Posted on 04/13/2025 12:56:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Please correct me if I am understanding you wrong.
At 3 years it wasn’t that the medicated kids had regressed, it was that the non medicated kids had become better at coping and regulating themselves.
Is that what you meant?
Based on my personal experience..yes. You learn to cope.
Coping is a big part of dealing with ADD/ADHD. I can say this first hand. I learned skills that I needed to learn.
I always considered my ADD/ADHD to be Gods gift to Humanity
From the article: A young man who was training to be an auto technician said that in his new career, his A.D.H.D. was no longer an issue. “It’s just that I had to figure out what I wanted to do,” he explained. “I want to work with cars. I don’t get bored doing that.”
I don't know anyone who can focus and concentrate when they're bored with something.
It would be ludicrous if it turns out this is a bigger factor than they ever considered.
There was a pediatrician in a small Upstate NY town about 30 years ago, who wrote an article for the local newspaper who was of the opinion that most kids that what the kids needed wasn't medication but activity, that most of them simply needed to get outside and burn off all that excess energy.
I noticed a HUGE difference in my kids behavior when they were on the swim team and doing practice most nights of the week. Their behavior improved dramatically. By a week after swim team was over I was ready to move out.
Solution: 40 minutes morning recess and 60 minutes for lunch and recess.
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I went to Catholic school in the 1960s. We had morning recess, lunch recess and afternoon recess. No one had ADHD.
**I always considered my ADD/ADHD to be Gods gift to Humanity**
I just blame everybody else for being too focused.
When someone is telling me something that they feel I need to know, I slow my mind down, and if within 15 seconds they can’t keep my attention, I have to disconnect and let my mind speed back. lol
Same here.
Mechanical engineer
Maybe so. Some people sell their ADHD medications like street drugs. So, even students who aren't diagnosed with ADHD buy those meds from other students and take them, and some people share their ADHD meds with their friends.
Excellent article. Of course, many people have been sounding the alarm for years about this fictional “disorder” and the medications prescribed for it. But the “experts” keep insisting it’s real.
The article reminds me of a book written years ago: ‘Myth of the A.D.D. Child,’ written by Dr. Thomas Armstrong. He was sounding the alarm 30 years ago.
Yep. A relative who was a schoolteacher told me that parents receive more government assistance when their child is diagnosed with these conditions. She said she always refused to sign the forms the parents brought her. The parents would argue their child had ADHD, and she would say she’s not signing anything because she doesn’t believe in it.
That sounds worth looking into.
There’s a book called *The Brain’s Way of Healing* by Norman Doidge, which ought to be able to be had at the public library, that is a fascinating read about a field called neuroplasticity. In the last chapter of the book he addresses issues like autism and ADD/ADHD and other options for successful treatment besides medication.
He noted that often (I’m not sure always) there’s markers of inflammation of the brain and he suspects that plays a role in it all. Makes me wonder if the vaccine connection might be legit but for a whole different reason that most people suspect. That it’s a result of the immune response, which can result in inflammation.
He also wrote *The Brain that Changes Itself* which we got out of the library and found so interesting that we went out and bought a copy.
Thanks for the reply.
My son works in IT Security and does very complicated coding that takes hours of concentration on the smallest of minutia. He says he’s worked on the smallest of details for 18 hours at a time before he solves them.
The ADD drug allows him to do this.
His elementary school wanted to put him on drugs when he was in the 3rd grade b/c he didn’t want to sit and color or sit for story time. We said NO at that time. Didn’t seem right to drug up a small kid so he could color or listen to stories. Glad we didn’t go there.
Now he was able to make an informed decision after researching the issue and speaking to doctors he trusted.
He says his life is 100% better.
It sounds like that book might've been way ahead of its time. Many articles today are talking about inflammation in the brain as a cause for a wide range of issues.
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