Nuked by my toddler today

Helen0725 wrote:

I applaud you for your comment;

My point is that people who say that ADD or ADHD or any other condition is just something that doctors make up to label over-active kids are most certainly misinformed. They need to spend a day with the child to realize what we go through each day.

I sure hope you're not implying that's what I said, because it certainly was not. What I was suggesting is that when I was hyperactive, I was required to stand in a corner until I calmed down. And if I didn't, I got increasing punishments until I learned who was in charge: not me.

But valid cases of ADD does not negate the fact that many children are not receiving the guidance and discipline they require to learn to manage their own lives and develop into an adult. Too many are instead taken for treatment, given something that modifies their brain for them so they don't have to learn to do it themselves.

Don't even try to suggest there aren't parents taking the easy way out, or Doctors that wouldn't write Rxs just to placate the paying customer and submit the insurance claim, or kids that aren't being neglected. This is not one in a million either.

Maybe this is a personal subject for you, but don't make the mistake of defending the guilty while stating your own innocence.
And your mother was dealing with a child exhibiting symptoms of withdrawal. This had nothing to do with whether he should have been on it to begin with, which I'm also not disputing. Just don't cite it as evidence.

I can't continue this here. It's definitely not game discussion. Move to OT and we can chat more, but I don't want to hijack this thread.