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adhd and autism article

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  • 22-12-2010 12:10am
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    metrovelvet
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    I came across this interesting interview with Dr. Gabor Mate who says that current American parenting is behind the root causes of adhd/autism and bullying. The nurturing environment that has been replaced by the stressed nuclear family has led to poor impulse control and detached emotional responses in children.

    http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/24/dr_gabor_mat_on_adhd_bullying


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    byhookorbycrook
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    True ADHD is not the result of bad parenting. Likewise Autism.


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    Nevyn
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    Charming so we are back to the bullshít that parents cuase autism, it used to be blamed on the mother for being distant and not caring, utter claptrap.

    People who are on the autism spectrum are different on a neurological level hence the term non neurotypical.


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    Chuchoter
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    Did we not get rid of the whole 'refrigerator mother' theory decades ago?

    Although I would agree that ADHD is vastly overdiagnosed, things like autism are not down to parenting.

    Also, this nurturing environment we have lost, would this be the same one where women were limited to careers as housewives, subject to their husbands and discouraged from pursuing talents, while men were left emotionally crippled by strict rules governing masculinity? It wasn't nurturing, it was and is considered 'normal' therefore we assume it to be the best system going.


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