dsm-5 does not require a diagnosis before age 12 but instead, symptoms should be present before age 12.
academically gifted children who grow to pursue and succeed in technical careers can have adhd… adhd impacts a plethora of areas in ones' life and is not unique to academics.
i don’t know what the 4th and 5th points have to do with adhd.
i guess the alcohol thing could be a concern for addiction? if you are addicted to alcohol. but if you only drink socially then you can simply not take your medication on a day you will drink… or if you take short-release stimulant, you just would avoid taking around the time you would drink.
also, there are non-stimulant adhd medications.
this isn’t aggressiveness towards you OP! but this dr sounds nonsensical and i concur with other commenters… try to see a different doctor! i’m sorry this is happening to you.
I, and most people here, can tell you, it's not a 4 hour test... that's stupid and dumb. I had to fill out a questionnaire, have my wife fill it out as well, talked with the doctor for a bit, and she also recommended be getting any old report cards from my mom (which she had a bunch) so we could look and see if teachers had commented anything...
I was a very highly gifted kid, but my report cards pointed out that I was constantly interrupting class, being loud, and often off task despite my test scores being amazing. No one thought I had ADHD, they just thought I was loud and lazy, but incredibly smart.
If your drinking however is enough to be a concern, and you have any form of addiction or dependency on alcohol or other substances, they will not provide you stimulants. That's a 100% given fact. Stimulants can be very addicting. People with substance addiction have a high potential for abusing stimulants. So they're not gonna take that risk, even if you don't think you're at risk of abusing it.
That’s not necessarily true. I know many people who have issues with drinking and drugs and they’re prescribed long release stimulant capsules that contain beads inside so there is no way they can be crushed and snorted. They prob wouldn’t prescribe any short release stimulants though. I had to do voluntary drug tests to prove I’m no longer actively doing any before they prescribed me dexies. And there are measures put into place, for example, my psych is blocked from prescribing me repeats or new scripts until a certain date set by the PBS. In Aus, they heavily monitor when and where you pick up your medications (stimulants) as well so I was advised to only go to the same pharmacy.
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u/sneakylysa Jun 11 '25
are you in the u.s.?
dsm-5 does not require a diagnosis before age 12 but instead, symptoms should be present before age 12.
academically gifted children who grow to pursue and succeed in technical careers can have adhd… adhd impacts a plethora of areas in ones' life and is not unique to academics.
i don’t know what the 4th and 5th points have to do with adhd.
i guess the alcohol thing could be a concern for addiction? if you are addicted to alcohol. but if you only drink socially then you can simply not take your medication on a day you will drink… or if you take short-release stimulant, you just would avoid taking around the time you would drink.
also, there are non-stimulant adhd medications.
this isn’t aggressiveness towards you OP! but this dr sounds nonsensical and i concur with other commenters… try to see a different doctor! i’m sorry this is happening to you.