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i think the biggest problem we have had as a group

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in convincing the general public about the seriousness of our childrens’

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disorder

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verses autism or schizophrenia

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or the other disorders

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is the very name itself is trivial

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immediately steve go to starbucks good god

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custom kathleen we got more series fish to fry you’re in psychiatry

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than the fact that you just can’t pay attention

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part of the reason that our disorder that the name of this disorder is so

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often pilloried in the media

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is because i think we must mean that

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this is a developmental disorder of self-regulation

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not of attention

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to refer to a_t_t_’s inattention is to refer to autism as hand flapping and

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speaking funny

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they are the most obvious symptoms

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of a failure to develop the ability to relate to others and special optics as

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humans

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and that is what what is it really is underneath

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the rest of it is just the most superficial set of symptoms

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so i would want my family to understand

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the pro funded

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of these deficits

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because inattention

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hardly captures

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what is going wrong

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in development

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i would want parents to understand something that the vast majority of the

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late population does not understand

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self control is not

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lauren

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it is not the result of your upbringing and how good your parents were this is

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one of the most profound insights

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from our research on dvd

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a_t_t_’s we will see a smart retainer or genetic disorder but then let’s pursue

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the implications if that is true and a_b_c_’s of self-regulation disorder

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than self control is largely narrow genetic in origin

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that has a

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philosophically perfect one conclusion

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the best majority of variation in the people sitting in this room in their

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ability to manage their behavior

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is not from how they were ratings

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it is a part of who they are it is a part of the ordinary dramatic gifts

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and that is very stunning indeed

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that our capacity for regulating ourselves

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is a narrow biological trait

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not some socially learned phenomena

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that you just happen to pick up

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from your parents