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[quote=Anonymous]I have taken Ritalin for over twenty years with no problems.  
Organizing is helpful, though it often helps people who have to live with the ADD person more than the ADD person, but it doesn't help you focus.  For those without ADD, imagine being at a bar or a loud party and you are trying to hear someone talk to you, but it is hard to do so because of all of the other noise.  The medication is like giving the person who is trying to talk to you a microphone.

I was off of the medicine through junior high and high school, because ADD was not as commonly diagnosed in the 1980's and my parents didn't want me to be stigmatized.  I wish they had.  I was lucky to be accepted to a program at a good university that specialized in students who had high SAT score and middling grades, or the reverse.  Students who would otherwise have fallen through the cracks because a student who is pulling a 3.2 gpa isn't a student that seems in trouble.  With the medication my college gpa was a 3.5 and my law school gpa was a 3.7.  [/quote]

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