I didn't bookmark it, but someone said on here the other day that somebody has compared brain scans and gifted children have an area that develops in other children at age six that doesn't develop in gifted children until age eleven that looks very similar to adhd. Probly should have bookmarked or cut and pasted the specifics because I can't find it now. I need it because I was trying to explain asynchronisity and if you wait until a kid's mature enough to quit talking and do his work without being reminded then you've wasted way too long waiting to statt teaching them academics. You know, the maturity will come for most with time, education won't come with time but only if it's given.
But yeah, medications have their place. They all have side effects and they're not candy. Who knows? Maybe they really are just getting better at diagnosing it. I've read here that the best rule of thumb is that the medication is for the child. If the child is suffering and the medication helps it's right. If the child is making everyone around him suffer the medication is not right for that situation. To me that sounds reasonable, but of course everybody can make their own judgement for their own family.
