Comments on: Prescription for Education http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/2009/09/04/prescription-for-education/ Living & parenting without the rule book Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Cooper Zale http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/2009/09/04/prescription-for-education/comment-page-1/#comment-4121 Cooper Zale Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:10:02 +0000 http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/?p=1392#comment-4121 Matthew... thanks for your comment and sharing your experience. I think the key to your situation is that you are proactively choosing to continue the Adderall, after clearly understanding the effects. Hopefully you are not a round peg trying to squeeze yourself in a square hole, but if so, you have a very good developmental reason to do so. Our son Eric took Adderall when he was 12. He's now 23. He left school at age 13, never went back, and has unschooled since then, and now as a young adult is a wonderful intelligent, caring and well-spoken person. He has built himself a life where he apparently has no need for the medication which he admitted did help him take tests (like caffeine helps me write). But his life doesn't involve taking tests any more, just making real things happen. BTW... I would be interested if you would say more about what you mean when you say, "Peeling back reality is not something for kids to mess around with". Matthew… thanks for your comment and sharing your experience. I think the key to your situation is that you are proactively choosing to continue the Adderall, after clearly understanding the effects. Hopefully you are not a round peg trying to squeeze yourself in a square hole, but if so, you have a very good developmental reason to do so.

Our son Eric took Adderall when he was 12. He’s now 23. He left school at age 13, never went back, and has unschooled since then, and now as a young adult is a wonderful intelligent, caring and well-spoken person. He has built himself a life where he apparently has no need for the medication which he admitted did help him take tests (like caffeine helps me write). But his life doesn’t involve taking tests any more, just making real things happen.

BTW… I would be interested if you would say more about what you mean when you say, “Peeling back reality is not something for kids to mess around with”.

]]> By: Matthew James http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/2009/09/04/prescription-for-education/comment-page-1/#comment-4110 Matthew James Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:14:07 +0000 http://www.leftyparent.com/blog/?p=1392#comment-4110 I thought this was a great article, and i must say you eloquently laid out the "adderal" experience ; specifically the early journey of it. I'm glad to know your son will not be traveling farther down that rabbit hole. I myself have gone further and further ( and while I appreciate the drugs benefit ) and am still today down the upside of that rabbit hole it has become something ingrained into who and what I am , for me this is alright , for most i can see where some horrible pitfalls could come along. Peeling back reality is not something for kids to mess around with. I thought this was a great article, and i must say you eloquently laid out the “adderal” experience ; specifically the early journey of it. I’m glad to know your son will not be traveling farther down that rabbit hole. I myself have gone further and further ( and while I appreciate the drugs benefit ) and am still today down the upside of that rabbit hole it has become something ingrained into who and what I am , for me this is alright , for most i can see where some horrible pitfalls could come along. Peeling back reality is not something for kids to mess around with.

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