The reason the experts know that there is a difference in the brain "wiring" of people with learning disabilities and ADD as compared to other people, is because they've done brain scans and they can SEE that the brains of people with learning disabilities and ADD work differently than the brains of people who don't.

This is what makes them different from people who have other kinds of problems.

To people who have had learning disabilities and ADD their whole lives without knowing it, it is extremely liberating to have a name to put on their problem. Accepting that one has a learning disability that isn't going to go away is hardly shutting the mind to only one alternative forever. It is the first step in finding a way to cope with the problem instead of beating one's head against it one's whole life.

And I didn't tell my son that there is nothing to be done. I told him that there are good reasons why he has the problems he does, and he shouldn't ever let anyone make him feel ashamed of the way he is. And I taught him to not ever be afraid to get help if he needs it, and I taught him to never give up on himself. My son has been the way he is since birth. Teaching him how to live a good life despite his differences is hardly the same thing as shutting my mind to all but one alternative forever.

What I object to the most strenuously is when the poster who believes that learning disabilities can be gotten rid of blames a parent who is doing a damned good job of raising their kids for their kids learning disabilities. Blaming the parents of people with learning disabilities is no more enlightened (and is every bit as ignorant) as hiding people with visible physical disabilities away in an attic where no one can see them. It's just as archaic, just as ignorant, and just as ugly.