Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. What is this? This is ,in my opinion, a hoax running in to deceive people. It is a medical topic, not my field at all but I have a point here. Medics are trained deceivers to teach lies upon the masses. Some are aware and some are not. If no one is sick then they do not make money. If no one is sick then they need to make us sick so they can make money. How strange does that make you feel? The goal of medicine should be prevention not curing. Curing has become the byproduct of the health business. I sound pessimistic but I only sound. I chose to tackle this topic outside of my field because I can comprehend why such thing is happening in the first place. Medical practicioners who are honest enough will tell you this. They go to school for so long for us to trust them with their expertise not necessarily because they know how to cure anyone. The ADHD hoax bubble may burst, it may be painful or healing but some things need to be addressed. As a teenager, I had a lot of energy but I was the scared brave type (I still am ,I won't pretend to be someone I am not). I had a creative mind but I was not able to use it much and it frustrated me because we were taught to follow rules. Same rules that get people to wear masks right now. I was the type to question why the most boring subjects sometimes appeared to be taught on Mondays. Mondays were depressing sometimes. But because of my shyness, I was able to use certain classes that allowed creative activities as a way to assess the learning process of the students to express myself. Those were language classes for me. The ones that didn't make me feel bored. I was waiting for those classes and really learn from them. I see a lot of people talking about ADHD and I do not understand why it is a thing. I did not have ADHD , I was not diagnosed with it but what I say is that it is misnamed for something else. That energy made me engage in creative things so then it helped me a lot with all that was being a teenager. What most people do not know is that schools are designed to assess you constantly. Are you creative, are you more practical ,are you diligent ,are you a thinker , are you outgoing , are you reserved?. Over your school years, they keep a record of you to gauge how far you will go in life. I was sort of an ovni to them. I was not the type you would hear in class but I would use my papers and homework as a way to express that creativity. I once had a Spanish teacher named José, great guy and passionate about teaching Spanish. He had a reputation of being smelly. I was sitting in the front of the class but I soon realised it was cause he was passionate about what he was teaching that got him to oversweat in his classes. In one of his classes, he told me once that it saddened him that I was not participating in class because he thought that by me not saying much, I had probably more interesting things to add to the class. That marked me up to this day. It was probably true. I was terrified by the idea of diving more into it. I was at a age where I had to decide if I wanted to go the science way, socioeconomic way or arts and literature way. I had to decide between following my heart or reason. Classes like those made me braver to speak Spanish today. I ended up choosing the artsy path because of teachers like him. These kids who are diagnosed with ADHD do not have that environment around them. They experience with short temper because they cannot identify or even verbalise what it is they are feeling. ADHD is the suppression of creative energy. All the symptoms people described could be alleviated by the same child or adult trying to identify what it is they want to do. It is the subconscious rising up to the conscious mind saying "I think there is something that you would like to do but you cannot bring yourself to do it, I will try to guide you into finding what that thing is". It could be biking to school or write the school newspaper if that is still a thing for example. When I read symptoms attached to the "disease" that makes me laugh because I could have been diagnosed with it and it would have ruined my life. I would have lost my self esteem completely. I would have never have had the courage to be more artsy.The idea is that it is something that is in conflict with their living environment. I don't mean anything unconsiderable like smoking or doing drugs let's be clear here. The conflict is rising when the child is questioning the system he is living in at a young age when it may happen for some in adolescence. I had teachers that allowed me to be creative in class. I had to learn to allow myself to try it out. The next thing you know I am writing blogs on here. I guess it proved to be something great for me. Some children go through this at three ,four years old or a bit older.
If the education system is not capable of telling the parent the truth ,they will send your kid to see a doctor if there is something wrong with them. For me that thing was create more art and think more creatively in my day to day life. If I had followed a more practical way of living my life, being diagnosed with ADHD would have been the next step. What saved me from all of it in a way was that I made a decision to follow my heart to do what brang me joy. It clashed with my environment at the time but I knew I had made the right choice because teachers from different grade levels have told me the same thing. I reckon it was obvious I was truly interested in those subjects. A child at four years of age does not have the ability yet to phrase those thoughts and feelings out about themselves because they are not aware of it yet. It is the parent's job to look at their kid and sort of know what kind of person they seems to be, look at what they are interested in where they are at home etc. A doctor diagnosing ADHD is not helping but delaying those sorts of interrogations upon themselves. Is it fair for them to take medications to fix an issue that is not there in the first place?
