With jittery legs and uncontrollable movements, the child with the wandering eyes cannot sit still and stay focused because he suffers from ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyper Disorder). ADHD is the most commonly diagnosed mental disorder among children and teens, but more often than now the term is being used to describe hyper children with no real symptoms. The over diagnosis of ADHD in recent times has undermined the definition of the disease and robbed it of its true meaning. The number of ADHD cases has increased significantly in recent years. The explosion of the ADHD diagnosis during the past 20 years have skyrocketed from only 3-5 percent of kids to 15 percent (Frances). You cannot have a two sentence paragraph like this. You have given research. Now connect it with your argument. What do you want the reader to take away? This is the most important part! With the advances in technology today, its almost uncommon to see a child without some form of technology in their hands at all times. Children are given phones and tablets to keep them distracted, but the time being spent on them causes misbehavior when they are taken away. Parents are diagnosing their kids with ADHD when really its just an excuse for their misbehaving children. People can argue that …show more content…
Kids are tested just by if they squirm and cannot sit still. Any parent can take his or her child to get a prescription for medicine used to treat ADHD. The problem here is that parents are diagnosing their children themselves and getting unnecessary medicines for their kids. The method of diagnosis is flawed because it is turning these kids into zombies with no energy when they did not need it in the first place. The big number of increased cases has turned the term ADHD into a joke nowadays. Some may argue that doctors cannot make mistakes and are always correct, but there is no true way of diagnosing a child but it be judged by squirming which most children