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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT dtnspeed.net>]

<<Well, Marie, they aren't going to worry about adults who have problems
"now," therr are too many out there that might cry fowl.  Instead, they are
going to start them young and keep them medicated through old age.>>

That scenario might happen if people who are insane managed to manifest
symptoms early on. They don't. Many go along for years acting perfectly
normal -- in fact, being normal. Later in life, something triggers their
latent propensity and they begin to hear voices or want to buy condominiums
or whatever. So long as they are not a threat to themselves or others, they
can just soldier on until they are dead broke. It would be ever so much
better all around if a competent person could be assigned guardianship. It
would save the state money and the relatives grief.

The way things are now, I don't see anyone out there identifying children as
being insane -- ADHD, maybe, but that's still not insane.

Marie