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ADHD Awareness Week in the Lower Mainland
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
Alison Bailey Email news tips to alison.bailey@corusent.com
10/14/2012

ADHD Awareness Week has kicked off across Metro Vancouver.

Pete Quily leads the non-profit Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group.

His group is putting on activities throughout this week in eight Metro Vancouver cities.

It started Sunday with an information booth at Vancouver's Roundhouse Community Centre.

"We have twenty six libraries in eight cities: Vancouver, Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby, Coquitlam, North Vancouver, Maple Ridge, and Aldergrove, displaying ADHD books and posters."

Quily says there's lots of stigma about the behavioral disorder, and he wants to dispel any myths people may have.

He says the United States has had ADHD awareness day or week for a number of years.

Vancouver City Council declared ADHD awareness week last year and Quily says council will be declaring it again this week.


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  1. AnneH_4 posted on 10/15/2012 12:08 AM
    I am not sure whether anyone has heard a new theory about this 'disease' but here goes

    It has come from some health care professionals out of the US that Mothers who go on these fat free etc diets deprive the growing baby of many nutrients.

    Babies need certain foods to grow in a healthy manner so if Mom's to be would go on the 50's diet perhaps there would be less ADHD. it is worth a try after all I do not recall kids my age back then suffering from this problem.
    1. Jeff C posted on 10/15/2012 07:30 AM
      @AnneH_4 In the 50's they used to put children with Autism and Down's Syndrome in institutions that were essentially storage lockers. Dyslexia meant you were stupid and ADHD kids were hyperactive or the result of bad parenting.

      Diets back then were anything but fat free. Fried Chicken didn't burst onto the scene in the 80's. So I wonder at the credentials of these "Health Care Professionals" and their theories.

      I think that these problems exixted back then they just weren't being dealt with in a positive manor.
  2. HJDH posted on 10/15/2012 08:12 AM
    Imagine ten televisions on at the same time tuned to different programs. Which do you take in, which do you filter out. ADHD children are unable to direct their focus - hence the learning disability. These children loose self esteem and become the class clowns. They disrupt the learning environment for others.

    What happens to these children when they become adults?
    1. tomf_7759 posted on 10/15/2012 11:18 AM
      @HJDH Well...here are some adults with ADHD !!!

      Ansel Adams — Photographer
      Ann Bancroft —Actress
      Alexander Graham Bell — Telephone Inventor
      Harry Andersen — Actor
      Hans Christian Anderson — Author
      Beethoven — Composer
      Harry Belafonte —Actor, Vocalist
      Col. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington —WWII Flying Ace (Black Sheep Squadron Leader)
      Terry Bradshaw —Football Quarterback
      George Burns — Actor
      Sir Richard Francis Burton — Explorer, Linguist, Scholar, Writer
      Admiral Richard Byrd — Aviator (Was retired from the navy as, "Unfit for service")
      Thomas Carlyle — Scottish historian, critic, and sociological writer
      Andrew Carnegie - American Industialist
      Jim Carrey — American Comedian
      Lewis Carroll — Author (Alice in Wonderland)
      Prince Charles — Future King of England?
      Cher — Actress/Singer
      Agatha Christie — Author
      Sir Winston Churchill — English Statesman (Failed the sixth grade)
      Bill Cosby — American Actor, Comedian
      Tom Cruise — Actor, Couch Jumper
      Harvey Cushing M.D. — Greatest Neurosurgeon of the 20th Century
      Salvador Dali —Spanish Surrealist Artist
      Leonardo da Vinci — Italian Inventor, Artist
      John Denver — American Musician
      Walt Disney — American Cartoonist, Film Producer, Theme Park Innovator (A newspaper editor fired him because he had "No good ideas".)
      Kirk Douglas — American Actor
      Thomas Edison — Inventor (His teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything)
      Albert Einstein — Physicist (Einstein was four years old before he could speak,and seven before he could read)
      Dwight D. Eisenhower — U. S. President, Military General
      Michael Faraday — British Physicist, Chemist
      F. Scott Fitzgerald — Author
      Malcolm Forbes —Forbes Magazine Founder & Publisher
      Henry Ford — Automobile Innovator, invented the Production Line
      Benjamin Franklin —American Colonial Politician, Elder Statesman, Inventor
      Galileo (Galilei) — Italian Mathematician, Astronomer
      Danny Glover — American Actor
      Tracey Gold — American Actress
      Whoopi Goldberg — Comedienne, Actress
      Georg Frideric Handel —German Composer
      Valerie Hardin — Gothic Poet, Artist, Children's Author
      Mariette Hartley — Actress
      William Randolph Hearst — Newspaper Magnate
      Ernest Hemingway — Author
      Mariel Hemingway — Actress
      Milton Hershey — Hershey's Chocolate Magnate, American Philanthropist
      Dustin Hoffman — Actor
      Bruce Jenner — Olympic Athlete
      Luci Baines Johnson - Daughter of USA President Lyndon B. Johnson
      "Magic" Johnson — American Basketball Player, Film Personality, Business Man
      Samuel Johnson — Author
      Michael Jordan — American Basketball Player
      John F. Kennedy — U. S. President
      Robert F. Kennedy — U.S. Attorney General, Brother of JFK
      Jason Kidd — Professional Basketball Player
      John Lennon —Musician
      Frederick Carlton (Carl) Lewis —American Olympic Athelete.
      Meriwether Lewis (Lewis & Clark) — Explorer
      Abraham Lincoln —U.S. President during American Civil War (Entered The Black Hawk War as a Captain and came out a Private)
      Greg Louganis — Olympic Athelete (Diving)
      James Clerk Maxwell — British Physicist
      Steve McQueen — American Actor
      Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — German Child Prodigy Composer, Violinist, Pianist
      Napoleon Bonaparte —Emperor of France
      Nasser (Gamal Abdel-Nasser) Egyptian Leader
      Sir Issac Newton - English Scientist, Mathematician (Did poorly in grade school)
      Nostradamus —Physician, Prophet
      Ozzy Osbourne —English Rock Musician, said he was ADHD on TV
      Louis Pasteur — Scientist, developed "Pasturization" (Rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College)
      General George Patton — American Military
      Pablo Picasso — Spanish Cubist Artist
      Edgar Allan Poe — English Author, Poet, Master of the Macabre
      Rachmaninov — Russian Composer
      Eddie Rickenbacker — WWI Flying Ace
      John D. Rockefeller —Founder, Standard Oil Company
      Nelson Rockefeller — U.S. Vice President
      August Rodin — Artist, Sculptor
      Anna Eleanor Roosevelt — American First Lady
      Pete Rose —American Baseball Player
      Babe Ruth — American Baseball Player
      Nolan Ryan — American Baseball Player
      Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat — Egyptian President, Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1976
      George C. Scott — American Actor
      George Bernard Shaw —Author
      Will Smith — American Actor, Rapper, Entertainer
      Tom Smothers — Actor, Singer, Entertainer
      Socrates — Greek Philosopher
      Suzanne Somers — Actress, Pinup Girl
      Steven Spielberg — American Filmmaker
      Sylvester Stallone — American Actor
      Jackie Stewart — Car Racing, Grand Prix Hall of Famer
      James Stewart — American Actor
      Henry David Thoreau —Author, Poet
      (Lev Nikolayevich) Leo Tolstoy — Russian Author (Flunked out of college)
      Alberto Tomba — Alpine Ski Champion
      Vincent van Gogh — Dutch Artist who settled in France, Impressionism
      Russell Varian — Inventor
      Jules Verne — Author (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
      Werner von Braun — German Rocket Scientist (Flunked 9th grade algebra)
      Lindsay Wagner — American Actress (Bionic Woman), Spokesperson
      Gen. William C. Westmoreland — Military (Vietnam Era)
      Robin Williams — Prolific American Comedian, Actor,
      Woodrow Wilson — U. S. President
      Henry Winkler —American Actor (Fonzie)
      Stevie Wonder — American Musician
      F. W. Woolworth — Department Store Innovator (While working in a dry goods store at 21, his employers wouldn't let him wait on a customer because he "Didn't have enough sense.")
      Frank Lloyd Wright — American Architect
      Orville Wright —Airplane Developer
      Wilber Wright — Airplane Developer
      William Wrigley, Jr. — Chewing Gum Maker
      William Butler Yeats — Irish Author
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