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This is by no means a new condition. A German scientist, Heinrick
Hoffmen described the condition in the 1880s. Sir George Still wrote
a paper in 1902 about difficult children resistant to normal discipline
(what we now know as the condition AD/HD), he wrote,
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“There is the likelihood, nay almost
the certainty, that
children with the more profound and permanent
disorders of moral control will, if not protected from
themselves, sooner or later bring public disgrace
upon themselves and the families to which they belong,
and possibly to be punished as criminals in spite of the
evidence that their acts are the outcome of a mental state
just as marked as the more generally recognised imbecility
or insanity” GF Still 1902 |
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