You are the exception... when it comes to children most of the ADHD diagnosed is not real ... someone with ADHD/ADD will get reversed reactions to drugs ,, alcohol for them is a stimulant and speed is a downer, for them speed has a calming effect and allows more focused thought... you are an adult and probably self diagnosed or had a formative hand in the design of your treatment, you have the power to say yes or no... for kids it’s basically teachers pushing speed on kids to burn them out... if teachers were given the power to prescribe (essentially what they do now) back in the 1970’s Rorer would have rebranded Qualludes with a cutesy name and they would be prescribed to this day.
Speed kills...
Certainly didn’t “self-diagnose”. Did it through medical professionals. As to teachers being able to prescribe it, my wife, brother and father are/were all public school teachers and I’ve never heard them talk about how they or anyone in their school pushed “speed” on kids to burn them out. If anything they, and most of their colleagues I’ve been around have said that ADD/ADHD is overdiagnosed.