As a matter of fact, we did. The first day on his meds he came home and told his Mother, "MOM! I did ALL of my math! And it was EASY!!!"
We did not come to this as an easy decision. When his teacher first suggested that might be an issue, we took him to our regular family physician who said after not even examining him (and I quote), "He looks normal. But if the school thinks he needs a prescription, I'll write it."
We left and never went back. We found a new pediatrician who in the first visit spent two hours with him. She interviewed us, interviewed his teachers. The diagnosis was a two month process.
We were never "pulling our hair out." As I said upthread his issues weren't bad behavior, but distractability. He was never the squirmy type. It was never a matter of getting him to "calm down."
The best way I can explain it is imagine hundreds of brightly colored ping pong balls bouncing around your head.
Not only are you distracted, but you’re told to not only line them up (thought sequences) but pick out the blue one and put it behind the yellow one (organization).... or you’ll be punished (anxiety).
SHeesh! And you can’t even get them to stop bouncing! It’s chaos.... Until something outside pulls you away that is as fast and distracting as the ping pong balls (computer games) just an example, that’s all.
Then ask him again if he ever thought that perhaps he thought you might be disappointed by the fact he was “different.”
School shouldn’t be traumatic.
I have thought for a long time that a study should be done of those diagnosed children who still remember being separated apart from their “peer” group by being singled out this way.
Actually, I do wish everyone (both pro- and anti-) would stop equating all ADD with “hyperactivity”.
It’s mostly about whether they can/will concentrate. The “hyper” only comes in with ADHD.
My nephew was not “hyper” although pretty active. In fact, he acted like a slug when he was being “bad”. He just refused to work when told to. Seemed to disconnect.