, my reports used to always be the same thing, "needs to apply herself" "makes careless mistakes" etc. Careless implies we don't care & that just annoys the crap out of me. My intelligence was high but I had trouble retaining what I read & did horribly on tests. Often didn't even study for tests b/c somehow I'd missed the teacher even announcing that we were having one at all. Got into so much trouble for that repeatedly. My mom wouldn't even allow ADHD to be mentioned in the house. She freaked out. And b/c it's in the learning disability category, refused to even consider it. She insisted that there was nothing wrong w/me.
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