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Originally posted by Nickatilynx@Feb 11 2005, 03:19 PM
Just throwing in a .....Ya know....
When I was at school/college (I'm 44) no one I knew suffered from allergies
At my childrens school , you cannot wear any fragrance nor bring nuts into the school.
There are a least 6 kids I know of with the allergies...
Additionally no child was being treated for depression , anxiety , or ADD ADHD etc...
they were classed as "little shits" 
I raised this with a Shrink I know...
The comments were...
1.) No one had time to consider these problems , they worked and slept.
2.) They self medicated.He did in fact say that my Irish background is in part responsible for drinking to excess it is partly genetic and societal.
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yeah, I think people are more aware of these issues
I can't go into one of those Bed and Bath stores without my allergies going nuts...my wife can't wear certain types of perfumes and I have to have special shampoos, soaps and even shaving cream as I can't handle any sort of perfumes, colognes, etc. (btw, Aveeno products rock for people with frangrance allergies ;-))
Also, it used to be if a child was way way out of line, they were referred to as "shits" or just beaten...if someone had mental issues, they were locked up in an instituition or the family closet...
While I think there are way too many parents who simply give in and medicate their difficult children, it is important that we stay aware of these issues
Some of you know, my oldest son has selective mutism. At 9 years of age, he's never spoken a single word in school, he almost never talks when we are out in public and he won't even talk to some of our relatives. Years ago, he would have been classified as shy and put into a special ed program, when in reality he has this anxiety disorder than renders him unable to speak. He communicates to his teacher with sign language and for his reading assignments, he reads to me at home into a tape recorder, then takes the tape back to the school the next day to play for his class. He made a breakthrough by ordering from the ice cream truck driver himself and I lamost broke down in tears...him doing that is the equivelent of one of us walking on hot coals...most kids who have it, grow out of it but often get left behind in their studies because teachers just dismiss them as shy.
It is amazing the way these things are now publicly known and we have communications tools we didn't have several decades or even years ago
I fear us becoming too medicated of a society though as people will start to demand a medical solution to every problem (and degrading recogniztion for real problems).