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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Working with sp ed students, I would say if your child can be successful in school without medication then by all means do not medicate.  However, if they cannot be successful, or struggle a whole lot, then trying medication is a good idea.[/quote]

Even if a child can succeed in school without medication, there may still be major benefits to medicating him or her. I have inattentive AS HE & was not medicated growing up. I did very well in school [b]but really suffered emotionally because of my symptoms & my self esteem took a major hit[/b]. Looking back, my childhood & teenage years would likely have been a lot happier & I almost certainly would have entered adulthood with a lot more self confidence had I been medicated. My day-to-day life is so much less frustrating now that I am taking Adderall.[/quote]

What were some of the things tha were affected?

I ask because DD struggles with friends - one example specifically  is not following through if they ask her to do something.
She doesn't call or text with an answer and I think they will soon stop asking her.

SHe has mild ADHD - Inattentive.  We don't medicate as of now but I think we should explore...[/quote]

Different poster, but I could have written it myself. When it came to friends, I also wasn't great about following up, but the really core issue was that I struggled with making significant connections with people. I had lots of casual friends, but not really any close friends. ADHD can make it difficult to focus in conversations because it's so easy for you to get distracted by an intrusive thought, or so fixated on one part of the conversation that you can't move on when the conversation does. The impulse control issues also create an issue if you can't help blurting out the thought in your head even when it's not the most socially-appropriate thing to say.

I also had significant self-esteem issues, because even though I was able to cover pretty well for my screw ups, I knew I was screwing up all the time and was always waiting for other people to figure out I was a screw up. I did well academically, but I always felt like I wasn't doing well enough (which I know now is because my work wasn't reflecting everything going on in my head, even if the work was good). The sense of never being good enough and worrying about when other people would also realize I wasn't good enough was ever-present. As far as I know, though, no one else around me (parents, friends, teachers) had any clue what I was feeling inside. And of course I didn't talk about it, because talking about it would guarantee that people would realize I was a screw up and not good enough to bother with.[/quote]

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