what’s wrong with….

by doreen peri

Posted to Utterances on 2002-06-04 16:10:00

Parent message is 199503
…. jumping around and not being able to focus on one thing at a time?

i’ve been like that all my life!!

i am still like that!! i’m a multi-tasker! I can talk to three people at once, write two poems at the same time, fix dinner, talk on the phone, and type a reply right here….

i started my own business after teaching myself discipline and skills in many areas of my field….

when i was your age, i was all over the place doing a zillion things at once… without that training ground i would never have accomplished some of what i have accomplished today

of course these are my opinions, k&d….. but i also speak from experience of seeing kids on the meds and comparing that with being off of them

my step son is a creative musician…… a pianist….. at 16, they still had him on these meds….. he hated it… i hated watching him zoned out and zombied… sure, his grades were better…. but he wasn’t his animated, theatrical, creative lively self and his music suffered, too

it was a good day when we accidently “lost” the pills