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Originally Posted by Gentle_Ben
I think the term ADD is thrown around so loosely nowadays that it's become somewhat synonymous with someone who's just not completely focused all the time and serious about everything. It seems almost trendy to say you have it and laugh about it. I was diagnosed with it in my young teen years. I never took meds and instead my parents put me into a private school where the class sizes were a little smaller and where I'd be able to get more attention from the profs. Throughout the years, and with a lot of hard work I went from being a pretty poor and scatterbrained student to getting a 4.0 gpa in university and then a masters degree. I gradually grew out of it / learned to cope with it.
Anyways, at the very least, the whole phenomenon of the recently very popular real or 'imagined' ADD, is quite interesting.
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Great approach by your parents!
I had a friend who said he was also diagnosed as a kid, and his mother never put him on meds, she refused. I have to say, he does not seem ADHD
AT ALL from anything I can see.
I think he was just kind of a hyper kid.
This goes back to what Odie had said about Dr's prescribing things so quickly.
Just like Docs who prescribe antibiotics for a cold ... it makes no sense. I had this discussion with my Nurse friends the other day as well.