"parents of kids who are legitimately diagnosed and medicated for ADD cannot help but reel from the sheer ignorance on these threads."
Indeed.
So far it appears that 1) I did not spank my daughter enough; 2) I'm a bad parent; 3) Our school system FORCED us to put her on drugs; 4) My daughter's teachers just wanted a roomful of drugged children; 5) Our pediatrician was in cahoots with the drug companies; (Strange thing that those same teachers and doctors never demanded that my son take medications); 6) My daughter (5'7", 107 pounds, 12 high school letters for running) would have been thinner, more active, and better behaved if she had been homeschooled; and 7) There were no people with ADD in the 1960s or none took Ritalin, which means I must not actually have existed back when I was supposed to have been in 3rd through 7th grades.
yes all of that. mindboggling. anyone who has been through the process of dealing with a child diagnosed with ADD and the attendant testing, expense etc. really loves hearing the ignorant expound on their poor parenting, laziness etc. my 12 yo daughter is ADD, not disruptive, not hyperactive, just has an inability to attend which combined with her learning disability causes her to be unable to learn if she isn't medicated. she is being raised by the same parents, held to the same rules in the home, and eating the same food as her siblings. yet they are high acheiving students and she is LD with ADD. let the ignorant expound about that which they know nothing.