I have ADHD..have never had medication..struggled somewhat...but just a lil FYI for you. I have graduated college with a 3.5 and now i am applying to grad school. I own my own successful business. I have been accepted and worked in many prestigous organziations and have won scholarships...its not the end of the world. its a learning difference. And yes despite my many successes in my life at 23 I have been told numerous times that i literally would amount to nothing becuase I cannot prove myself in a research paper or test. Preserverence is the key. Most of my cousins and brother have ADHD and one is in graduate school now and is known almost world wide literally at the age of 25 for his art and the other is in college in couer de alene. My brother will just be entering college in the fall (he struggled in high school, he has a 2.2 GPA) but he'll preservere. None of my family members have been on prescription meds. Actually its just recently that many of us have decided to start meds.