What I am saying is that people's learning disabilities should never be blamed on the parents. There may come a day when a cure for them is found, but it has not been found yet.

Yes, learning disabilities and ADD can be remediated, but remediation is not a cure and doesn't make the learning disability go away. My son was BORN with ADHD. I know this because a lot of the manifestations of it that he exhibited were apparent almost from the day he was born. If kids get ADD from their environment, then it's not ADD. It's something else.

The only TV my son had access to most of his childhood was educational TV. We didn't have a TV for the first few years of his life, and when we did get one, we didn't have access to any commercial TV for most of the time when we did have one. Most of my time was spent interacting with my son because he required enormous amounts of mental stimulation or he would go bonkers (almost from the day he was born). But he was also very sensitive to any kind of sensory stimulation and would get overstimulated very easily, and would cry nonstop for about an hour every day (when he was an infant) while he released all of the pent up stimulation he had acumulated throughout the day.

I spent hours of every day reading to my son. Time that wasn't spent with me reading to him, he spent playing with friends. They played pretend, they made secret formulas in what they called the "formula kitchen" in the basement, they made secret mazes and forts in the corn field out back or in the bushes around the creek, or up in the trees that surrounded the house. One of my son's favorite toys was a rope he chose as a birthday present one year. It was just about 6' of thick green rope, but he and his friends could pretend that rope was all kinds of things in their imaginary play world.

ADD is NOT just a diagnostic label applied to certain kinds of behavior. I know because I have it. It is a way that a person feels and a way that a person experiences the world. And it's not the same as the way "normal" people feel and experience the world. I know this because I talk to people who don't have it, and they tell me they don't experience the kinds of things that people with ADD say they experience. People who focus only on the behavioral aspects of ADD don't have it and don't know what it's like to live with it.

Someone needs to get off their high horse and accept the fact that they don't know shit about ADD. I'm an expert on ADD because I have lived with it my whole life, and because I raised a child who has it.