ADHD - the Truth Goes Down the Memory Hole

This article was published some years ago in the New English Review. I am reproducing it here in case it vanishes, as other articles by me seem to be doing 

 

 

 

I sometimes tremble to recall the absurd feelings of total safety that sustained and informed me through my childhood. I trusted everyone. I never suspected any evil intent. I thought all authority was benign, all physicians competent. I even believed the commercials on the TV. Bad events were far away in places which would never r...