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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine don't. Sure, they can be as forgetful and scatterbrained as any 5-10yo boys - one more so than the other, for sure! But that doesn't mean he needs medication.

But then, my perspective is influenced by my chosen profession. I'm a pilot. The FAA considers ADD/ADHD disqualifying, even for a private pilot.  And it's a lifetime diagnosis, there's no "growing out of it". So getting a diagnosis to help a kid get through middle school means he can't ever get a pilot's certificate (unless he can prove the original diagnosis was wrong - not that he grew out of it or learned to accommodate it, but that the diagnosing doctor was wrong - and if you think there initial evaluation takes a lot of time and money, that's nothing compared to trying to overturn it). It makes me sad to see SO many kids getting medicated, knowing that it cuts off options later in life. I know that it really is needed in some cases, but I think there are a lot of grey areas where parents seek a diagnosis in order to get extra support at school, to bring their kid from the bottom quartile to the top quartile (and helping set new expectations for what is considered "normal"), not having any idea that it will follow that kid for their entire life.

So, getting medication would have to be an absolute last resort, can't function without it, kind of thing.  And we are nowhere near there.  Sadly, I think a lot of people get caught up in the idea that a kid is failing it he isn't at the top. And with so many kids on medication, the median bar keeps going up, increasing the pressure to get meds so the kid can keep up with his medicated peers.[/quote]

Ha, I'm sure the public will thank me for getting my kid diagnosed.  Lord knows you don't want him flying a plane.  He's so inattentive that he once sat in a kitchen full of smoke from a fire on the stove and he didn't even notice because he was reading a book.  I walked in and saw this and could not believe he didn't notice.  He was 15.  You definitely don't want him flying a plane. You probably don't want him driving down your street unmediated either.[/quote]

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