February 9, 2010
Published: 28 Oct 09 16:27 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/22934/20091028/
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A school principal from southern Sweden has infuriated health workers and disabilities rights advocates after claiming in a newspaper article that dyslexia and anorexia are made-up diseases.
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"Dyslexia does not exist . He is just a slow learner". It took 3 years of fighting her to get him confirmed as being dyslexic. These people should engage their brain before opening their big mouths, and consider the long term damage that their fatuous statements can cause
Must be my dyslexia. (I have mild dyslexia).
Perhaps you'd like to read a made up account of living with a made up illness. With anorexia on the rise amongst young people, these comments are totally irresponsible.
Dyslexia is real and a pain in the butt. As an adult, mine doesn't trouble me so much. I can use a computer to type, (and spell check) and I can read, albeit slower than most.
I have to say, I wonder at this chap's suitability for a position in educating our young people.
I say again - Rubbish!
Eating disorder, drinking disorder and "a lot" of all these disorders fall under one heading "lack of self-control".
We often find it easy to hide behind an excuse rather than face our own devils.
Excuse is the wrong word -
Ouy Beet em to ti.
What they don't understand is that it is useful to group patients with similar conditions so as to identify treatment options.
For example someone with social phobia responds to different treatments than somebody with aspergers. If you don't make the distinction then you get the treatment wrong.
If you don't identify somebody as having dyslexia then you might just say they are stupid which is not really useful.
There is a legitimate argument that many who receive a dyslexia diagnosis should be just be regarded as occupying a normal part of the human ability spectrum, without being given a label, Indeed, many of the "treatments" for dyslexia are those given to poor readers. However, being called "dyslexic" seems to be preferable for many than being called a poor reader.
In the UK record numbers of people are being diagnosed as dyslexic. Many critics allege that they aren't naturally good readers and the teaching they received when they started school was rubbish. There is probably something in this.
Mine was caused by hormone imbalance post partum, along with post partum depression. My metabolism accelerated and though I ate like a pig, continued to loose weight. It took two years of "fattening" treatment to get up from my 38 kilograms to a more normal 49.
A slowing down in my metabolism at middle age has allowed me to gain a further 3 kg, which took 10 years to accomplish.
Anyone who calls my "eating disorder" an excuse, in my opinion is a moron.
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You cannot help people if you do not believe they need help!
Another example: On my daughter's first day of Montessori school, the teacher 'decided' that she not only was 'severely' ADHD, but she had 'seriously dangerous anger management issues' as well..she was FOUR. But despite the assurances of our pediatrican and some rather rigourous testing that proved that not only was my daughter even more gifted than we'd realised, with no 'issues,' anger or ADHD or otherwise, the teacher stood by her 'expert opinion'...she'd had a son with ADHD and it apparenty qualified her to diagnose everyone else's child. When she refused to accept that my daughter was perfectly normal and continued to treat her as though she had a learning disorder, we removed her before any more damage could be done, but my daughter still remembers the stigma attached to being treated like there was 'something wrong' with her.
The moral? Only those QUALIFED to diagnose these illnesses and disorders should be the ones to do so. And I'm completely convinced that THIS man is not.