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To the people here who have ADD, or think they may, honestly do you watch much TV, or did you when you were diagnosed? I'm increasingly convinced the reason so many kids have these symptoms is due to an information overload from television and video games. How can you expect your kid to sit still in class for hours on end when he spends all weekend in a hyperactive video game world?
Our brains are naturally stimulated by jolts... our brain reacts every time something happens. It's our natural instinct that alerted us as soon as cave bears moved in primitive days. In school you don't get many changes or jolts, you're supposed to stay focused without something grabbing your attention every second. Kids watching MTV and shit are constantly being switched from one focal point to another, dozens of times a minute to keep their attention. Video games are worse. I'd love to see more studies done on how this new kind of information pollution affects the undeveloped mind of a child, but unfortunately most people would rather just look for new drugs to keep the kids calm.
Remember, decades ago we didn't care what chemicals were in our food, because everyone was eating the same things and no one questioned it. Now we're doing the same thing with information pollution they present to us and our kids as entertainment.
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