Why have parents gone from skeptical of medicating their children for ADHD to trusting of it? Joseph_E_Davis5 offers his explanation
, or self-interest regarding future goals or consequences. And the stimulants—still the main drug of choice—are defined as directly producing a better self, one with self-discipline and drive.
Consumer ads promoting drugs for ADHD perfectly demonstrate the “self” theory of ADHD. In an Intuniv ad, for instance, the better self is depicted by a little boy, who, on medication, can remove the monster costume that was all that anyone could see. In a Concerta ad, a mother tells us that now that her son is on medication, she can “see Jason, not his ADHD.
Now each child has a responsibility, increasing with age, to be the sort of person who can “manage herself,” find her own motivation, and handle herself in a wide range of social situations. The sort of person who can “make” herself into the child she somehow knows her parents want her to be. The sort who canAll this self-making and regulating and motivating might sound daunting for a. But, according to Barkley, it is perfectly natural.
,” integrate “this knowledge with information about the current context” and so “identify the optimal action for the situation.”circuitry is firing normally, she prioritizes and carries through with her own best interests. Those who operate differently, then, very likely have a brain dysfunction. The way to find out, as has always been the case, is with the medication. When ADHD is suspected, a visit to the doctor is likely to result in a diagnosis and a recommendation to try a course of drug therapy. If the drug “works,” if it improves behavior or increases productivity, the evidence for the brain pathology, now conceived in terms of abnormal EF execution, is presumed to have been supplied.
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