Re: Self Diagnosis Talk: Raise your had if you\'ve got ADD or Dyslexia
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My problem is I have a hard time staying focused on things that don't interest me. Looking back, someone should have said tough [censored] welcome to the real world. However, my mother is a psychologist and had one of her partners perscribe me ritalin. I can safely say I would not have graduated college without it.
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On one hand you say you should have been told to suck it up and just do it... on the other, you say the you needed pharmaceutical help to accomplish what many people are able to without such help.
If you really did need ritalin to be able to graduate from college, it seems to me it's an over-simplification (and incorrect) to suggest you should have just been told to deal with the real world. In the 'real world' most people don't have that much trouble focusing enough to graduate from college.
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You make a valid point. My statement didn't come across quite the way I intended.
Let me put it this way, I think ADD/ADHD is way over diagnosed and the the drugs, however helpful they may be, are not a long term solution. I think that it's something that you have to learn to adapt to on your own. I felt, as Kipin noted earlier, that it's hard to take the drugs day in and day out. When working on a professional level, it's a little bit harder than college to plan ahead as to when you should be medicated and when you don't need to worry about it.
Looking back on it, I probably shouldn't have graduated college. While I don't want to start a huge debate, I think college is not the right thing for everyone. The structured evironment of school was more of a hinderance to me. I have had 2 corporate jobs and have always known I am not cut out for life in an office. I have been self employed for about 5 years and can't imagine ever going back to a typical 8-5.
Sorry If I am rambling [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] but I the point I am trying to make is that I don't think that drugging people to help them achieve in a certain "acceptable" manner is always the right path to take.
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