That will teach people who seek a diagnosis of ADHD in the hope that it will bring them various advantages in life. Merlin Entertainments, which runs Alton Towers, has announced that in future it will no longer allow the condition to be used as an excuse to jump its queues. If you want a shortcut, a card saying that you suffer ‘difficulty with crowds’ will no longer cut the mustard with the theme park’s security people. You will have to show that you have a physical condition such as ‘difficulty standing’ and ‘urgent toilet needs’ instead.

Cue the usual outrage whenever someone with disability, or claiming to have one, feels aggrieved. ‘Why shouldn’t my autistic son jump the queue at Alton Towers,’ cries a mother in the Independent. I hate to be the little boy who pointed out that the emperor was in the nuddy, but there is something just a little........

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