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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ADD is alarmingly overdiagnosed. 5% is the upper limit of valid diagnosis, but in actuality 33% of young boys are being diagnosed. That means for every 6 people on here who have been told their son has ADD, only one of them actually has the condituon. That is a potential of 5 boys being given amphetamines unnecessarily.

These parents are claiming their boys being on stimulants are a "Godsend", "miracle", and "life-changing". Well no  sh*t captain obvious. Anyone taking a powerful amphetamine is going to see amazing results. Your results wont be so quick if you put thr hard work in as a parent and help guide yiur child through normal behavior challenges kids go through Of course now you have possibly permanantly altered your sons brain chemistry which carries long after exposure has ceased and this is assumingthry dont become addicts. Amphetimines should be a very last resort for those "real" 5% of actual ADD patients.

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The problem I have with people like you is you've created an environment in which a large percentage of kids struggle, then you turn around and attack parents for trying to help their kids.  The hard work is making fundamental changes to our education model but that hard work is out of the reach of most parents.  I know at least one person who went and created her own school but I think we'd all agree that most of us aren't going to be able to do that.  I know other parents who've pulled their kids out and are homeschooling, but again, many of us need to work to generate a paycheck.

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