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[quote=Anonymous]My kid was diagnosed with ADHD in second grade.  By high school, he had mostly stopped medication because stimulants worsened his (severe) anxiety and difficulty eating and sleeping.  He also worked to cancel the extra time accommodations for SAT and AP tests because sitting in a testing room without eating or moving around for 6 hours wasn’t practical for him.  By college, he no longer had ADHD prescriptions, but still dealt with severe anxiety and difficulty sleeping (often went days without sleeping at all as a freshman, and when he’d come home for breaks, he looked awful).

I’m sure there are wealthy people who abuse diagnoses.  There are also people who do have ADHD who make different choices (meds vs no meds, accommodations vs none).   I tend to withhold judgement because I’m aware that sometimes people are choosing between multiple bad options.

FWIW, DC was a good student and a standout athlete in HS, attended an “elite” SLAC, graduated summa and with honors and is now applying to grad school.  Being able to achieve stuff doesn’t mean kids aren’t dealing with real symptoms. [/quote]

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