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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Instead of experimenting with drugs, how about experimenting with diet and lifestyle changes. Cut the processed crap out of their diet, get them outside and limit electronics. Improvement will happen, you need and should make the effort to change the direction of your child’s life now. Either you teach them to be dependent on drugs for the rest of their lives or not. Your choice. [/quote]

Please stop your discrimination. ADHD is not caused by bad parenting from parents who aren’t making the “effort” to “change the direction of children's lives”. Processed food, lack of exercise and too much electronics are not the problem. ADHD is a neurogenetic difference. Despite exercising, 2 hours a day in a tough sport out in the natural environment, my DC, who had little time for “electronics” and ate thousands of calories a day and was deemed by his doctor to be in top physical shape - was still coping with the effects of ADHD.

You would never tell the parents of a child with a physical disease that they shouldn’t take medicine and would be cured if they just ate better and stopped playing on their iPad.  You would never describe a parent trying to get the right mix of beta blockers and steroids to control POTS as “experimenting” with drugs.

You are perpetuating stigma.

Shame on you. [/quote]

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