Canadian children prescribed antipyschotics in record numbers

Watch Generation Rx. It'll scare the bejesus out of you. The dangers of ritalin and prozac far outstrip any benefit that that they deliver to children. Often exceptional children are diagnosed by'teachers' as suffering from ADHD. Part of this is because schools ended streaming and lumped the exceptional in with the mediocre and challenged. teaching to the middle ends up boring the bright and frustrating the challenged. They act out...and then get labelled ADHD and put on speed.

I always found it annoying in class that I would understand something and be done in one class but still have to suffer for two more classes because everyone took too long. Unless I was actively taking notes I was basically falling asleep from boredom.

Much to my teachers' dismay I created my own forms of stimulation when bored. I eventually outgrew it and in junior highschool, we still had streaming which presented more challenges. They wanted to put me on ritalin in Grade 3 but both my mom and grandmother disagreed with them. My mom was a psych nurse...and had me tested , and my grandmother, an RN, who as well as being a chief surgical nurse had also spent time working in a prison infirmary and seen the effect speed had on adults. Both of my kids are/were similar, but my eldest is now a straight A student who is fluent in fluent in English and Mandarin and can function in French and Japanese. Our youngest speaks, reads and writes fluently two languages and is in an advanced math class, yet his thinks he's hyper because he doesn't sit still for 45 minutes without asking 'why or how', and sometimes finds his own way of doing something.

Yup, we have created a system that views being different as a defect, what they fail to understand is that a lot of these different people are like that because they get bored or simply have no interest in the subject. Supposedly Chad Kroeger was diagnosed with ADHD in school but when he played a guitar he rapidly passed people that were playing longer than him. Parents want a perfectly 'normal' kid which means excelling at being average while making them believe they are a genius.