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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, your DS needs to demonstrate a different set of behaviors at home than at school. He might not need meds when he's at home because there he just needs to be himself. But when he has tasks he has to fulfill that require his attention or at least some type of physical self-control, that's when the meds really are needed.

If you truly want to experiment with this, wait until this summer. Talk to his doctor about how to wean him off the meds. Put him in an environment that's similar to the classroom. See how he does. The doctor may have reasons for not doing this, though; messing with meds really isn't the best idea since those take a good while to kick in, so if you stop them, it's hard to get him back stable again.

Letting him go off his meds now, with his chattiness and touching habits, might well just create so many problems in the classroom that will be hard to undo. [/quote]

So now "chattiness" and "touching habits" need heavy-duty medication?  I find this whole thread very sad and scary.[/quote]

If your child goes to school, then yes - medication keeps your child out of the principals office for sure.

Not sure why you find this sad and scary as this is the reality of MOST of the people on this forum.  do you have a SN child? can you share your secrets on what non-pharma techniques have worked for you and your child? or are you here just to make the rest of us feel lower than many of us already do?[/quote]

I don't know anything about your particular kid, but I do know that ADHD is vastly overdiagnosed and overmedicated in the US. So when I read things like medicating a kid for being chatty and handsy ... yes, I think that's probably a bad thing. [/quote]

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