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Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:58:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
> > Come to think of it, I've come across lots of people who claim all kinds of
> > mental quirks that are hard to verify or disprove "I have dyslexia/I have
> > ADHD/I have Asberger's etc. etc. etc."
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> I don't really know anything about Asberger's, but there are definitive lists of
> symptoms for both dyslexia and ADHD. I know ADHD is a neurological disorder,
> not a psychological one, and I suspect dyslexia is as well.
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> > That's not to say that these conditions are themselves fictitious, but I've
> > met a statistically improbable number of self-diagnosed sufferers.
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> My parents have been reading up on ADHD recently, and I've been told that
> they've been finding it to be a lot more common than ever suspected.
Oh, I don't doubt that it's a real condition, and I don't even doubt that it may
have a higher incidence than previously known. But I'm uncomfortable with the
correlation between the ease-of-diagnosis and the
availability-of-profitable-prescription-medication. A grain of salt, I say.
> > Half a lifetime ago I worked at a Burger King, wherein the "fry scooper" had
> > only one handle, and it was on the right. I jokingly claimed that this was
> > discrimination against lefties, and I was assured that "no it isn't, because
> > there are more righties than lefties." Oh.
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> Perhaps, then, you'd be amused by the fact that the big Knights Kingdom knights
> are all left-handed specifically because most people are right-handed. If you
> try to make them attack using your left hand, the sword-arm will keep whacking
> your knuckles, but if you use your right hand, there's no interference.
Burger King? Knight's Kingdom? It sounds like a royal conspiracy, to me.
Dave!
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