to who thinks adhd is bs | ADHD Information

You are getting lots of feedback on your message as you must of expected.  You say you out grew your adhd and that is great but that doesn't make you an expert on the subject or actually give you the right to say that that it is bs.   You are showing your age and maturity with that statement.  You may had not needed meds but that doesn't mean all kids can go without meds.  I am by far an expert on the issue but know how hard it is to deal with a child that has adhd. I was  your age when I had my daughter and having been dealing with adhd for the last 14 years. I was dealing with it at first by myself, because her adhd father that was not treated as a child, had become bi polar and was into drugs.  I was told that a lot of children that are not treated tend to turn to drugs for an escape and as adults become bi polar. By your statements I am assuming you are not a parent yet, therefore you can not really  judge how a parent should handle their adhd child.  You say with love and discipline and that is all true but when you are a parent and you are watching your child grow up and see  how they have to struggling to focus, making it hard to keep up their grades and how teachers label them the "problem child".  Also how hard it is for your child to make friends let alone being so hyper and annoying they can't keep friends so they become isolated and depressed.  Watching this happen, watching your poor beautiful baby(because at any age your child is your baby) suffer all of this is more then a parent can take.  It pulls your heart and you want to be able to do anything to make it better for your child but you can't make their grades better and you can't make people be their friends so all you can do is look for a solutaion to try to help them and yes that might be to put them on medication.  People love to think that we parents put our children on meds to make it easier to deal with them but that is by far true.  Most children have a wide range of side effect and in most cases makes the child even harder to deal with at home.  The meds are more for the child to do well in school and have a normal healthy social life.  Us parents are the ones that have to suffer when the meds wear off but chose to do all of this so are children can be happy.  That is what makes us parents......

Back to TopLots of people, lots of parents have answered "thetruth" most
eloquently. The version of the "truth" from this 19-year-old reminds
me of a kid in college. A 17yo freshman began ranting in the
cafeteria one day that Picasso was not an artist and had no talent. I
couldn't let it go. We argued for about an hour, with him trying to
argue art and aesthetic, and me arguing that his opinion was
absolutely right - for him alone. It is just so hard as a teen to
understand that finding a "truth" for yourself doesn't actually mean it
is anyone else's truth.   Same with "thetruth". His truth is his. Fine,
but it is just for him alone.

I am really afraid that (completely outside the ADD issue) our society
has fostered an attitude that being rude, disrespectful, cheating,
lying, even breaking the law is somehow perfectly acceptable as long
as the perpetrator feels justified in his views. Which makes it even
harder as a person with ADD, and a parent of people with ADD to
explain and enforce those pesky rules about not lying, not saying
whatever comes to your head about someone even if it isn't nice. So
"thetruth" feels his cause is righteous, and that justifies abhorrent
behavior? We can't "catch" him, therefore it doesn't matter if he
performs a hit-and-run post? How sad. And how antithetical it is to
everything he claimed for himself.