![]() ![]() ![]() I wanted to write a novel using this premise that started off seeming like the former, but as you read, reveals itself to be closer to the latter. The idea of a state that pays parents to drug children struck me as a something out of science fiction rather than a plausible political reality. The fact that parents are incentivised into giving powerful ADHD drugs to their children by the benefits system also struck me as rather scandalous. Children with this psychological make-up are likely to be branded as failures and (under the banner of ADHD) unjustly labelled as somehow mentally defective. Many adults know they aren’t cut out for office work, and find productive and successful careers in practical, physical work. ![]() We tell ourselves that we are increasingly tolerant as a society, but the burgeoning growth of ADHD suggests to me that we are in fact becoming more rigid, and less tolerant of those people who have difficulty spending childhood and adolescence sitting behind a desk. ![]()
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