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My son.
My youngest son, now 17, was just passing his exams in the early grades. He has always been a super chap, obedient and respectful, but with a wandering mind that found great difficulty concentrating. My wife is a teacher and we both were pretty anti Ritalin and Concerta. Our boy was diagnosed as ADHD and we resisted any medication for a while until it became apparent that he was falling behind. We decided to give the meds a trial run for a few months. After the first day, his teacher approached my wife and said that she doesn't know what happened, but Matt was a new boy. He was no longer jumpy in class and was concentrating for the entire school day. My wife let her in on the trial, and Matt was closely monitored. He will be in his last year of high school next month and his grades have gone from barely passing to above 80% in Maths, science and computer science 98%. The are all above 75%. He has been advised to study Actuarial Science by the assessment professional we consulted to last month.
My wife says that he is one of the very few pupils (she taught him in grade 7) who has really benefitted from these meds in her 30 years of teaching. It is also very good for his sport, so he even takes it on Saturdays when he plays rugby or water polo. The only bad thing is his appetite deserts him while he is under the influence of the drug so we get him to eat a very big protein-rich breakfast before he takes his pills in the morning to last him through the day.
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