Letters to the Editor
rupert_c
Published Letters: 1213 Editor's Choice: 12
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To the druggies
[Read the article: My daughter has ADD and we need more space!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Sure sure sure, ADD is real, it just only happens to American kids. The disorder is unheard of in most of the world. I guess us Americans are just genetically defective compared to the rest of the world.
Well, the drug pusher's marketeers will certainly try to take care of that problem by convincing the rest of the world that their children are defective as well.
Don't forget, if you are too sad, you are defective. If you are too happy, you are defective, If you are sometimes too sad and sometimes too happy, you are defective. If you are too thin, you are defective, if you are too fat, you are defective. If you talk too much, you are defective. If you don't talk enough, you are defective.
The only people who are not defective are psychopaths as they don't have any pills to sell for that disorder. Besides, that hits a little too close to home for those who prescribe the meds after they label someone as defective.
If you don't think you are defective, just see a doctor or psychiatrist and they can let you know just how defective you are.
"Just say no to drugs and don't forget to take your medication every day."
Hey druggies, medication for mood and mind equals drugs.
It isn't like antibiotics, chemotherapy, or insulin and equating it with those is equating the real and tangible with something that is neither.
But, if you are convinced that your child is defective and needs drugs, what are the odds that you are defective too? If you are convinced that your genetic material is defective and the neurochemistry is OFF, as in far less than one percent of the population, then take the drugs. How can you trust your judgement as you accept that you or you and your children are neurochemically defective?
I personally think that the normal range of human behaviors and moods is not a sign of defect. But if a doctor tells you that your kid or you is defective and you want to believe it, then how can you trust your judgement to act upon what you have heard from the doctor? After all, you are clearly not thinking straight because if your child is defective, you may well be defective too. Pretend to be sincere about that question when you put it to your doctor and see how fast he writes you a prescription.
Go ahead, take the drugs for the rest of your life and when they cause problems take more drugs to take care of those problems.
The real defect is ignorance and suckeritis. Don't worry about that none, just take some snake oil. Give it to your kids. Teach them to start each day with a pill, then two pills, then three pills, etc., etc..
If you have a chemical imblance, be sure to ask for a spinal tap just to be sure. I know, they can tell just by talking to you for three minutes but it is best to be sure.
I have my own problems, the last two Pepsis I drank were very unsatisfying - they changed the formula and now it isn't "high fructose corn sweetner and/or sugar, caramel coloring", it is "high fructose corn sweetner, caramel coloring, sugar" - now I have to start drinknig coffee so I can put the sugar in myself. You think you got problems? I hate coffee!
You can't trust anyone these days.
Please excuse me, having too much caffeine and not enough sugar has caused a chemical imbalance which will have to wait for a coffee shop to open up in the morning but at lest you don't have to see a doctor to get caffeine - YET!
/thudercrack and rising organ music
I'll have a white chocolate mocha with two packs of pure cane sugar please.
I'm feeling better already.
Go ahead, take all the amphetamines you want.
Good night, and sweet dreams.
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Why I don't like to be around cell phones and bluetooth devices
[Read the article: Why are Bluetooth headsets so lame?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I feel the warmth. I turn my head and there is someone on a cell phone.
If people want to cook their own brains, or pelvises, that is ok with me, but if I am on a bus, a subway car, or have people standing right next to me, it is not only annoying and rude, but it is cooking me as well.
I don't know why you people don't notice the heat. I notice the radiation from microwave ovens as well which is why I don't stand around them when they are cooking. I guess you are used to it or insensitive to it.
Maybe I should start drinking alcohol, taking prescription drugs, smoking tobacco, taking OTC medications or bashing my head into a wall so I won't notice. Until I resort to those measures, I am not only annoyed, I am irradiated.
I don't like walking under powerlines either - the sizzling, cracking and buzzing sounds make me uneasy. If it has enough juice to light up a flourescent light, I figure it has enough juice to light up my molecules.
People are getting stupid from all this, please leave me out of that.
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Keppy
[Read the article: My daughter has ADD and we need more space!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks!
That just proves that you are not defective.
You are OK by me.
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Ameria the mental
[Read the article: Taking off your bra for national security]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Paranoia and delusions are symptoms of a psychiatric disorder. Let them keep their jobs, just give them enough thorazine where they will be unable to talk to people or harrass them.
Probably should do the same for the executive and legislative branches.
News media too.
IF thorazine cost too much, just get some barrels of Flit and dip 'em.
Yeah, DIP 'EM!