"What color were those eels, Henry my boy? / What color were those eels, my pride and joy?"

[larryhammer]

"Greeeeen and yeller / greeeeen and yeller / Mother be quick I've got to be sick and lay me down to die"

I've lost the attribution, and it's only two related studies, but it's still suggestive enough to pass along: Kindergartners who just made the age cut-off for enrolling, and so are younger than the average for their class, are diagnosed as ADHD at a higher rate than those who just missed the cut-off and so are the oldest kids in the next class, even though they are just days apart in age. In other words, being young is being mistaken for a clinical condition.

Are we surprised?

---L.

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Well, yeah. Except, of course, our nephew.

---L.

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Hehe.