I was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 10.
I was on about 4 different types of adderall. It was fairly beneficial for a time, then it would slack, and we'd up the dosage. I got up to the highest that was healthy and even after a time of that their effectiveness declined, not to mention they severely hampered my behavior, attitude, mood, and personality. Overall I could say it was a fairly miserable time.
I went off and back on 3 separate years. The first year worked wonderfully by School standards, Second declined, and third year it had no effect. I'm a lot more comfortable without the damn things.
And as my Logic dictates, pills and medication are a crutch. Often employed to others who have a disability, I realized that at age 12. My mind worked the idea for years, and I found a few things to be true for myself. If you absolutely, need Medication then that makes you obsolete or the more politically correct term is socially-dysfunctional. So at age 14 I decided I would conquer ADHD like a relevant human being, and that was turning up my interest factor.
Though ADHD has it's cons, it wouldn't be a continuing trend amongst generations if it didn't offer benefits.
For example, if you put a ADHD in a room and forced him to write a report that had no relevance, he will most likely end up staring at the wall, playing with a pencil, or sleeping. (In a INTP's case most likely will end up, in a vain attempt, to disect the work for something interesting or retreat to their thoughts.)
Put a person affected by ADHD into a room with a selection of reading material that are suited to his/her taste and they can read for hours upon hours. In these situations they don't have a Attention deficit, they have a Attention Surplus. Though I may add INTP are very intriguing, because they will disect a booc and once they see a theorum, interseting symbol, or ETC. They will put the book down, and begin to search for other books that hold information on the subject then continue on to read them all and analyze them all while looking for inconsistenties.
Of course this could just be me.
