Also don't forget that drugs have changed the life to the better for so many on the ADHD spectrum.
Though drugs are only part of the solution for most people with ADHD, it's almost always what enables other kinds of intervention to be effective.
For me, medication doesn't work too well. I tolerate it just fine, but it just isn't as effective as for most people.
It has still changed my life completely. I can accrue life experience in a way that was impossible before, probably as I had basically no perception of time before medication.
Maybe my daughter put it best when she (on her own volition) got diagnosed at 17'ish: "It great to not have to feel like you are going to die tomorrow." With which she meant that when you perceive time passing, you can also perceive the future ahead.
It's not the only thing that changed, and not all change has been easy. But the diagnosis has still been one of the most important things in my life, even getting it as late as at 36 years.
Though drugs are only part of the solution for most people with ADHD, it's almost always what enables other kinds of intervention to be effective.
For me, medication doesn't work too well. I tolerate it just fine, but it just isn't as effective as for most people.
It has still changed my life completely. I can accrue life experience in a way that was impossible before, probably as I had basically no perception of time before medication.
Maybe my daughter put it best when she (on her own volition) got diagnosed at 17'ish: "It great to not have to feel like you are going to die tomorrow." With which she meant that when you perceive time passing, you can also perceive the future ahead.
It's not the only thing that changed, and not all change has been easy. But the diagnosis has still been one of the most important things in my life, even getting it as late as at 36 years.