Why are people talking about ADHD like it's a super power now? It's not even a real thing. A mix of high energy boys & smart kids are often incompatible with the basic govt school structure, & rather than admit school sucks, administrators needed a way to label them defective so they could drug them. It's not real. And the drugs are all horrible for you.
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Absolutely. It reminds me of the movie Harrison Bergeron but with pills instead of bands.
Don’t agree it’s “not a thing.”
Do agree it’s over prescribed but that’s any drug/disorder.
Know many friends who have a very difficult time concentrating without a drug to aid.
They aren’t lazy or dumb either.
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One of the only good things my parents ever did for me was refuse to put me on speed when the teachers said I was bored in class.
My folks refused to do so as well. I checked all the boxes…hard
ADHD is real. I use stoicism to overcome it. As an adult I don't get my brains dopamine reward for finishing a chore for example. I am not medicated but know people who are and are getting excellent results.
I have a job that is highly technical and requires pure critical thinking for the whole time I'm there.
Traits requred:
Massive adaptability
Strong abstract reasoning
Fast learning and apply what's learned
Tenacity
Curiosity
For me, its a perfect roll. I have massive job satisfaction
Sugar junkies looking for speed to cure their mood swings
- Over-diagnosed…totally.
- Over-medicated…in many, many situations you betcha.
- Not a real thing?…wouldn’t go that far.
Agree with the bigger point that schools suck more often that not.
You speak facts!❤️🔥 
As a parent with an ADHD kid, I can tell you it’s quite real. Unless you know people with ADHD then you don’t know what you’re talking about.
It’s like assburger but lack of attention or affection instead of never satisfied attention or too demanding attention.
Causes the same false cores.
Amphetamine works great work deficits and cocaine great for burgers.
Although meditation and mindfulness works when understanding the false core driving the mechanism.
It’s about the way the psyche processes emotional conditioning.
The only way to cure those is to poke ‘em until they implode. Done with intention to harm and the reaction is autoimmune to defend the self, but sone to cure, the only way.
I have "ADHD"
Feed them steak & eggs, & stop feeding them sugar, softdrinks, grain products, & seed/veg oils & then set them free on something they are interested in.
If you're gonna convince them to fix their diet tho, you need to spend some time on the subject. Everyone needs to understand the syptoms of carb withdrawal & be committed to sticking to it for a month or two. Sugar addictions are a hard thing to break.
Shawn Baker, Kelly Hogan, & SteakandButterGal are all good sources of info. If you want a milder appraoch "It Starts With Food" is a good read. But I am most clear headed with steak & eggs & not much else. Almost always <30g of carbs in a day, with rare exceptions. If I eat any carbs they usually come from plain whole milk yogurt.
My wife has it, and with the help of a TV commercial convinced me to be more compassionate.
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ADHD is a misnomer. It’s not they the person cannot pay attention, but they pay too much attention to one thing, making it difficult to switch to another or pay attention to multiple things at once. Combined with hyperactivity it seems as though there is lack of attention, but it’s really the hyperactive part that makes it seem so. Under the hood it’s still too much attention to one thing.
This is also my firsthand experience exactly.
There’s three different types. Not everybody with ADHD has mania phases, where they only pay attention to one thing 💜
From what I’m gathered, “inattention” is just mischaracterized hyper attention. But I’m still learning, take that for what it’s worth.
My kid has the worst of it, overactive, constant context switching, inability to stop moving around.
He’s been getting better on a regular protein supplement treatment. No meds.
Inattentivness is mostly diagnosed in adults, hyperactivity in kids 💜
Hyperactivity usually includes an “obsessivness” part with it more 
Every single item from both sides sounds accurate for my kid.
How’d y’all approach it? Medicine?
The process of actually getting diagnosed and on medicines (which cost crazy amounts, if they’re even available) is really difficult here.
Probably my next challenge after getting my driver’s license 💜
No meds. Some studies about supplemental protein helping and first hand accounts from other parents, so we are doing that. Seems to help!
That’s great to hear 💜 Thank you for standing up for ADHD also, constantly hear it getting slandered 🤷♂️
Just people who have never seen a kid with it and don’t understand how it’s different from a “bored kid”. Pure ignorance, bless their hearts.
It’s real, and when it isn’t managed properly it is difficult to maintain a classroom. However, in my experience too many teachers automatically assume a hyper or unfocused boy has ADHD. They aren’t properly equipped to assess it properly, don’t reflect on how they are teaching, and simply recommend an assessment and medication.
Thanks for your perspective
I’ve been working with parents and students for 15 years, and for what it’s worth, it will get easier.I have found that every child is different, and there will be a lot of trial and error, good days and bad, good weeks and bad weeks. In time, you and your child will develop strategies that make it easier for you to manage. Personally, I would try everything and use the strategies that have been researched, and then if I’ve exhausted all of those avenues I would explore medications. I’ve seen both work. At the end, it’s a personal decision and only a parent knows what’s best for their child.
If you ever have any questions about their experience in school, or if you want to run by what strategies the teacher is using, please let me know.
It’s a real thing.
To anyone is this thread:
Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté is a great book on ADHD.
(It’s def real #[2] , but you’re correct that schools and our society prefer to suppress annoying symptoms with meds. For some they’re a life saver though.)
It also manifests as anxiety. In schools, students that aren’t hyperactive tend to get missed.
ADHD-Inattentive is me in a nutshell, never treated it properly. I am also suicidal,depressed and anxious as fuck. Only thing that keeps me going is btc , my obsessive trait helped me in this case btw.
In no way am I suggesting adhd is fake, and as someone who’s attended special needs schools for dyslexia, I have experienced peers who struggled greatly with hyperactivity.
I think if you look at the American numbers of the prevalence of use of Ritalin from 2001 - 2021 shrinking from 4.2% to 0.5% that you aught to get very used to millennial Americans describing this over prescribing as “fake”…
adderall peaked in 2015 with 7.5% of 12th graders which in 2021 is 1.8%
The diagnostic codes have changed over this same period of time… ADD with out hyper activity is no longer a thing. You mix this with the prescription prevalence stats above and you have a bunch of American millennials who used to be billed to insurance as add with out hyper activity and now billed as some generic generalized anxiety disorder. So to them, this former diagnosis in brevity was “fake” and partially driven by big pharma.
Just like the movie Harrison Bergeron were they purposely dumb everyone down to make everyone equal. Pretty scary stuff.
It’s definitely a real thing. Lots of experience both personally and professionally.
I feel the same even though I also have been diagnosed with ADHD.
So I guess the Problem lies within calling everything that’s different ADHD nowadays.
But to be honest the Meds do help me to just be „adjusted“ to the strange system. And even though I would prefer a different system where it would be acceptable to be out of the norm. I have a more realistic approach and think it might be easier to adjust to the circumstances instead of starting a revolution. (Of course I want the World to change but I have to be willing to change myself too if I ask the world to change.)
You know what I mean?
P.s. really like your posts seems like we would be great friends IRL
It's exacerbated by the Prussian school model, but it is a thing.
A good thing that has provided a competitive edge in high pressure environments, but it is still an identifiable set of functions.