What I find interesting is that now we’re beginning to see more of the “un-wealthy” (i.e., not quite middle class, not quite rich; just covered by health insurance) achieve these diagnoses. Whether or not a child in a single-parent household is diagnosed with “oppositional defiant disorder” likely becomes a question of where that single parent works. While their peers with similar traits are pushed into a classroom in the basement.
> What is normal for the poor to carry is a diagnoses and special treatment for those who can afford it.
With this I’ll defer to our colleague in this thread, jt2190, with two modifications of my own:
> We all have degrees of “diagnosable” traits, it’s only when those traits become problematic [to our position in society] do we [become compelled] to seek help.