The effect of stimulants on the brain is to stimulate it.
For those who need it it makes mind-numbingly boring stuff such as homework (as opposed to reading history books or creating elaborate formulas etc etc) less painful.
I don't know about you but I personally have seen some examples that have gotten significantly improved lives because of it.
If you don't know this stuff first hand, please refrain from making broad statements about it.
BTW, I'll give you this: one of the most interesting explanations I saw was that ADHD is very overdiagnosed - and at the same time underdiagnosed.
Some people get ADHD meds that shouldn't have, others struggle for years because some people have irrational fear against stimulats.
Can we try to avoid moving that needle and instead try to lower the errors on both sides?
> If you don't know this stuff first hand, please refrain from making broad statements about it.
Unless all the kids illegally buying ADHD meds to do better in school when they have not been diagnosed with ADHD (and adults doing the same, for that matter, to do better at work) are doing that for no reason, I'm pretty sure I'm correct that amphetamines improve performance for most everyone, and that distinguishing between ADHD-and-improved-on-meds and not-ADHD-and-improved-on-meds is not trivial.
I was replying to a post that read:
> If they're on stims in particular, and the meds actually improve their behavior, then the cause most likely isn't insufficient PE time.
I object to that being proof of much other than amphetamines making most people perform better in school, without commenting on whether ADHD is a "real" thing (I'm not even sure what it would even mean for it not to be "real", given the state of our understanding and diagnosis of mental disorders). "We gave the kid amphetamines and they improved, must have had ADHD" is dangerously misguided.
For those who need it it makes mind-numbingly boring stuff such as homework (as opposed to reading history books or creating elaborate formulas etc etc) less painful.
I don't know about you but I personally have seen some examples that have gotten significantly improved lives because of it.
If you don't know this stuff first hand, please refrain from making broad statements about it.
BTW, I'll give you this: one of the most interesting explanations I saw was that ADHD is very overdiagnosed - and at the same time underdiagnosed.
Some people get ADHD meds that shouldn't have, others struggle for years because some people have irrational fear against stimulats.
Can we try to avoid moving that needle and instead try to lower the errors on both sides?