You've already stated that you don't care whether ADD exists or not. That disqualifies you as someone who has an objective viewpoint. Your mind is closed. You can read as many reports as you want, but because you have no experience, and have a closed mind, your opinion is of little value. You have aroused an ISTP Protector for those with ADD. I will not relent. I have a lived truth to support me. You have mere theories, most of which you have only a dim understanding of.
I am a living proof against your many false claims.
I will not relent.
I specifically said that the existence or not of ADD and ADHD is a non-issue for me. It is a condition which is
overlydiagnosed, so there is no need to promote its existence. My issue, as I stated earlier, is with the knee-jerk desire to diagnose people as having either ADHD or ADD, and then medicating those people(particularly young children who can suffer severe effects from the medications), for what
typically amounts to making them easier to deal with for the adults in their lives.
My mind is indeed closed to more promotion of ADD and ADHD, plus medicating, without doing extraordinarily thorough examinations and rooting out of other potential causes for the behaviors that people exhibit. As I said, every single child I have worked with who has been diagnosed professionally with ADD or ADHD, and has had the opportunity to have someone look at their case and handle it thoroughly, eventually rooting out the cause of the problem behavior, has eventually lost their need to take medications. They are living proof to me.
If there is a way, as many professional psychiatrist, psychologist and even neuroscientist believe, to eliminate the combination of behavioral problems that we use to professionally diagnosis ADD and ADHD-without medication, wouldn't you prefer it? The diagnosis of ADD and ADHD are almost always made on the basis of
symptomatic behaviors. If the behaviors are eliminated, then the person is essentially "cured".
A person who is struggling behaviorally and cognitively has a right to assistance; the
least harmful and
most effective help available.
I have offered links to reputable articles on almost every "claim" I've made. You're arguing against David Keirsey, who has spent decades working with who knows how many people with a concentration on temperament, the blackbox warning on Ritalin, a school which claims to have eliminated almost all behavioral problems after implementing a healthy meal plan,etc...Seriously...