[unclebucknasty]

I'd encourage you not to be too hard on your parents when looking back. Very difficult decision to make and it took a lot of guts to buck the system and pressure to medicate; opting instead for behavioral approaches.

Giving a growing brain a psychoactive drug is serious business.

Also, of course, you are looking back with perfect hindsight. What if you'd had a serious adverse event, psychosis, or otherwise negative outcome? No one could have known, and that was a risk your parents had to weigh. In fact, your brain now is different than then. Perhaps your parents helped you to dodge a devastating bullet by withholding psychoactive drugs at a younger age.