Actually, autism *is* medically related to ADHD/ADD, and I have ADD (not ADHD), so I have reason to be concerned.
(I am currently dealing with ADD without using prescription drugs, but I can certainly feel the effects of the drugs: my brain does what I tell it to do. What a lot of people don’t realize about ADD drugs is that they are the same drugs most people use to BECOME over-excited: amphetamines. The fact that there is an opposite reaction in ADD patients means that there is definitely something real there.)
So, you’re impulsive. When did this become a “disorder”? During the ‘80s as part of the war on men.
Men are impulsive. Boys are impulsive. Boys are easily bored.
Know what got my son on the juice? Staring out the classroom window. Know what that got me? A pointer along the side of my head.
It doesn’t matter if your life is happier with the drugs. Happiness is overrated. It doesn’t matter if you are more able to complete tasks. You are more easily controlled. This is a perversion of medicine for an agenda.