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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well she is right.

Your poor parenting choices are preventing him from getting help. He needs medication. Get it for him. That's what a good parenting decision looks like.[/quote]

How do you know the kid needs meds when you haven't met the kid or are probably a doctor with this expertise.  OP, ignore.[/quote]

pp here. Because a lot of people are reflexively anti-drugs and are shortsighted that way. Read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Weve-Got-Issues-Children-Medication/dp/1594487545[/quote]

Every diagnosis is different. My child has ADHD and Asperger and we did not tell my mother for the same reasons OP is dealing with.

She is not on medication. The doctor who diagnosed her said we could consider it if and when her school performance showed she needed it.  Then she  got all 4s in DCPS elementary school, and now has 5 As and one B at Deal. She has never caused a disruption. We have to remind teachers to follow her 504 because spacing out and withdrawing feels like the opposite of a problem when you've got 23 kids to manage.

Medication has helped many friends (and my ADHD husband occasionally takes it as needed per his own doctor) but it is not a first resort and it's not always necessary.

We don't yet know what long-term damage a decade or more of medication will do to adults; the data simply isn't there yet. It can absolutely be a gift but any good clinician will tell you to take it on a case by case basis. [/quote]

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