[SteveMcKing]

Fake. Disease.

[bnelson44]

It is just a way to control boys in class without having to do actual work.

[Gay State Conservative]

Fake. Disease.

My sister,a very hard working,productive,middle class gal was recently diagnosed as having it at one of Harvard Medical School's largest teaching hospitals.

And,no,she's not gonna apply for SSDI or anything like that.

[SoftballMominVA]

Tell that to my 19 year old daughter who has fought with ADHD and depression her whole life. Nothing fake about it. Nothing.

[freedumb2003]

I know you have and will get lots of "testimonials" about how Ritalin saved people's brother/kid/cousin/friend etc.

It is all crap. In my youth, I was what we called "hyperactive." Thank GOD they didn't call psycorps on me to medicate me into lobotomy-like semi-comotosity.

I learned how to concentrate, how to act properly, how to behave, how to succeed.

Nowadays it is 15 minutes from "problem child" to medication. So much easier than parenting (God rest my Mom's soul who gave me the examples to last my life).

You have to wonder how these "ADHD" kids would have done 30 years ago.

[oyez]

Fake disease

BS. I've had this mess all my life. Its like you mind doesn't hold on to it tracks for long. If school classes only lasted 15 minutes, I could have been a Rhodes Scholar. I've tried every discipline you can think of. If the subject matter isn't bang 'em up my mind goes out in left field somewhere. It like some one has a TV remote control pointed at you and they keep changing the channels. Its a bitch.

It may not be a disease in the clinical sense but is it a condition to be reckoned with.

[TChris]

Fake. Disease.

Nope. Those who have it and/or have children with it know better. Yes, there are some who are mis-diagnosed, but that doesn't support the conclusion that all diagnoses are false.