Why are people medicated for ADHD? All people are born differently. I thought that we should embrace everyone for who they are. The psychiatric term “disorder” seems wrong on so many levels. It leaves me left feeling that there’s something inherently wrong with me, where as before I thought what’s considered wrong was actually just considered as being different, and something that you should actually be proud of. If society were as inclusive as it likes to make itself out then “disorders” wouldn’t exist. How am I supposed to be proud of myself, if I’m seen amongst others, including the entire scientific community, as some sort of degeneration? How can I trust myself with anything? How could I feel anymore alienated? How can I just blow off an entire scientific community, and tell myself, that I’m perfect the way I am. Why is there a “right and wrong” with concerns to how people are born? I’m left with the thought, “Since people with ‘ADHD’ are often annoying to people, drugs are viable an option for them.” And that seems wrong, but it also seems like you can’t expect people to readily be unbothered with someone who’s constantly bouncing off the walls. It’s almost a stalemate. People will also say that the medication is just there to help ‘ADHD’ people focus, but if we are being honest, we can claim that these psychoactive drugs also take away the real you. ‘ADHD’ should be embraced and worked with. Fitting paths should be explored for these people, because far too many times they are left funneled into this “accepted standard” with drugs, guilt, and therapy, and it’s not right. Clinical perspectives are inappropriate, since essentially they pathologies and then out-group the person; they use ‘normalizing’ therapies to enforce conformity and, in so doing, increase the risk of the patients well being. It’s no wonder why ‘ADHD’ is associated with higher risks of depression and anxiety. And, it also explains why I appear as closed off. Why would I want to express my real self, which is of course entwined with ‘ADHD? I suggest that there should be a radical shaking of the system…individuals being respected for who they are and what they can do without emphasis on the clinical obsession of ‘normal’. There needs to be a shifting of values to take into account the ‘ADHD’ individual’s right to be himself or herself. The problem is that whilst ever it’s a system run by the so-called ‘normal’ individual (and for that sort of individual) – that change will never come.