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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aren't all 6 year old kids hyper? Having taken adderall since I was about 8, I think it should be illegal to medicate kids that young. It completely stripped me of my personality, it didn't help me do well in school and I don't remember a lot from after I started taking it. I only started doing well in school (university) when I stopped taking it.

Some kids are just really hyper. It's their child personality. If you work with it instead of medicating it away, you might find yourself raising a great person. [/quote]

OP here. I'm guessing you aren't the parent of a SN kid?  No, some kids really *are* that much more hyper than others.  Our DS was a danger to himself and others when he was unmedicated.  We didn't go a day that some well meaning stranger would comment "whoa - he is really a handful" with a pitying look.

Further, it was literally impossible to "parent" our son before he was medicated.  He was too hyper and couldn't sit still or process instructions because his brain was going a mile a minute.  Once we started medicating, it was amazing because he could finally "hear" us for the first time.  This was also the advice of all the behavior therapists we talked to, who said a 4-7 year old boy can't access the behavior tools you give him if his brain can't calm down.  [/quote]

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