Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 01:41:19 GMT From: Laura M. Parkinson Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan Subject: Re: TAN: The ADD "myth" [was Re: WoT conciseness/editing (was SV: Wheel Of Time)] Kenneth G. Cavness rhapsodized in blue: >Foolishly giving up the right to remain silent, >Maggie wrote... >[snip: Side effects of Ritalin] > >> he was never hungry while medicated. > >Get me somma dat! > >> when there are people around who aren't always there. All kids get >> excited about company, he just gets a bit more so. > >Let's not underrate the level to which he becomes excited. Ernie gets >excited, too, but Ernie is bearable. Alex becomes a whirling dervish >that only stops spinning long enough to tell you about Pikachu before >spinning away again. ... Well of course. That's his secret Mutant Power. Just ask him. -- -'-,-'-<<0 Trickster 0>>-'-,-'- lparkinson@mindspring.com http://lparkinson.home.mindspring.com "Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." -Richard Adams, Watership Down