If there's anything that gets my blood boiling nowadays, it's the overdiagnosis of attention deficit disorders and, especially, learning disorders with teens. Parents can't longer handle the fact they've raised a child that is slightly less bright than the pack or lacking in proper manners. Instead of accepting that, they consult a series of psychologists and psychiatrists until they get the bloody diagnosis they want. Things have gotten rather out of hand these past twenty years. When I was six and I joined the scouts, I remember there was one kid with autism and, granted, he could really get his knickers up in a twist. But by the time I left, when I was twenty-one, HALF of those kids had ADD, dyslexia, asperger's, autism, NLD, ADHD, or a combination of these. ****ing hell, parents. Suck it up and accept your kid isn't perfect. Your beloved son is slow reader? Must be dyslexia. He keeps twisting the neigbours' arm? Sorry, must be his ADHD.
Of course I won't deny that some people have been rightfully diagnosed with these disorders, but please forgive if me if I hold my reservations whenever the umpteenth person comes claiming they have ADHD or dyslexia.