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Doctors Are Talking About Creating A New Attention Disorder For ‘Daydreamy’ Kids
According to the New York Times, some researchers say that almost two million American kids could have a controversial attention disorder called “sluggish cognitive tempo.”
Half of these kids are a subset of the six million currently diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder — usually called ADHD. They make up a group of non-hyperactive children who have been sorted into the ADHD group, and could potentially be re-classified as having this new condition.
Another million children not being treated for ADHD might also fall under the sluggish cognitive tempo umbrella.
Characteristics of this disorder include mind-wandering, lethargy, and slow mental processing. These kids are “the daydreamy ones, the ones with work that’s not turned in, leaving names off of papers or skipping questions, things like that,” Keith McBurnett, professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, told Alan Schwarz of the New York Times.
Bill Bard says:
ADHD revitalised under a new guise (Daydreaming). WTF we’ve all been there.
Source: http://philosophers-stone.co.uk/wordpress/2014/04/doctors-are-talking-about-creating-a-new-attention-disorder-for-daydreamy-kids/
