I'm Free! And i'm Normal?

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All my life i have been limited by the regular people who were afraid that i might spread my wings to fly (not literal). And they would be left to feel inferior, or worse yet, they might not think for me. I am 36 years old, one of the origional Ritalin, dexadrine, etc... experiments. What i learned was that the Baby Boomers are a selfish Generation who often took the easy way out of their duties as parents. Give the kid the drug to calm him down, i don't have the strength. Lazy!! !
I also believe that the Ritalin experiment slowed the forward progress of mankind. It is interresting to note that i am not of unique mind, in my search for logic, truth and understanding, in the deepest sense. Also that i am not one of only one who's passions run deep and has a singular drive and focus, and an attention for ALL parts of my passions.
Thank God for you, all of you!! !

Hello and Welcome, SB2

Although many feel that medication has been helpful to them, I also feel (like you do) that they have been over-used and abused when it comes to children. Many Parents, Doctors & Teachers find it easier to medicate children rather than work with them and try to understand how children learn and think.

I touch briefly on this subject on my website in reference to Thomas Edison. Thomas Alva Edison - who had 1,093 patents for inventions in his lifetime, was too disruptive to his own classroom to the extent that his mother finally pulled him from conventional schooling and home-schooled him. I wonder what drugs they would have forced on him in this day and age? Would it have diminished Edison's creative talents any?

I think alot of times, human strength and abilities come from the very, so called, "human weaknesses" that someday we wish to eliminate in people.

At times I wonder, is it possible without our challenges and obstacles we would lack our very individuality and our ability to think original thoughts? Would our very own creative essence be lost in the quest for conformity and perfection?
It's a scary thought.

Sorry about my social miscue to follow;

That was excellent conjecture and certainly food for thought.

You cannot possibly be from Indiana!

HA

Perhaps there is more than Corn in Indiana?

yeah, there's also a veggie called whirled peas.

i can only imagine

The drugs definitely compromised my creative abilities. There are a lot of things that I became unable to do. They are pretty subtle, and for some reason, although it was during the Space Age (remember the Space Age?), even my own mother had a lot of contempt for my talents. There also seemed to be fear and hatred. It's really crazy.

not crazy. I view this as validation. People fear the most what they do not understand. What ultimately controls people is what they fear.

This and what they do about the fear are really crazy. One of the things that bothers me the most is the way that the "mainstream" puts all of its worst paranoid fears up as validation for legislation and other actions that destroy lives and property. Then they do their dirty work through stealth, secrecy, and lies. They do violence against those who would reveal their lies. They also destroy the reputations of honest people. They do things that I cannot defend against before for all the intelligence that I might have, I can't decipher what they are actually doing, except parroting "ideas" that were moribund a long time ago.

Your beginning to illicit my passions. That is politics.

Remember one thing when you look for answers about reasons why, on topics that seem to elude the logic.

Start following the money.

As far as the fear and mainstream goes you are 100% correct. Take George W Bush for example. How is it possible that he was elected a second term?

One answer fits: FEAR

i will finish by stating my political affiliation. I am neither Republican nor Democrat since i feel that they are basically one in the same. When the bottom line is stated they will ALL satisfy those that contributed the most to their campaign financing.
This is the reason for my political stance, i call it Anti-incumbant.

Until politicians can honor their (OPEN AIR) campaign promises to the people, then my view is that the voter should disallow them from becoming career politicians. ONE and DONE, that's the anit-incumbant slogan

Yeah, I have some idea where the money trail leads. I can't seem to get myself to act like that, which is why I have no income and a crappy place to live. Wanna go darkside these days, just act like everyone else. Evil is banal.

Good luck with that dark side thing.

You won't be successful at it though. All the rest of the people
have had a life time to practice their craft. You and i have only been trying to understand. Besides, when people finnally get it who's going to be left to set an example?

I've been on Ritalin, because I was originally misdiagnosed with ADD (I've even been on television about it when I was 7- on 60 Minutes in Australia... Some footage was shown of me having a tantrum in a recent follow up story a few weeks ago we refused to be a part of).

It worked fine to begin with, but there many short term and long term side affects that caused many problems. But then that's only because I wasn't meant to be taking it anyway, and apparently it works for kids more accurately diagnosed, so I have no opinion on it really. It probably works better for some kids more than others.

On that 60 Minutes story, one of the kids was someone we knew a long time ago, and Ritalin seemed to have turned his life around, when I knew him he had many bad problems, but then again he also had a sh***y family- his mother was a fruitcake, his father later came out to be gay and got a divorce, his brother was also diagnosed... On one hand you could argue that's to blame for his problems, but then again it could also be to do with running in the family- it could be genetic in other words, so I really don't know.

But I'm not going to be judgemental on other people diagnosed with ADD. I can't pretend to be an expert on the subject.

Doesn't matter so much whether the diagnosis is right as how the individual responds to the drug. Perhaps an accurate diagnosis increases the chances of a positive to neutral response, but even a true ADDer can have issues or sensitivities that can make Ritalin or other stimulants clearly do more harm than good.

I am ADHD, among other things. I can think of at least two other dx's that could of (one knowingly is) easily been triggered by medication. I was on Ritalin when little, for my ADHD/ADD (practically same thing, don't feel like arguing about it). It killed my imagination (the medication), and it took me forever to get it back. When I was 7, I moved. I went off the medication and wound up living in an area with a poor school system. I went form private Catholic school to a school that basically didn't teach me anything at all. I could've been a complete moron and made it, so ADHD was no problem. But in this time, I developed OCD. Could've been a side effect of Ritalin, or not. I moved back to a good school system for 5th grade. My mom homeschooled for 3rd, and I really am a pretty smart person. Regerdless, I almost instantly failed. *Bang* Parents divorcing, depression, anger, rage, puberty, Adderal, Prozac. Funny contradiction though; while Adderal (like Ritalin) drains creativity, Prozac is known to increase it. This is when I started writing poetry, really good and depressing poetry. Anyways, I evantually started having trouble sleeping and a rapid sporadic heartbeat at night while in bed. I thought it was part of puberty, but I later learned it was the Prozac. All the while, I was experiencing middle school. When 13, I was dx'd AS. Halfway through middle school, I slowly took myself off Prozac. Then Adderal when I entered high school. I refused to be dependent on medication, and still do. When I started failing high school, I was tryed out on the current Adderal knock off. Tourette's is what came with the added focus. I should mention that near the end of middle school, Adderal was giving me a side effect I have yet to see listed. It's a bit too personal to mention, but it may have something to do with my hypersensitivty to certain things. After the incident in high school, I haven't taken anything since then. They tryed a few other pill ocmbinations on me, and I said screw them I'm through. Now my brain chemistry is probably ruined for the rest of my life, but at least I've gained back a lot of my natural creativity and am going to pass high school (I hope). I now advocate against the use of any brain neurology altering drugs, we don't know enough about the mind to start screwing with it. It saddens me that people fool themselves into thinking that pills are a safe answer to their problems, when therapy and better (especially better understanding) parenting works much better. Rant over.

I probably have at least two other rants just like that buried in this site somewhere.

Thank You for sharing your personal history. Perhaps your history can save the future hustory of others.

That was one of my main intententions. To illicit information which supports my accusation that, the pursuit of greed by the drug companies and their lap boys (shrinks), better yet drug pushers, are putting innocent children at risk, and allowing parents the right to be lazy. Not a fair price to pay.

But one severe testimonial is enough, i need more. The cuurent problem is that the winners in this debate support the pushing of drugs with false statistics. Set up to be biased to suit there ends.