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[Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD: Steve, this is terrific and to the point, I will share it with the father in Japan, Hideo, you are right, there is no need, once extracted from officialdom--government school, clinics to feel that the label is indelible, official, permanent, and to spend money on competing consultations (as ordered by the judge in your case lending further confusion), lawyers (most of whom do not understand the issue). Nestor went this route, many parents have, and were successful in that the system never came back to claim the child. Thanks, Fred.] SRK2000@aol.com wrote: Fred, I tried to select "reply all" to comment to the parent that wrote you as well as others on your list, but it would not let me for some reason, so I reply to you alone. My suggestion for the parent that wrote you inquiring about how to "unlabel" his son is to simply follow the path we went down. We "cured" him, as you know, using the same method that got him diagnosed to begin with -- by declaration!! They simply "declared" him ADD, we simply "declared" him NORMAL!! As to all the other concerns legal and otherwise, those problems can be avoided by doing what we did -- put the child in private school. Do not introduce the "ADD" into the picture when he enters the school, and he will thus be normal from that day forward. The email did not mention the age of the child, but as for concerns about the false diagnosis affecting the future, i.e. military, piloting, etc., this is only true if the child took medications past age twelve, AND if the fact that he/she did so is common knowledge. In my son's case, as you know, he was a tremendous success in private school, having been declared normal and free of the bogus diagnosis by us. He did not take any drug after age twelve, but nonetheless we have cleansed his past of any diagnosis, since the diagnosis was false to begin with. We have no intention of ever mentioning to anyone that he was "labeled". So, he is "unlabeled"!! I hope your writer can find the resources (their own, or scholarship) to get their child out of the trap as well. Regards, Steve Keene
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