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People should learn to laugh at themselves. Even people with ADHD.

Seriously people should not be that offended by that. If they're acting overly hyper and whatnot, they can't expect people not to wonder, "WTF?". I don't really care if people say or think I have ADD\ADHD, I know I spaz out sometimes.

Well, depends if it's good-natured humour or if whoever's making the comment actually has intentions in hurting the person's feelings...

But like I just said, if it's good-natured humour, they just need to chill and learn to laugh at themselves like Cat said.

But sometimes, the excuse isn't even true. Sometimes they use it as an excuse to act out and basically make an arse of themselves. You can never know on the internet...People lie.

I see both points.

Many members of the site take words exchanged here seriously in the utmost.

In any case, it is in my opinion that it is wrong to tease/make fun of someone with a disorder they have no power over. By the same token, those who use the disorders (Aspergers, ADHD, ADD, OCD, Bi-Polar) as an excuse have no justification to do so. Especially if they do not have said disorder.

As Emily said: People lie. But By the same token, there are those who are completely honest - and those who are completely honest are the ones getting hurt.

On the internet, you must be careful of what you say. Those of us who are adults and moderators must be doubly so, do to our age and relative power. We are role models to everyone else, and saying something insulting to someone could actually cause someone to actually commit suicide. Case in point - the girl on Myspace who committed suicide after being insulted.

Generally speaking, put-downs period should be avoided. They cause more trouble than what they are worth.

As with all cases of rule-breakage, do not hesitate to notify a mod. We cannot be everywhere at once, as often as we try to be, and thus we do not see everything that happens.

I have one such condition mentioned. Is it an excuse to act that way? Unless it's a severe case, not really IMO. Yeah, there's some parts we can't help, but personally I suck it up |D I don't mind, as long as it's not like intentionally offensive.

i have a friend with ADD and another with the other problem.. to me they're my good m8s and all and i know they have problems but it doesn't stop me... they told me all about the people that teased them in the past i think it's pretty cruel and reall unfair and i'm sure if you had a mental or physical problem i'm sure you wouldn't want to be teased yourself now would you ?! (thats what i thought) ... but here now in England it's more like you like you stand up for your friends and always have eachothers back it's insane ... aaanyways well if you do have or have a friend.. stand up for them or say something to them.. it would be nice