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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, my husband was at a service academy and now that we both know more about ADHD from our son, there is no way my husband doesn't have it.   I think the structure helped him a lot.  He taught himself habits to stay organized, at least at work.   Home is a whole other story, but he has been working on it.  (He's 55, so...).   He has been unmedicated this whole time.   He was infantry though. [/quote]

Structure, highly defined career pathway with clear supports to next steps, high degree of oversight and accountability, interest and adrenaline can sometimes make up for ADHD meds. My kiddo cannot learn to pick up his room. He would learn it (the hard way) if he were in a service academy. I chose not to be his drill sergeant on that in order to preserve our mother-son relationship.

He is not doing a service academy but a paramedic program. He would forget critical items for school, but he will never forget paramedic stuff because the interest, novelty, urgency and challenge all help his focus. The real life practical hands on teaching and high degree of physicality help. OFC, YMMV since ADHD is a wide-spectrum.

I think one thing to member is that getting into a service academy in no way guarantees that you will become a pilot, so you better be happy with a wide-range of military outcomes because if you choose that path, you may not actually have that much control over your final career.

I think commercial passenger aviation also has a lot of rules about medication, so check that out carefully. [/quote]

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