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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the really short and skinny kids on adderall or Ritalin? My son’s doctor has brought up possibly trying Ritalin but I worry about it affecting growth. He’s a solid kid (not skinny) and he’s about 5’2” or 5’3” and just turned 13.[/quote]

This is purely anecdotal so I don’t really know how meaningful it is, but I have fraternal twin girls and one of them has been on various stimulants (though not Ritalin) to treat ADHD since age 7. In the first 7 years of their lives, there was never more than a 1/2” difference in height, and most of the time, the difference was 1/4” or less. At the time that my dd started stimulants, she was 1/4” shorter than her twin. Three years later, she was 4” shorter (still 50th percentile for height) and it was obvious that the twin who wasn’t medicated was experiencing many physical changes due to puberty, while the medicated twin was not. They just turned 11. [b]This past year marked the end of strangers asking if they’re twins because they no longer look like they’re the same age[/b].[/quote]

This most likely has nothing to do with the stimulants & more to do with the fact that they're fraternal.

People expect fraternal twins to have the same identifiers as identical twins but the physiology for fraternals is different. [/quote]

Bingo!

I'm a resident who also focused on biology & this poster is absolutely correct when they say that the differences in your twins doesn't have to do with stimulants,  it's because the physiology between identical twins & fraternal twins is totally different.

Fraternal twins are always going to have noticeable differences & some of those differences can be drastic in size, weight, height, appearance, etc.

The differences have ZERO to do with stimulants & everything to do with them being fraternal. [/quote]

It’s a relief to know that science has proven, beyond all doubt, that stimulants have ZERO effect on growth. Please point me toward that proof so I can refute everyone who thinks stimulants may inhibit or delay growth AT ALL.[/quote]

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