Did you know that there are specific tests to determine if someone has ADHD and that many doctors require an ADHD coach in conjunction with medication here in the United States? Many of these coaches teach coping mechanisms like ways to stay organized or eat properly or get to bed on time.

My brain and my works don't work the same as your brain and your works, but I still have to live in a society where my mind is different.

I understand the feeling of wanting to classify mental illnesses as something that can be fixed with hard work and determination, also that you have had a bad experience with this topic in particular. However I believe it is an unhealthy attitude to dismiss medical and scientific research based on our personal experience.

Allow me to convey this: I have known many people who take and do not take medication. I am extremely impressed by those who no longer take medication. The amount of discipline they have would drive them to conquer entire continents, if they didn't have to focus so much on having ADHD. For those on the medications, they are working very hard already.

Mental illnesses have a huge stigma please try and stop building these stigmas. Even if you are against children taking medication, which is a fine (and different) position to take, I urge you to remember that people are people that's all they can be.