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I had a child “diagnosed” with ADHD several years ago. The immediate reaction of the people involved was to prescribe drugs.
We refused.
Absolutely under no circumstances were we going to let our pre-pubescent child take amphetamines which is what these ADHD drugs are.
More generally, I found the diagnosis process shoddy, the availability of resources for my child (tutors, executive function help etc) to be scattered and expensive and the desire of the school to “solve” the problem lazy and reductive (sit alone, go take tests in a separate place, have more time on assignments and feel isolated from peers).
It can’t be the case that so many of our kids have ADHD and are then put through this.
I find it more plausible that economic incentives drove an entire industry to spring up around an FDA approved drug that, looking back, mostly doesn’t work. People make money diagnosing it, tutoring around it, coaching around it, etc etc
This has done decades of damage to kids.
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