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this is a very serious disorder this is not some trivial little

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fly by night disorder

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and also emphasize something that i don’t think it’s emphasized enough

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especially by other advocates

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eighty-eight years no gift

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there is no evidence in any research fund any of hundreds of measures that we

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have taken that show the dvd predisposes us to anything positive

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in human life now let’s be clear

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eighty excuse but a small steps of the hundreds of psychological abilities that

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people will have

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and many people may be gifted and talented in various aspects of these

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other

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truman abilities

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but never attribute that gifted nis

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or that success to the a_t_t_ itself there is a profound tendency in the u_s_

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right now for advocates

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to roll everything about the patient

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under the tent of their immediate scheme to use it to account for everything

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so that michael phelps one eight gold medal olympics because he was in the

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extreme

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and the owner of jet blue is a successful entrepreneur

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when an airline because it was a dat

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and howie mandell and deal or no deal is a successful comic turn

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game show host

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because it has a p_h_d_ anti pennington on extreme home makeover

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is very successful at destroying a rebuilding houses

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four other charitable purposes

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because as a teaching none of this is true at all

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these people are successful because they have other attributes in which they are

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gifted

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but in no way does eighty h_d_ predisposed to any of the things that i

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have mentioned if so we would have seen it

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so i’d want people to understand that while people may be gifted and talented

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and successful

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inspite of their eighty peachtree

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it is not because

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varity p_h_d_

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the a_t_t_ itself they in fact make you less effective than what other people

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who has a equally talented areas in those human abilities

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nobody’s done that comparison

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but uh… it’s going to be very hard for society to take you all seriously

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if you continue to trumpet this disorder as a gift

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there is no way that we can go to ottawa and walk the halls of parliament

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arguing for accommodations

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entitlements

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funding the radiation medications on the one hand

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while rob roch hearing eighty eight fifty

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as this wonderful gift ideas that we have and you don’t they are going to set

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a call to each other

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and it doesn’t work

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and its allies

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so let’s not deceiving people about this this is a real disorder is a very

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serious disorder

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but it doesn’t mean you may not be talented and many other areas of life

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and that you can use those areas of talent to compensate

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for the disadvantages that any dhtml be producing

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but success is not attributable to a_t_t_ nodding any of the hundreds of

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studies have been done to date

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so i’m asking for clarification on this issue

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not saying that people can succeed with this disorder but it will be there in

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the eighties across that