007, I don't think you're entirely wrong. But I don't think it's just a few warped parents, either. I think this is the direction in which our society is moving. And that's terrifying!
You probably have wondered (if you've looked around other forums on this server and noticed, anyway) why some of us are
still talking about these stupid programs 10, 20 or even 30 years after the fact. I can't speak for anyone else, but my interest has to do w/ trying to understand how an industry as messed up as this one has found purchase in our culture(s).
I think it fits w/ a trend toward trusting the professionals over our own common sense and customs. And it's everywhere. Women used to give birth at home, with or w/o the help of a doctor. Now, we have doctors offering entirely optional c-sections; taking total charge of your new baby and the new mother even before the baby is born. We don't send our kids to school because we value education. We send them to school because it's illegal not too and, I suspect, a lot of people do it because they have NO idea what to do w/ kids. They and everyone they ever knew were raised by hired strangers from a very young age.
So when these strangers tell you your kid is disordered, most people don't even consider that the professional might be trippin'. They go ahead and drug the kid or send the kid to therapy or whatever they're advised to do. When that only makes matters worse, they move on to the next, more radical 'treatment'.
So when some joker comes along promising the cure for all that ails them, they just do what they've always done; ignore their gut and their own good sense and trust the "professionals".
May the fleas of one thousand llamas infest your armpits
--One ticked off sysadmin
