My next to the oldest grandson was very energetic and needed to burn that energy off like it was when I was a child. Instead of telling him to go outside like I was told to burn that energy off he was prescribed Ridalin. My Son and Daughter-n-Law complained of him being ADHD. All he wanted was some attention and they thought their video games were more important. As he grew he would come and visit and I would take it upon myself to refuse to give him that medicine. The reason was not to spite my children it was because we had picked the grandkids up one day and Caleb seemed far off somewhere else. He sat right beside me and I asked him if he felt alright. He quoted "it's just the medicine pawpaw". That night when he went to bed I did not give him his dose as my children had said to. The next morning he came out of his room smiling and I knew my grandson had all his faculty's to him. Some say I was wrong for not giving him the Ridalin some say I was right. All I know is this child has grown up and is fixing to graduate High School and will attend College in the fall. His attitude toward what is happening in the school system is outstanding. A young John Galt in the making and not with Ridalin. Maybe some drugs are good and needed, but to control a child because he wants just a little attention. If that were the case most of us would have been dope addicts by the age of 13.

Sure, just sign on the dotted line of the serf contract.

Few things suck more than being a kid stuck in a class that is so busy trying to bring up the bottom that it cannot keep up with you. I spent a lot of time trying to find ways to keep myself entertained. Of course in that situation there is not much to entertain yourself with, so eventually you start using your "peers" as a source of entertainment. I was however not in a world where kids were advanced to make things better. in grade-school they would move anyone who crossed a particular line to "special ed" That was more of a gulag and hell on earth. So, I became very good at manipulating my environment and avoiding any labels. I was in 5th grade when I saw something that changed my life forever. It was a couple of weeks before my type-1 diagnosis. So, I was walking around with crazy uncontrolled high blood sugar. That resulted in very frequent trips to the bathroom. Those trips took me past the hallway to the special ed wing. During one of those trips I saw a teacher and teaching assistant beating the tar out of a third grade kid. It was then that I realized that I could no longer believe that the adults around me were looking out for my best interests, and I would have to handle that myself.

That's what some of the elite are about: eliminating the competition. They bribe government to hand them a cartel in business but it isn't enough; they have to crush any intellect with any chance of competing with them. It's a stealth feudal system.

Yes, that's because many ADHD drugs are phrama's versions of amphetamines. I've gotten rave reviews from my healthy/normal peers who've tried Adderral.

From Comfortably Numb to Blissfully dumb. In the USSR, vodka was the drug choice to ruin the young. Here in the USA, nothing better than a new chemical concoction in the form of a pill.

(music) One pill makes you nauseous and one pill makes you small....and the white knight is talking backwards......feed your head.

This is entirely criminal. ADHD is bogus. How in the world did teachers manage hyperactive children before the invention of the term ADHD and the billions of dollars made on DRUGS to treat it. It should be noted that the US rank highest when it comes to the use of ADHD drugs. I'll see if I can find my sources.

and anti-depressants. ;(

Everyone I knew in college managed on coffee or nothing. (The coffee was usually due to late night studying and lack of sleep therefrom.)
I guess those students will need ADHD drugs when they are in the workplace in order to perform, too.

I also recently read an article that cited 25% of college students take ADHD drugs to help them study for higher test grades.