Rod Liddle dismisses dyslexia/ADHD/Coeliacs/ME/asthama etc. etc. as middle-class affectations

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Has anybody seen this very odd article by Liddle, where he essentially dismisses all the above as "character flaw[s], and one which could be stamped out given the necessary willpower from the parents" and "crutch upon which middle-class parents support themselves" rather than accept their kids are thick or just generally crap.

Very, very odd. I read through the whole thing believing it was a piss-take, but no, he seems to really believe it.

How was this bloke ever an editor of Today.....and how can he be seen as a serious journalist?

Quite Keema! my ds has ASD and we're just going through the process for ADHD. I'm very middle class and shop at aldi waitrose all the time. He's 15 now. It's taking ages for him to get an ADHD dx....probably because we're so middle class.

Isn't Katie Hopkins with a dick just Katie Hopkins?

Rod Liddle needs some good parenting himself. Lets all ignore his attention seeking nonsense. Until he can play nicely we just won't be speaking to him.

I wouldn't call myself middle class and between my children and my brother's we cover most of that list. My cousin is coeliac so she finishes our list up.

He should go and do a shift in a paeds A&E and see what asthma really does to a child. I saw my 2 year old push a heart attack because she was working so hard to breathe, that time took us three days of nebs one after the other to bring her out of it and a week of blue inhalers pumped into her every few hours to wean her off. Or a cold that leaves my son fighting for life, we've been told we can expect decisions over ventilation every time he gets a cold.

My cousin had coeliac disease before it was heard of, at 18 months she looked like a child from an Ethiopian news report. My mum visited them one day and rushed her and my aunt to hospital, they said she was hours from death.

What a horrible, horrible article. Even if it is "tongue in cheek" it is indicative of the prejudiced and spiteful attitude of a truly unpleasant person. I would like to invite Mr Liddle to spend the day at my school, working alongside the students who struggle, strive and achieve every day in the face of these supposedly "imaginary" conditions.

I mean it Rod, please come and spend the day with the children you have mocked so "amusingly". Come and meet the adults and families who work so hard to support them too. Because, with support, these conditions cannot be cured, but they can be ameliorated, and the children who have them can achieve. Sadly, for you, it appears that no amount of exclusive education can alleviate ignorance.

I think we all know who Mr Wet Wipes is - it's Mr Liddle who allegedly slept with his lover on his honeymoon and who whilst pregnant he then apparently beat up and now writes sexist columns including every weekend for the Times for money to make sexist male readers laugh. He is middle aged over weight and with a second wife young enough to be his daughter. Just the sort of chap we'd all be drooling over - not....

Forago thanks very much for reply - I will reply properly when my brain is working.
As for current thinking on ME, I linked upthread to this London conference, and there has just been one in America so those give some idea of where things are going at present. Also a Norwegian drug trial had very good results.

This is rubbish, though it is concerning the amount of resources that Pharmaceutical companies feeding the American medicating hysteria some states believe that 20% of kids have ADHD!??