OMG, this darn article.
I think I was about six. My parents, and this is the early 70s, thought I was a little "off." I wasn't nearly like every other kid. So my parents put me on a plane and flew to me to see a lot of "experts." I recall this one time where my parents and myself were put in like a 8 x 8 room and the doctor left. I sat there for like two hours and didn't move an inch as the doctors watched me.
See I was told I was "hyer" or as I guess would be called ADHD these days. My mom likes to joke that I knew what was going on and I sat still just to mock her. My dad always just said "relax, he is a boy."
I will openly admit I was a tough kid. Hard to parent. If you told me that stove was hot, don't touch it I'd touch it. I always did the thing you told me not to do.
I was a pain to be around. Heck I still am. I am sure why it is I am still single :).
But I hate to think we have to drug kids like myself, just cause we're "different." Again read this darn article.
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I am a totally functional OCD dude. It has taken me a long time to understand how to deal with that. Or that I am wired different then most. I like to think I am unique not cause I am "special" but cause all humans are a little different.
My parents were told I should take this or that drug. A lot actually as I am told.
That doctor got laughed at. My parents were not going to drug me. My parents understood that if the worse I get is when you invite me to your house I might want to organize it, well that isn't a bad thing. Maybe strange, really fucking strange, but not bad!.
I look at what we have today, all the drugs and I just want to cry. I am 100% sure if I didn't have the parents I have I'd be on a few drugs. Makes no sense to me.