How does the ADHD diagnosis differ between social classes?
The disorder is found pretty much equally through different socioeconomic groups. ADHD is found in every culture, in every socioeconomic group, in pretty much the same prevalence. . . . I’m aware of one study that showed that black inner-city males were diagnosed with ADHD more commonly than you would expect from the general population. But again, this could be clustering. It could very well be a valid diagnosis. . . . Where is the controversy? . . . It’s not just ADHD that is controversial. The vast majority of people in this country don’t want to acknowledge that children have major mental illnesses of any sort. They don’t want to acknowledge that there’s childhood schizophrenia, that there’s childhood manic depression. They don’t like to acknowledge that some children murder other children. They don’t like the fact that there are childhood sociopaths. And yet, those things exist. The NIMH study that Peter Jensen authored concludes that all mental disorders in children are under-diag
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