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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree that girls can have ADHD too - but I do think that the numbers of medicated boys these days is staggering and really sad.[/quote]

You think that based on your appalling ignorance . Please STFU.  Parents of kids who have moderate to severe ADHD will tell you that medication has, in many cases, save their kids' lives. ADHD has serious social and emotional consequences for kids, including lots of behaviors that cause their peers and teachers to judge them really negatively, not to mention academic problems.  People with untreated ADHD have higher rates of suicide, alcoholsim, and drug abuse.

The anxiety that my SECOND GRADER suffered due to not being able to control his outbursts, to sit still or to focus on school work due to to ADHD were horrible.  Low dose medication on school days transformed his interaction with teachers and peers, but more importantly, it totally changed his experience of school.  As he got older, taking an even lower dose, short acting med on weekends when he had lots of homework prevented him from spiraling into an anxiety meltdown whenever he had more than 20 minutes of homework.  Meds allowed him to focus, start getting some work done and realize that an assignment that his ADHD brain told him would take several days actually would take like a half hour.[/quote]

I'm the PP and I did not mean to suggest - and I'm sorry if I sounded as if I were - that medication isn't a really good solution for some kids - necessary, life-changing, good! I was just bemoaning how elementary school seems to be so sedentary and punitive these days, leading to little active kids - often boys, often boys of color - getting flagged as disruptive and "bad" and getting put on medication to make them more compliant. [/quote]

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