Do You Need Bangs and Cardigans if You Have D H D?

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i hear your frustrated wails, and i join you in that chorus of vindication and concern. I'm wondering, when did we start to recognize it from just a behavior problem in quots of kids to what it is recognized as to day? Yeh? Well, we can go back nearly 250 years. People don't realize it, but i'm sitting here with an actual copy of the book, dated 17 70 in germany,. This is the first medical text book ever written in g German. It has a chapter called disorders of attention, if i don't believe that, and in it, the author, melker weiker, describes what to day, we

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