Posted by Sad Panda on June 3, 2004, at 0:32:36
In reply to Re: my 12 yr old was prescribed ritalin today.. » zeugma, posted by Chairman_MAO on June 2, 2004, at 19:57:26
> I never said that I agreed with the post, heh. It's just food for thought. I have ADD too, and being unmedicated is misery for me as well. But that does not mean that people do not use it as an excuse to medicate children to make them docile, even when they can concentrate just fine.
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>How could Ritalin calm down a child & make him docile unless they have ADD/ADHD? If you give a normal child a stimulant, wouldn't it make that child hyper & prove that they didn't have ADD?
Cheers,
Panda.
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