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I was like a lot of folks and thought it was all bull…then I started researching and listening to a lot of podcast of ADULTS that finally got on meds and their lives changed. We held off for about 10 years with CJ and finally went and talked to professionals.
We started CJ on meds last Fall and within 3 weeks we were getting notes and calls from teachers about what’s changed in his life? We didn’t know how to take that or respond until we learned he had went from not paying attention or participating to being the first to raise his hand and knowing most of the answers. His average in Language Arts went from a 69-70 to an 85!!!
Now it did take months to get his meds right and he calls them his “smart” pills. So yeah, meds work and behavioral issues improve along with their attention. Our biggest “fear” was turning him into a zombie and losing the CJ we know and love. That’s where interacting with the professional is key. It doesn’t make a kid lethargic or quiet, it brings out their true potential.

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I have two sisters, not mine, living on both sides of me. they have 2 kids each and are all affected by ADHD, Autism, or both.
The boys on the north of me were screamers and couldn't be calmed down, the father would be outside in winter to 10-11 every night trying to get him to get calm enough to go to sleep...the girls south of me would hit, kick, and bite anyone that they didn't want to listen to, the older one would run around the road with no clothes on., both were feral.

the boys were put on meds when they started school, and they became calm, and pleasant humans, lol
The girls?, no meds, still fighting, screeching, and just miserable little $%!#^

So meds do work,

"So meds do work"

I live on Coccain and Alcohol for a good many years.

I think your first sentence is correct in that she just didn't want to be there.

On range day another girl shot with a decent group, but they were all to the right and high. She was shooting right handed. At first I thought maybe it was the rifle. In class we always do the test to see which is their dominant eye. She said she was left eye dominant. I gave her a left handed 22 to try shooting left handed. She had a nice group with 4 bullseyes out of 10 shots from the sitting and prone positions.

We always check which is their dominant eye in class before they ever get to the range. She was right eye dominant. Since they all wear shooting glasses, we thought about taping a piece of paper in the left lens so she would be shooting only with her right eye. As I said, she failed the class getting 17 wrong out of 50 multiple questions. One some of the questions, instead of marking one of the answers as a guess, she wrote, "I don't know".

if you want to do taping of the safety glasses stand with your back down range , have her lay the gun on your shoulder and look at the target , then you move a peice of clear scotch tape so that she can no longer see anything but a blur from that eye when she looks down the sights , it forces the eye behind the sight to take over without effecting peripheral vision. a little square of tape is all that is needed.