Because I knew a while ahead of time that I was going to be away for a few days, I wrote the Learning Disabilities entry before I left and future posted it so you would have something to read when you dropped by. So, I’ve had a few days to let what I said in the closing paragraph/confession of a rant to hit home.

Carrie K. commented on the closing sentence. Until I was writing that paragraph, it hadn’t really occurred to me that, in general, saying that some people thrive in an environment doesn’t make it a good environment. It certainly doesn’t say that the environment is necessarily good for either the people who do thrive in it or those who don’t. There are people who thrive in a bureaucracy. But, the ones who do, are not the people who are getting things done. They are the ones that waste everyone else’s time. Some people thrive in jails. Some people thrive hopped up on drugs.

running2ks added ‘I wonder how many “hyperactive” kids – aren’t?’ When I was growing up. I spent alot of the time outside and we were very active. So, I honestly don’t know if I were growing up today whether I would be labeled hyperactive or not. I think the larger question she has brought up is, how many of the problems kids are labeled with are created by the fact that they are made to sit cooped up in a room all day doing stuff that someone else has told them to do? While I can’t speak for all children, I have yet to see an active/energetic child who upon finding something that interested them did not settle into an activity level which fit the interest. Were they more attracted to things that involved activity? Sure. Does that mean there is something wrong with them? I don’t think so.