More and more children are being diagnosed with disorders such as ADHD and autism. Dr. Gabor Maté of Canada says that the root cause is that the nurturing environment necessary for proper child development has collapsed in America, leading to children who are emotionally detached and have difficulty controlling their impulses. This 60-minute interview is fascinating—be sure to watch it all.
Or, to save time, just scroll down below the video options to read the transcript. (Thanks to Skylar for the suggestion.)
Dr. Gabor Maté on ADHD, bullying and the destruction of American childhood, on DemocracyNow.org.
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Hi Oxy,
I don’t know if you got my request, but I asked Donna to forward an email to you. Maybe I was paranoid (I confess to hypervigilence some times.) but I read two different postings to you from supposedly two different people but nearly the same wording and made me think trojan trying to get to you. I might have seemed crazy but thought you’d understand.
I am in South Florida. Just a couple of miles away from the Deerfield Beach middle school where there have been 2 incidents within 6 months of each other. Not bruises!!!
they set Michael Brewer on fire!!!!
and the sicko kicked and beat Josie Lou Ratley into a brain damaged state.!! The word is the kids say… “kick’em till the timbers run red”. They buy Timberland hard toed boots at Walmart and then use them as weapons to kick the others until they bleed!!
Cruel?? No!!! SICK!!! Middle School aged “children” of God! WTF are they doing? This area is mixed social class, it’s not like Overtown in Miami, where they shoot and kill each other every night. I spend the first 10 minutes of the morning news catching up with who shot who in Miami last night. And then I pray for 10 minutes that it doesn’t move up to my area. What is going on with these children?
PS> Both of these children have been on national news and I have not revealed anything not publicized!
soimnottherazee1!!
Dear KatyDid, I sent you an e mail, wasn’t sure why you hadn’t answered it. I don’t worry about trojans here on LF—this is one place I’m NOT paranoid….the trolls who come through here once in a while don’t bother me any more. I’ll check back and see why my e mail didn’t get through to you.
Notcrazee—I lived in Miami Dade area in 1980s for a while and it was horrible, I was never so happy to ESCAPE from some place as I was from Florida and I have lived all over the world from LA to New Orleans and central and south America and Africa….and felt the most threatened in Florida. I came back to Arkansas in 1989 and was glad to be back here,, but danger can be in any area and from any socio-economic level, any race, any educational level—psychopaths are EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ABUSERS.
“Kids” like this I think should be locked up and the keys thrown away for their natural lives….but unfortunately I think too many times they are given another “chance” by an ill-advised social system that seems to think that prison rehabilitates people who are violent to start with. It CONTAINS them, but just like that guy they executed in Oklahoma the other day, he was doing multiple life sentences when he tricked his cell mate into letting him tie him up and then strangled the guy, and WROTE THE GUYS MOTHER A LETTER TELLING HOW HE DID IT and that the guy didn’t die like they “do on TV” that it took longer. Before he was executed, he said he was “sorry” and apologized—DUH??? He was executed with the same drugs that they use to put animals down with.
Though I have come to be “against” the law putting people down in the death penalty, since there was NO DOUBT that this guy was guilty—NONE, ZIP, ZERO, ZILCH—I don’t have a problem with it. Because several people have been released off death row by DNA evidence of INNOCENCE, though, I am not “for” the death penalty except in a few cases like the one in Oklahoma.
If even 1% of the people in prison now are actually innocent that is still a huge number of people, as there are about 2 MILLION people in prison/jail in US alone. I imagine there are more than 1% actually INNOCENT and that’s a scary thing when you are talking about executing people but locking up people who are VIOLENT at least keeps them off the streets and mostly keeps them from hurting others.
Ox,
I am about 50 miles north of Miami, it has a way of sneaking up on you though. I just happen to get Miami based news. I need the weather here, there is NO way I could tolerate what EB does! God Bless her!!!
It really isn’t safe down here anymore.
We don’t have enough jails to lock up all the damn “spawns of the devil’ they call children down here. they are born out of wedlock, drug addicted, handed to the grandparents to raise or sent into the system to be raised and it is just HELL down here. You know that! Those that have a decent family are overendulgent and expect way too much in life!
What happened to the paradise of the days of “where the boy are” or the “beach boys”?
You were here in the 80’s imagine it now!!! OMG!!!
I can’t watch another kid try to mutilate another, there is no excuse for it!
Soimnotthecrazee1!
Ox,
PS. I know what has caused this to happen, I just can’t express my opinion on LF about it! I’m sure you know as well!
I think there are multiple factors that have caused problems in our society with violence—and there have always been psychopaths and always been violence—some AREAS seem to be worse than others and some times in our history that are worse than others, but coastal areas (and Florida qualifies there) and/or areas where there are great influxes of people from other areas so that there isn’t a real sense of community I think makes the violence go up.
A boom or bust situation along with lots of drug money and other illicit trade all centered in an area where there isn’t a great deal of sense of “community” or order fosters bad behavior.
The first day my P son was in school in Florida there was a shooting (murder) on campus—and we lived in a “nice neighborhood”—the small community college my other son went to, the book store manager was murdered in the store on campus!!! What would be a “safer” job than book store manager for a small community college where he knew every kid by name?
I’ll pass on any highly populated area (cities) and would rather be out here in the boondocks, at least if someone out here is out to get you, you know who it is and why, there’s not so much “random” violence just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or being the wrong color, or wearing a blue bandana in a red bandana area.
Ox,
Miami has always been bad for all I remember. I was never allowed to go south of where I live only north. Now here and north are getting saturated with Miami style life!!! How far north do I have to go to get away from this trash?
you got that right, the coastal areas due to the drugs and illegal immigrants.
This was/is still a communtity area, it’s just slipping up on us with the economy, housing burst, drugs and illegals. I know I need to leave… just haven’t had the hearrt. born here, stay here, proud here! You know my history… just glad to have it to come to when escaping the xspath. Unfortunately the boondocks doesn’t offer the ability to earn a decent paycheck. So being alone, I need some kind of close society to make money, have health insurance and a decent home. Where is the semi populated middle class paradise that was here in the 70’s?
Thanks for your reply!
Soimnotthecrazee1!
Come on over here to Southern California!
I’ll take overt bad behavior over sociopathy any day of the week. Example:
when I was 15 I ran away from home. But I was working 2 jobs, one was at an autoparts store in a “bad” part of town. My parents had said I couldn’t take the job because of the location. It was mostly a black area and I’m white. I thought they were racist, and it made me mad. They had sent me to private schools and sheltered me so much that I really had no contact with people of any other race, color or creed.
So 3 days into the job, I ran away from home and I mentioned it to the assistant manager, who was black. He said, “Oh, I have a girlfriend who needs a roomate, do you want to meet her?”. We arranged that he would pick me up after my shift ended at 9PM. He had left at 6PM but was back at 9PM. Drove me to an apartment complex, we went in and it turns out to be HIS apartment. His roomate was asleep in another room, he pulls me into his bedroom and pulls his pants down. He was already wearing a condom! The next few hours were spent struggling with him. He hit me in the face with a fist with rings on when I tried to scream, so I cut that out. He got some of my clothes off but I would squirm so he couldn’t rape me, as hard as he tried. In between wrestling matches he would just rest with his arms around me, holding me tight, so I couldn’t leave. He was drunk too BTW. About 1AM it occurred to me to use the pity ploy. (LOL) I cried and said, “I have nothing, no home, no parents, no possessions and you are trying to take away the last thing I have. MYSELF, Boohoohooo.” Well, he felt bad and he let me go. Point of the story is: he was not a spath. A spath would have locked on to that and it would have made it worse.
He was a horny rapist but not a spath, because he had a conscious, it just needed to be activated.
Thanks SC! Not pleased with it here anymore!