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I just hope this doesn’t end up making it more difficult for people who benefit from these medications to get the help they need.

I stay this as an adult with ADD. It wasn’t until I was diagnosed at 32 years of age, and got treatment that my life and career finally turned around. I’ve written about my experience on my blog. I hope you’ll check out out and at least consider that ADD is real and that these medications do help some people.

I hope they don’t become difficult or impossible to get in the future. I don’t relish going back to the way things were or the way I functioned (or didn’t) before.

Teachers should be mandated to classes, to qualify, to educate, and to work with add children. This should be part of their ongoing education mandatory classes, and there should be less strict guidelines on who can be in special education. Let the teachers decide not the government!

An ADHD History Lesson

I may be on the verge of going into activist mode; to the point that I’m seriously considering sending a membership check to CHADD or ADDA, or any organization that steps up and counters some of the madness that seems to be prevailing over both r…

For starters, thanks for stopping by my website.

What puzzles me here is how you inject my political beliefs on such a topic. Last I checked, ADHD was not part of a political party.

Second, if you are going to quote me, please do so in context. No where in my piece do I conclude that sugar consumption = ADHD. Like you, I simply quoted reliable sources (as you did) that make a very convincing argument that the increased sugar intake of our generation will in no doubt have a negative affect on the human body. As one who has children (as you) and has worked with other children for a number of years, I can tell you that I have seen the difference between children with well-balanced/low sugar diets and those otherwise. I also know of personal stories where children who were diagnosed with ADHD are rid of this “disease” by lowering sugar content. That is my evidence. Black children in particular (for many reasons) tend to have the worst diets in comparison to other groups.

Finially, I am of the belief that whatever works for you, go for it. But don’t strike down other equally researched information just because you either disagree with the messenger politically or just don’t want to agree at all.