i hope things have worked out well for you.
They have, thank you, due to my own self-motivation to make something of myself better than that which my circumstances would dictate, and despite the attempts of so-called professionals to make me a perpetual whiny dependent. Of course, if they had drugs in their arsenal back then, and not just propaganda and misplaced confidence in their abilities, they may have won, and I might instead be a drooling couch-potato government teat-sucker somewheres.
Make no mistake - millions of kids are on Ritalin and similar drugs because the drugs make them complacent and docile, not because it corrects any supposed problem they have. Maybe a fraction of a percent actually do have some problem, but overall it is far better that that fraction go untreated than to turn millions of perfectly healthy children into zombies.