Comments on: Bigger Timesink than an MMORPG http://blog.torgodevil.com/archives/41 Crunky! This is a blog about an English teacher living in South Korea. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:49:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: kimminse http://blog.torgodevil.com/archives/41#comment-47 kimminse Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:14:34 +0000 http://www.torgodevil.com/?p=41#comment-47 I have a cousin who's like that, although the problem with her is a bit more serious since she's six. Children like these two have been babied too much by their parents and have not yet completely learned how to do things for themselves and how to listen to any authority figure. Most of them are now being labled as having Asperger syndrome or ADHD or a combination of both, now that those two conditions are becoming vogue in Korea. Although some may have either of the two conditions of one of a whole bunch of options, doctors are more likely to say that a child has ADHD because it gets the parents off of their backs and saves them the trouble of telling the parents that they're the problem. I fear that we'll soon have a generation of Koreans who will spend most of their lives doped up on Ritalin as a result of this. When will Koreans lose their herd-mentality and stop trying to place the blame for all their troubles on other people or uncontrollable diseases? I have a cousin who’s like that, although the problem with her is a bit more serious since she’s six. Children like these two have been babied too much by their parents and have not yet completely learned how to do things for themselves and how to listen to any authority figure. Most of them are now being labled as having Asperger syndrome or ADHD or a combination of both, now that those two conditions are becoming vogue in Korea. Although some may have either of the two conditions of one of a whole bunch of options, doctors are more likely to say that a child has ADHD because it gets the parents off of their backs and saves them the trouble of telling the parents that they’re the problem.
I fear that we’ll soon have a generation of Koreans who will spend most of their lives doped up on Ritalin as a result of this. When will Koreans lose their herd-mentality and stop trying to place the blame for all their troubles on other people or uncontrollable diseases?

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