Re:Not a disease (Score 1)

I believe that the hyperactive can also apply to the mind not necessarily the body and what the appearance is on the outside. Talking with someone in the learning center at my college they explained it to me like a desk that everything the mind is paying attention to is on. For me it's like there are many inputs from many different places all at once, and as it is possible to shove everything off the desk to pay attention to one thing like zeroing in on a video game (in my case really interesting problems that I feel I can solve whether it is a social situation, system for doing everyday tasks within the school, home, office or where ever) but if there isn't some thing to zero in on like that its like a game of trying to pay attention to a lot of things all at once trying to find patterns, links, interconnections and the like so the mind is able to bring things together from all over and put them together in some cohesive form.....when this doesn't happen the mind keeps searching

About the meds though, its really hard to say what is best overall meds can help a lot but imho trying to learn coping skills is a better way to go I was labeled LD in elementary. I received good grades anyway but had to go to the resource room and that helped a lot I think, but there was still the label when I just thought differently, its more a matter of how we teach people who learn this way as opposed to them not fitting in. In fact, I would argue that ways to teach that are very helpful for those who learn like me would be helpful to more people than just those like me. Part of the learning style was very one on one.....yeah it would cost a lot more for to have all the youth of the world learn in this fashion but the education quality going to every youth would be astounding and I believe produce a higher quality of life after the education system is done with them