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 As October blends into November, this issue of ADDvance
finally reaches you. Its managing editor, here to serve, can only
say that those who serve are sometimes not well served. Computers,
like dogs, potted plants and assorted other delights including automobiles
and hot running water, are wonderful inventions, useful and clever
and they make possible all manner of things not possible in their
absence.
They also turn on you! One simply may not use a computer as one
uses a car; fill it up with Premium gasoline, keep it in oil and
regular tune-ups, and when you turn the key, it goes. Some of us
do not want to know what’s under the hood. And when the day
arrives that we learn, to our dismay, that we must, beware the day
that what’s under the hood of the computer becomes faintly
interesting.
For it is true that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Training
one’s own rose bushes to climb, or one’s own dog to
fetch, is one thing. But to tinker with the innards of one’s
own computer’s Internet settings is Not a Good Idea. You are
being spared the details.
On to the cornucopia of the fall. We have an introduction waiting
to happen between a mentor and her mentee; new research on Concerta
for girls; the gripping account of almost seven decades of life
with AD/HD and then, a diagnosis; the intricate work of another
artist; a research report on the effects of friendship on the stress
of living with AD/HD; and more.
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