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My 50yo brother is a case in point. Highly-educated and intelligent..Underemployed, disorganized, lone wolf, constantly losing things, forgetting things. How different his life might have been with support when he was young.

Or not....sometimes I think one of the reasons ADHD is so readily embraced by parents is that it seems to excuse so many of the shortcomings that held them back. This is no different than any parent who tries to relive life through their kids and do it right, this time. Oh, if only I'd had adderall when I was young, I would have finished some of those projects, gotten organized, made friends, and I wouldn't feel like such a failure today.....[b]except what you don't know and what we all don't know about our medicated children, is what a brain will be like after 30 + years of medication that began when said brain was still forming. [/b]

Has it every occurred to anyone that everyone wasn't meant to be focused, organized, surrounded by people, etc.? Everyone isn't meant to do well in school or have a high-powered job that fully utilizes all their skills and makes them delirious with glee and IT DOES NOT MATTER.

Why must we have to destroy a generation to realize our folly? [/quote]

Wow.  You really sound hinged.  My kids are lucky you're not in their lives.[/quote]

Actually, sounds like a pretty valid point.   One wonders if it won't be many of these heavily medicated at a young age kids who become unhinged, sadly. [/quote]

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