Boys With ADD Need More Discipline For "Paddleable" Offenses, Wrote Perry In 2008 Book
(Politico)
September 21, 2011
AUSTIN, TEXAS– [Excerpt provided by http:/www.inclusiondaily.com] Between his positions on global warming and the HPV vaccine, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's views on science have been a central focus of his presidential campaign so far.
They were also on display in his 2008 book, "On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For." Though the book is ostensibly about Perry's love for the Boy Scouts and the organization's battle with the ACLU, peppered throughout his idealized picture of rural youth are several brushes at science, including his own self-diagnosis of his own childhood troubles and defense of spanking.
"Some young boys — especially those with severe Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), as I must have had as a boy — have never focused on something for more than a few minutes until they tried to build their first fire on a camp-out or learned to tie a bowline knot with a double half-hitch knot on the opposite end of a thirty-foot rope," Perry wrote.
Later in the book, Perry comes back to the topic, suggesting that the contemporary culture has not so much made scientific advances in identifying illnesses, but rather is making excuses for problems that would have been dealt with more severely in the past.
"We have a drug for every problem and a diagnosis for every psychosis," he wrote. "We don't have children with 'ants in their pants'; we have children with 'attention deficit disorder.' That is not to minimalize such conditions. Lord knows, whether you call it a disorder or a "paddleable offense," I had it as a kid.
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In first book, Rick Perry self-diagnosed ADD
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