[Qem]

Now I fear something similar is happening at schools, as children get overdiagnosed with attention disorders. When I was small, I think it was better accepted as a fact of life that it was hard to make children sit still in a traditional school setting. Instead of fixing school, now we are trying to fix the children with drugs. In a setting with lot of medicated children, tolerance for previously deemed normal child behavior is diminishing. Parents freak out if their child isn't behaving as well as his/her medicated peers.

[AccountAccount1]

Yes, this is troubling. I'm generally not against medication, but giving it to children without exactly knowing how it affects their personality long-term is a very gray area.