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[quote=Anonymous]Another poster who agrees that you are looking at the good old days through rose colored glasses.  Three of my brothers suffer from ADHD.  All three are high school drop outs and two of the three have not yet gotten beyond their substance abuse problems even though they are well into their 50s.  I can guess which kids in my class also had ADHD and all had substance abuse problems.  I know of only one who managed to get and hold a good job and that was military active duty.  Even still, his personal relationships suffered.

I'm glad that those that you know didn't suffer.  But, I don't think that is the norm.

My ADHD child is medicated.  With everything else that's on his plate in terms of functioning, I am glad we were able to eliminate some/most of the self esteem issues and to improve his functioning with the use of medication.  Due to medical reasons, medication was not even a consideration for the first few years after the diagnosis, so we experienced trying to manage without the medication and we saw his self esteem, ability to function and ability to learn both with and without medication.  I cannot imagine how teenage years would have been otherwise.  [/quote]

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